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BOX VI: 1-23 REEL 300-315 VI: Subject File, 1792-1964
Correspondence, manuscripts, reports, legal papers, and other material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX VI:1 REEL 300 Acquisition of land in Africa, 1821
Acquisition of St. Paul's territory, journal, treaty, accounts, and miscellany, 1825-1826 (printed copies and an 1831 draft)
BOX VI:1 REEL 302* Advisory committee on education in Liberia and Booker Washington Agricultural and Industrial Institute, Kakata, Liberia
*Advisory committee file was filmed out of order
1929-1934
BOX VI:2 REEL 301 1935-1939
BOX VI:3 REEL 302 1940
African Repositorymiscellany
Agents of the society
Agreements concerning recaptured Africans
Agreements regarding U.S. Government stores in Liberia, 1844
American Colonization Society v. Kelly, 1931-1932
Analostan Island and Georgetown property, Washington, D.C., 1901-1936
Auxiliary societies
Bacon, Samuel, extracts from journal
Benjamin Coates Primary School, 1892-1893
Benjamin Coates fund
Bills of lading, 1845-1865
Booker Washington Agricultural and Industrial Institute, Kakata, Liberia
1928-1933
1933-1940, minutes of trustee meetings
BOX VI:4 REEL 303 1939-1952
Port de Bordeaux, commerce avec le Sénégal, 1892
Right Reverend Robert E. Campbell, 1926-1933
Charter parties, 1843-1865
Colonization building, 450 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., 1911-1930, May
Congressional bills regarding trade and commerce, 1890-1894
BOX VI:5 REEL 304 Constitution of the American Colonization Society, draft
Contracts with U.S. government
Crozer, Samuel A., biographical material
Currency
Dailey v. American Colonization Society
Deeds
Charles Irving to John Coles, 1792
Lands in Africa, 1822-1834
Purchase agreements, 1840-1845
1846-1848
1859-1872
Documents regarding dispute between Governor Thomas Buchanan and Methodist missionaries, 1840-1841
Donovan, Caroline
Trust fund
1910-1919
BOX VI:6 REEL 305 1920-1924
Court papers
Education in Liberia and Booker Washington Agricultural and Industrial Institute, Kakata, Liberia
1942-1945
BOX VI:7 REEL 306 1950
Emigration
List of applicants for passage to Liberia, 1850-1893
1912-1921, undated
BOX VI:8 REEL 307 1914-1934
Gibson, Nugent H., former agent in Liberia, 1910-1928
Golconda (ship)
General
Partial loss, 1868-1871
Graham trust fund, 1910-1925
Graham School No. 1, reports, 1896-1911
Graham School No. 2, reports, 1897-1904
Graham School No. 3, reports, 1898-1911
Graham School No. 4, reports, 1899-1900
BOX VI:9 REEL 308 Hall School, 1891-1909
History
Hurd, Samuel, estate, 1843-1872
Indentures
Industrial Home School, report, 1902
Inventory of office furnishings, circa 1910
Johnson, Henry L. E., 1912-1915
Johnson, William G., 1919-1929
Jones, James David, biographical material
BOX VI:10 REEL 309 “The Junk Establishment”
Kosciuszko, Thaddeus, wills and estate, 1798-1827
Land holdings in Liberia, 1915
Lane Seminary Trustees v. American Colonization Society, 1929-1932
League of Nations, 1933
Legal papers, miscellaneous
Liberia College, Monrovia, Liberia, 1918-1936
Liberia
Government of
Agreement between Republic of Liberia and American Colonization Society, 1848
“Sketch of the History of Liberia”
Neutrality of Liberia, 1914
Resolutions for closer relations with England
Treaty with native kings, 1840, Apr. 6
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
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