![]() Acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. Sizes range from 14x23 to 16x20 inches, along with several 3.25 x 4.25 inch prints. Subjects include portraits of people, rural landscapes, and farm and town life, with social events predominating. States represented include: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. They were taken by 51 photographers from a wide range of backgrounds and aesthetics, from a hobbyist retired coal miner to a young photojournalist working regularly for The New York Times. ![]() ![]() These 75 black-and-white (11) and color (64) exhibit photographs were selected from 297 images collected online from the crowdsourced project, "Looking at Appalachia," directed by documentarian Roger May. Several of these letters are letters of recommendation in support of specific veterans receiving their pensions, including a letter that describes a possibly gender-fluid, gender nonconforming, and/or transgender soldier nicknamed "Lucy." There are also papers relating to Charles Henry, the only son to survive the war. Some of these letters relate to Davis' daughter, Eunice, who married an Afro-Caribbean sea merchant and moved with him to Grand Cayman Island. There are also letters after the Civil War up until 1912. These letters discuss the family's concerns about being split by the war, illnesses, deaths, politics, race, religion, and employment. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written between family members during the American Civil War. There are additional papers relating to Charles Henry Richardson's life in Lowell, Massachusetts where he worked in a textile mill and served as an Alderman. Her letters, 1870-1875, describe their life in Grand Cayman. They married in Dracut, Massachusetts, and she moved with him to Grand Cayman Island. Daughter Eunice, whose husband died while serving the Confederacy, remarried to William Smiley Connolly, an Afro-Caribbean and mixed-race ship captain. Also includes letters about life after the Civil War. The letters include descriptions of living and working conditions illnesses deaths and thoughts on politics, race, and religion. Includes letters written from Ship Island, MS (1861-1862) and New Orleans, LA (1862-1864) and material on the riots in Baltimore, MD, and battles at Manassas, Malvern Hill, Petersburg, Winchester, VA, and the Shenandoah Valley, Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, LA, Sabine Pass, TX, and along the Mississippi and Red Rivers. Two of Lois Davis' sons fought with Massachusetts regiments, Charles Henry at first with the 6th Massachusetts Infantry, and then both Charles Henry and Luther with the 26th Massachusetts Infantry. In the late 1850s two of Lois Davis' daughters moved to Mobile, Alabama and their husbands served in the Confederate Army. The bulk of the collection is made up of letters between Davis and her children during the Civil War. She had at least seven children with her first husband Luther Richardson. The mother, Lois Wright was born in Northfield, Massachusetts and died in Lowell, Massachusetts. Working-class New England family that was involved with both the Union and the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History. Companies represented include Alfred Dunhill, American Cancer Society, American Legacy Foundation, American Lung Association, American Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson, Liggett & Myers, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Philip Morris, R.J. Materials also relate to the tobacco industry in North Carolina. Materials primarily relate to smoking, tobacco use and prevention in the United States but some international examples are also present. Collection includes print advertisements, accessories and merchandise catalogs, collector newsletters, direct mailings, cigarette and tobacco labels and packaging, point of sale displays, sheet music, memorabilia and collectibles, tobacco tins, smoking and smoking cessation paraphernalia, juvenile and adult literature, research reports and articles on smoking and health and other printed materials, along with audio and video cassettes and optical discs.
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