Image shows building collapse at 2144 North Thirteenth Street in Philadelphia. The third floor is hanging down with some furniture, including a desk and a chair, still on the floor. Many of the contents of the house have fallen to the ground.
Caroline's friend, R. Bascom writes to her about the death of his twenty-one year old brother, Alexander, who had been in the first colored regiment raised in Philadelphia. Alexander was teaching for the Freedmen Bureau in Florida, where he died of...
Letitia Still and Frances Ellen Still write Caroline. Letitia Still tells her daughter that Mrs. Bouver died on April 30, many people are sick, and a neighbor woman has died from the effects of pins in her mouth. Frances Ellen writes to her sister,...
Fragment of letter. The author (William Still?) writes concerning the poor health of Willie. The letter is very somber and speaks God coming to claim the boy. He notes that there is $10 enclosed in the letter.
Fragment of letter. The letter writer begins by speaking of the comfort of Christianity, wishing he/she were a better Christian. The writer mentions a burial on a cold, gloomy day.
Fragment of letter. The letter concerns the death of a mutual friend. The author recounts the friend's terrible bout of meningitis but makes fond remarks and praises his memory.
"Cecil Moore, president of the North-Central branch of the NAACP, is carried on the shoulders of admirers during a demonstration in response to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr."
A photo of a room in the Lovinger-Meyer home in Berlin. From the collection of Johanna Lovinger-Meyer(b. 1874), matriarch of an upper-middle class German-Jewish family. She was the first woman radio announcer in Germany. She and her family fled...
A photo of Johanna Lovinger-Meyer in 1909. From the collection of Johanna Lovinger-Meyer(b. 1874), matriarch of an upper-middle class German-Jewish family. She was the first woman radio announcer in Germany. She and her family fled Nazi-Germany...
