Frederick Douglass collection

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unitid

{"value"=>"Sc MG 108", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"20577", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Frederick Douglass collection"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1859-1894", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1859/1894"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.2 lin. ft. (one box)"}], "supress_display"=>true}

repository

{"value"=>"Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, N.Y., 10037"}

date_inclusive_start

1859

date_inclusive_end

1894

origination

{"value"=>"Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>African-American abolitionist, orator, author, diplomat and public official, born in slavery circa 1817.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Ten autograph letters signed by Frederick Douglass; typescript of \"John Brown,\" an address delivered at Harpers Ferry and edited in Douglass's own hand; one pamphlet of an Anti-Fugitive Slave Law Meeting at which Douglass presided in 1851; obituaries of Douglass; miscellaneous printed matter; photocopies and research materials relating to Douglass. Substantive letters include an April 24 [1869?] A.L.S. to Downing [George Thomas?] on the appointment of Ebenezer Bassett as United States resident minister to Haiti, a post for which Douglass had been considered and which he would accept in 1889; and an 1894 letter to Rev. R.A. Armstrong written on behalf of Ida B. Wells, then traveling in Europe to speak against racial discrimination and lynchings of African-Americans in southern states.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"SCM 82-81"}

{"accession_number"=>"SCM 82-15"}

{"date"=>"1982", "source"=>"Provenance unknown", "value"=>"Provenance unknown, 1982"}

{"date"=>"1982", "source"=>"Thomas T. Moebs/Americana and Fine Books", "value"=>"Thomas T. Moebs/Americana and Fine Books, 1982"}

keydate

1859

prefercite

{"value"=>"Frederick Douglass collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"African-American abolitionist, orator, author, diplomat and public official, born in slavery circa 1817. Ten autograph letters signed by Frederick Douglass; typescript of \"John Brown,\" an address delivered at Harpers Ferry and edited in Douglass's own hand; one pamphlet of an Anti-Fugitive Slave Law Meeting at which Douglass presided in 1851; obituaries of Douglass; miscellaneous printed matter; photocopies and research materials relating to Douglass. Substantive letters include an April 24 [1869?] A.L.S. to Downing [George Thomas?] on the appointment of Ebenezer Bassett as United States resident minister to Haiti, a post for which Douglass had been considered and which he would accept in 1889; and an 1894 letter to Rev. R.A. Armstrong written on behalf of Ida B. Wells, then traveling in Europe to speak against racial discrimination and lynchings of African-Americans in southern states.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

0.2 linear feet (one box)

date_start

1859

date_end

1894

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