business letters

6 artworks

Letter and payment receipt for hire of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee

American Rouzee Family, 1800

Agreement regarding hiring of enslaved woman Nelly and her children

American Rouzee Family, 1810

Letter concerning procurement of whips, personal effects, and bolts of cloth

American Rouzee Family, 1820

Letter concerning procurement of whips, personal effects, and bolts of cloth

Unknown, 1820

Letter Signed by Frederick Douglass on Freedmen's Savings Bank letterhead

American R.H.T. Leipold, 1870

Letter Signed by Frederick Douglass on Freedmen's Savings Bank letterhead

American Frederick Douglass, 1870

Letter Signed by Frederick Douglass on Freedmen's Savings Bank letterhead

American Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, 1870

Letter Signed by Frederick Douglass on Freedmen's Savings Bank letterhead

American Robert Purvis, 1870

Letter Signed by Frederick Douglass on Freedmen's Savings Bank letterhead

American John Andrew Jackson Creswell, 1870

Letter to Charles Chesnutt from W. E. B. Du Bois

American W.E.B. Du Bois, 1900

Letter to Charles Chesnutt from W. E. B. Du Bois

Knoxville College, American, founded 1875, 1900

Letter to Charles Chesnutt from W. E. B. Du Bois

American Charles W. Chesnutt, 1900

Letter to Dorothy Porter from W.C. Handy

American Dorothy Porter, 1930

Letter to Dorothy Porter from W.C. Handy

American W. C. Handy, 1930