Two newspaper articles, one reporting the rate to rent slaves in New Orleans and the other on Edward Curd, Sr. of Kentucky manumitting, after his death, 15 slaves, with the condition that 13 must emigrate to Liberia.
Newspaper article about the arson trial resulting from the investigation following the disastrous fire of July 5, 1877 that consumed much of downtown Chester.
Edward Quidor was born in 1838 and was the son of George Marsh Quidor. "Uncle Ed Quidor" was handwritten at the bottom of the picture. The Quidor family of Palisades emigrated from France in the eighteenth century.
