Caption reads: "Brick wall and postern gate in front of Le Chateau de Tivoli. Built about 1800 by Peter DeLabigarre. Col. Johnston L. DePeyster, son [of] the Gen. John Watts DePeyster, lived there until his death on May 27, 1903." Delabigarre's...
Photograph of Boy Scout Liberty Bond rally. The boys display a banner promoting the purchase of Liberty Bonds, which was the bond drive supporting the World War One effort.
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.
Within this presentation casket is the bottle, wrapped in bunting, that Josephine Board Johnson of Chester christened the Liberty Ship "S.S. Samhorn" at her launch from way number two of Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation in Savannah, Georgia,...