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VI: Subject File, 1792-1964 (continued)
Visit of Henry L. West in 1932
Liberian loan, 1920-1921
Life membership certificates
Plate
Samples
BOX VI:11 REEL 310 Lusk, Robert, estate, 1853-1857
Lyon, Ernest, consul general of Liberia in the United States, 1913-1921
McLain, William, nomination and appointment as minister of Liberia to the United States, 1850
Manuscripts
Manuscripts, articles, and reports, circa 1940-1948
Manuscript articles on Africa by Hugh Thomas Douglas, 1889
(3 folders)
Manuscript regarding early colonization efforts of the American Colonization Society
Manuscript “England and Liberia”
Manuscript “Steam Communication between the United States and the West Coast of Africa,” by E. E. Smith
Manuscript regarding Liberia by Henry L. West
Maps
Map of Liberia, 1845
Maps of Liberia, 1857, 1862
Map of Liberia by Hugh Thomas Douglas, 1889
BOX VI:12 REEL 311 Maryland in Liberia, resolutions on the death of James Hall and John H. B. Latrobe
Membership
Milton, Thomas Hector, 1937
Miscellaneous lists of names, unidentified
Miscellany
New York State Colonization Society
Overs, Reverend Walter H., 1922-1926
Oxley, Howard W., 1931
Pennsylvania Colonization Society, resolutions on the death of Elliot Cresson, 1854
Peters, John R., legacy, 1914-1919
Petitions to Congress
Plans and specifications for cottages in Liberia
“Plan of the town of Messurado, Western Africa,” 1823, Apr.
“Platt of lands Located in the Settlement of Johnsonville. . . . .”
Sibley, James L., 1925-1929
Sippel, Franz, 1924-1927
Smith, E. E., agent of the society, report of Oct. 1892
Smith, Oliver, estate, 1859-1861
State Department, 1922-1925, 1932-1936
Stevens, John, Maryland State Colonization Society v. American Colonization Society, 1868
BOX VI:13 REEL 312 Stevens v. American Colonization Society, 1923-1924
Treaties
Trust funds
Histories of
Miscellaneous
Virginia, an act making appropriations for the removal of free persons of color, 1850
Walker, Walter F., agent in Liberia, 1914-1921
BOX VI:14 REEL 313 “A West African Journey,” by Claude A. and Etta Moten Barnett, 1947
West, Henry L., 1929-1939
Wills
A-P
Myers, Margaret J.
BOX VI:15 REEL 314 R-Z
Wills and estates, printed matter regarding H. F. Worley, 1920-1922
BOX VI:16 REEL 314 Register of emigrants, 1835, Mar. 4-1857, July 3
BOX VI:17 REEL 314 Emigration register, 1820-1832
BOX VI:18 REEL 314 Applicants for emigration, 1826-1856
BOX VI:19 REEL 314 Applicants for passage to Liberia, 1856-1889
BOX VI:20 REEL 315 Laws and land records of Liberia
Travel pictures of Liberia by J. Buttikofer, 1890
“The One Thousand Agents,” circa 1856
“An Essay on the Late Institution of ’The American Society for Colonizing Free People of Colour of the United States'”
BOX VII: 1-10 REEL 316-323 VII: Miscellany, 1835-1935
Unidentified indexes and memorandum books, printed matter, and newspaper clippings.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically.
BOX VII:1 REEL 316 Unidentified indexes
Miscellaneous memorandum books
Map, survey for Booker Washington Institute, Kakata, Liberia, 1935
BOX VII:2-3 REEL 317-318 Printed matter
BOX VII:4 REEL 319 Printed matter
Newspaper clippings
BOX VII:5 REEL 320-321 Printed matter, including issues of African Repository, 1835-1892, and Liberia Bulletin, 1905-1909
Clippings
BOX VII:6 REEL 322 Newspaper clippings
1892-1893
1893-1894
BOX VII:7 REEL 323 1894-1895
1895-1896
1896-1898
BOX VII:8 REEL 323 1898-1899
1899-1901
1901-1903
BOX VII:9 REEL 323 1903-1905
1905-1909
1909-1910
BOX VII:10 REEL 323 1913-1916

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