Description: Frank Frances Carpenter Collection
Reprinted from the Quarterly journal of economics.
United States. Interstate Commerce Commission ; Transportation ; Railroads
Description: Written by Robert Athlyi Rogers during a time of sweeping racial change in the United States, The Holy Piby, or 'The Black Man's Bible,' speaks directly to the Pan-African community at large. Capturing hearts and minds with its message of sel
Description: Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort... contains more than 30 traditional stories from French Congo which were collected by the Folklore Society of London.
Description: Hausa Folk-lore is a book by Maalam Shaihua, translated by R. Sutherland Rattray, published in 1913. It contains twenty-one folk-stories of the Hausa people of Africa. The book is notable in that it was actually written by one of the Hausa, not a European, as is common in such books from the time period.
Description: This is a short anthology of quotes from Haile Selassie compiled by a Rastafarian group. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)
Description: Pamphlet
Description: Reprint from: the Diary and Letters of his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., 2 v., 1883-1886
Description: The photographs in the Farm Security Administration Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This U.S. government photography project was headed for most of its existence by Roy E. Stryker, who guided the effort in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937), the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942), and the Office of War Information (19...
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United States. Interstate Commerce Commission ; Railroad law ; Railroads ; Railroads ; Railroads and state ; Interstate commerce ; Transportation ; Railroads
Description: This is an ethnography of the Iboibo, a Nigerian tribe. Written by a pioneering English woman in the early 20th Century, this book focuses on the ritual life of women. Despite the naïve colonialist attitude, it presents a female perspective w
Description: Signed at end: E.C. Benedict
Description: This collection of oral folklore from coastal Georgia was assembled during the 1930s as part of a WPA writers' program, under the supervision of Mary Granger. The accounts in this book, framed by colorful descriptions of the rural locales whe
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; Historical Literature; In the New York House of Assembly, March 15, 1865. -t.p
Description: This is a text from Jamaica, written during the 1920s by a proto-Rastafarian preacher, Fitz Balintine Pettersburg. The text is primarily of historical significance. Along with The Holy Piby, the Royal Parchment Scroll is today recognized as o
Description: This book is composed of a series of interviews conducted by Callaway with Zulu informants, of which only the answers of the natives to Callaway's questions are usually given. As such, it is made up primarily of prose explanations of concepts