Items

• Photograph. Christine Moore Howell and her sister, Bessie, in front of "Christine" Vanity Parlor
  This photograph is of sisters Christine Moore Howell and Bessie Moore in front of “Christine” Vanity Parlors in Princeton, New Jersey around the 1920s when the vanity parlor opened. They would have been around the ages of 22 and 23 respectively at this time.
• Cogdell, Mary Ann Elizabeth Stevens: Watercolor with poem by Cordelia Sanders on back
  The front page features a hand-painted watercolor bird on a tree, signed by Mary Ann Elizabeth Cogdell. The reverse side features a poem written in cursive about truth signed by Cordelia Sanders circa 1840.
• The Dra Mu Opera Company presents Carmen
  Program for a concert given by the Dra Mu Opera Company on November 3, 1947 at the Academy of Music.
• Dra Mu, Carmen (photograph)
  This is a photograph of the Dra-Mu Opera Company Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia taken in 1947.
• How a Big Business Pays Off In Philadelphia
  The article “How a Big Business Pays Off In Philadelphia” about George Alfonso Price of Price Beauty Products company was featured on page 42 of Color magazine in February 1950.
• Era Bell Thompson to Christine Moore Howell, letter
  Letter from Era Bell Thompson (1905-1986), Associate Editor of Ebony Magazine, to Christine Moore Howell (1899–1972) dated November 2, 1948. Requesting answers to questionnaire. With envelope addressed to Christine Beauty Shop, Spring Street, Princeton, N.J.
• Questionnaire for the Magazine Ebony
  This questionnaire entitled “QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE MAGAZINE EBONY----November 6, 1948” is five pages long with responses to 38 questions. The responses are by Christine Moore Howell (March 19, 1898-December 13, 1972) of Princeton, New Jersey.
• The Griot Press, premiere issue (May 1992)
  The Griot Press was a minority owned and published lesbian and gay magazine.
• Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School
  This photograph of the Bethel African Methodist Episopal Church Sunday School of Pennington, NJ features nineteen children, some siblings. All of the children in the photograph have been identified by Patricia (née True) Payne (see reverse).
• Group of 1930's - 1940's Church Hats
  Church hats that would have been worn by the ladies of Mt. Zion AME Church in the late 20th century.