Map; Appomattox Indian Town; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
A photograph of a plat map showing the location of one of four Appomattox Indian Towns. On this site will be a farm called "Ettrick Banks" later Virginia State University. This was the site of one of the Indian Towns attacked by Nat...
Date of Construction for Holsey Hall Is Not Known, But For Many Years It Was Listed As The Oldest Buildings On Campus. Holsey Hall Is Named In Honor Of Bishop Lucius H. Holsey. It Was Used As An Elementary School, A Dormitory For Both Men And...
Campus Buildings; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Built for the owner of the Fleet Farm in 1834. The building became known as the Griffin House, after John Griffin bought the tract in 1879. It was purchased for Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in 1882. It was converted into the main...
Campus Buildings; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Built for the owner of the Fleet Farm in 1834. The building became known as the Griffin House, after John Griffin bought the tract in 1879. It was purchased for Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in 1882. It was converted into the main...
Ashmun Institute; Lincoln University (PA); Founding
Printed Document Describing the Meeting of the Presbytery of New Castle on October 5, 1853, When the Decision Was Made to Found The Ashmun Institute. Verso Contains Unsigned Handwritten Note, Dated 12-17-1853, Attributed to Sarah Emlen Cresson...
Handwritten in a (Larger Format) Ledger Book. Some Blank Pages. Some Bleedthrough Obscures Text in Spots. Name Changes From Ashmun Institute to Lincoln University on April 4, 1866. Title Changes From "Summary of Operations" to...
Slave; African American; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
Henry Johnson was born a slave around 1835 on the Fleet Plantation. He later became the butler at the Fleet Plantation house. After the Civil War Mr. Johnson became a wagoner.
Henry Johnson; Malinda Johnson; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
The home was built by Henry Johnson in 1865 after the end of the Civil War on Rome Street in Petersburg, VA. Henry Johnson had been born a slave on the old Fleet Plantation, now the site of Virginia State University. The house is still standing.
Lincoln Institute; Founders; Civil War; United States Colored Troops; Missouri
Photograph of Rev. Moses Dickson, Founder of the International Order of Twelve and the Knights of Tabor. Served on the Board of Trustees for Lincoln University.
Leather Bound, Title on Spine: Library Lincoln University. 288-Page Ledger Book Containing Library Catalogue of Ashmun Institute and Lincoln University, signed by Wm. H. Miller of Lexington, KY (105 pages), With Additions Made to His Lists, and...
The Reverend Jacob Brinton Smith, DD Was Born March 1, 1822. He Was Ordained Deacon on December 25, 1845 by The Right Reverend Bosworth Smith, Bishop of Kentucky, Who Was Presiding Bishop From 1865 to 1884. In 1867, The Reverend J. Brinton Smith...
Lincoln University Pennsylvania, student organization
Constitution and Bylaws of the Garnet Literary Association of Lincoln University, Philadelphia: Loag Street Hall, 1867. Printed, Title Page Through Page 24, With 5 Blank Pages at End. Handwritten on First Blank Pages: "Amendments". The...
Two Years After the Close of the Civil War, Saint Augustine’s Normal School and Collegiate Was Incorporated in July, 1867. The School Opened in January 1868 at the Union Army Barracks on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds, But Known Then as...
Two Sets of Photographs of Lincoln University Students from Liberia, the First Taken in 1871, When They Arrived, and the Second in 1879. The Liberians are: Samuel Sevier, John Savage, Robert Deputie, and Alonzo Miller. Information on Verso.
Leather Bound With Title on Spine, Minute Book of Faculty of Lincoln University. Pages 1-15 are hand-numbered. Cattered Blank Pages. Some Items are Inserted and Pasted in. Microfilming and Digitization of This Document Was Funded By a Grant From...
Scanned From Photocopies From Pages in Newspaper Clipping File in Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, PA, Which Also Has Clipping Files in Microfilm.
DeLong, Mary A. [Ann] Craig, 1865-1960; Southern University and A & M College--Students
Black and white photograph of Mary A. Craig DeLong. She was Southern's first student to enter the premises at Southern University when it was chartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Born Into Slavery On July 3, 1842 Near Columbus, Georgia; Bishop Holsey Of The C.M.E. Church And Local Resident Of August, Was the Prime Mover In The Founding Of Pain College. In 1882, As a Fraternal Messenger, He Appeared Before the General...
Housing; Student and Faculty; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
On this postcard are two buildings which were used for male students when Virginia State University opened in 1883. Reading left to right they were called the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Newspaper Editor; Priest; Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute
George Freeman Bragg, Jr., was the twenty-year-old editor of the "Petersburg Lancet" when the cornerstone was laid for the new college in July 1883. His eighteen-year-old sister Carrie, was among the sixty-two students present on opening...
