Found 1 collection related to African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Joseph St. Prix was an African-American entrepreneur. The Joseph St. Prix collection consists of a ledger for a shoe repair business owned by Joseph St. Prix and Anderson Joseph, known as Joseph St. Prix, located in Philadelphia. The ledger lists expenditures and receipts for the business. The first page of the ledger contains partial minutes for a meeting, presumably of the Philadelphia Division of the United Negro Improvement Association. Additional material includes several copies of a flyer advertising the shoe repair business; a flyer for another of St. Prix's businesses, Colver St. Prix, Grocers; and a few letters and notes relating to business matters. less