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Pax Yearbook 2020, Subiaco Abbey And Academy

The Pax, 1927; 1946-2020

Yearbook of Subiaco Abbey and Academy for the 2019-2020 school year.

Library Interior, Mena, Decorated With Streamers With Hearts As If For Valentine's Day

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of Mena Library's interior, showing tables with books on top, chairs, and bookshelves. A lady in a dark dress stands against a bookshelf. The room is decorated with streamers with heart shapes as if for Valentine's day.

"Our Wedding Song" Poem By Joseph Boone Hunter

Holidays and celebrations

"Our wedding song," poem by Joseph Boone Hunter. Includes notes that "music for this poem has been written by Marjorie S. Matsumoto" and handwritten "E L [Elizabeth Lucille; Betty Lu] Hunter High Plains Bapt. Hosp., Amarillo, Texas."

Programme For St. Valentine's Ball At Concordia Hall, 1899 February 14

Holidays and celebrations

Programme, featuring an illustration of woman in a dress climbing a ladder to be near a man on a balcony, for St. Valentine's Ball at Concordia Hall, in Little Rock. Includes lists of dances and committees members.

Wedding Ceremony By Joseph Boone Hunter

Holidays and celebrations

Typed wedding ceremony template by Joseph Boone Hunter. Includes blanks for bride and grooms names and reminds not to ask "useless questions" with examples such as: 'If anyone knows any reason why these young people should not' [marry]..."

The Meaning Of Easter, Sermon By Joseph Boone Hunter

Holidays and celebrations

Typed sermon entitled "The Meaning of Easter" by Joseph Boone Hunter, pastor of Pulaski Heights Christian Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Includes handwritten notes in margins. Lists Mrs. Janice Moore as pastor's assistant.

Unidentified Boy Beside Chair With A Birthday Cake

Holidays and celebrations

Photo of a boy and his cake. The cake has two candles and "2 Years" written on it. The back of photo includes handwritten note "He looks kind of mad, he wanted to put his finger on the cake."

Valentine, Lewis Webb To Elizabeth Ann Hollis

Holidays and celebrations

Valentine, from Lewis Webb to Elizabeth Ann Hollis with poem.

The Country Club Announces Five Big Parties For The Season

Holidays and celebrations

Parties include Thanksgiving party on Saturday November 28th, Christmas Tree on Thursday December 31st, Mardi Gras Party on Tuesday February 23rd, and Spring Carnival on Saturday April 17th. Announcement also notes "The Board has entrusted these special entertainments to a committee of ladies, of which Mrs. T. H. Bunch is Chairman. This Committee will doubtless advise members more definitely of its plans before each event. These dates are additional to the usual dinners, dances, etc., given by the regular committee.

Lanette Hayton

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

Graveside services.

Beverley Janell Wiley Johnson

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.

Deborah Ann Tennille

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.

Flossie Conner Smith Brantley

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

Graveside service.

The Abbey Message, 2020 Winter

The Abbey Message, 1940-2021

The Abbey Message publication, produced by Subiaco Abbey, dated Winter 2020.

James Quenton Gibson

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.

Fall Commencement Program, December 18, 2020, Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

Archivo Historico De La Secretaria De Relaciones Exteriores L_E_1095, Secretaria De Relaciones Exteriores

La Guerra de Texas y La Guerra Mexico - Estados Unidos

Efforts for peace, treaties, and covenants, to return national and private property after the evacuation of the country by U.S. forces. The Minister of War communicates news from Sonora regarding the passing of a caravan that goes to California. p. 1-2.

U.S. forces take possession of Isleta, Socorro and S. Elzeario; Chihuahua protests the U.S. occupation. p. 2a-68.

The government refuses the declaration of the Republic of Sierra, formed from northern Border States and mainly instigated by Americans. p. 69-93.

The Governor of Chihuahua worries about buffalo hunters crossing into and inhabiting the territory. p. 94-98.

Nathan Clifford, Minister from …

President's Council On Diversity, Equity And Inclusion: Findings And Recommendations Report, University Of Maine President's Council On Diversity, Equity And Inclusion

University of Maine Racial Justice Collection

Report from the President’s Council on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with recommendations for expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion on the University of Maine (UM) and the University of Maine at Machias (UMM) campuses.

The President’s Council on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion began its work in October 2020, charged with advising “the President and members of the President’s Cabinet on matters of diversity, equity and inclusion at [UM] and [UMM] and to provide an annual report to the President on the status and efforts to ensure that inclusive excellence is foundational at the University.”

The Council includes 33 members, who collectively …

Liberating Ourselves From The Past, Ambeth R. Ocampo

Magisterial Lectures

In this lecture, Ambeth Ocampo sheds light on the Magellan and Lapu-Lapu of collective Philippine imagination, and discusses how history can be used as a tool for both inclusion and exclusion.

Speaker: Ambeth Ocampo is a public historian whose research covers the late nineteenth-century Philippines: its art, culture, and the heroes who figure in the birth of the nation. He writes a widely read Editorial Page column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and moderates a growing Facebook Fan Page. Ocampo is a Professor and former Chairperson of the Department of History, School of Social Sciences in the Ateneo de Manila …

Lawrence "L-Dogg" Scott

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.

Melvin Perkins Sr.

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

Melvin Perkins Sr. had a graveside service.

Melvin Perkins Sr.

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.

Willie Lee Mobley Sr.

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.

Congo 1961: Tracking Cia-Backed Weapon Smuggling In Africa's Copper Belt, Brian Mott

Fall Student Research Symposium 2020

In 1960, the newly independent Congo erupted into civil war. Belgium, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union all rushed to influence the outcome. Congo sits atop some of the richest mineral deposits in the world; it was a critical Cold War battleground. The CIA came to the aid of one of the warring parties: the rebel state of Katanga. One of the critical ways they aided Katanga was by supplying otherwise unavailable weaponry. I focus on one instance of arms smuggling in particular: when three fighter jet aircraft were smuggled to the rebel Katangan regime. Historians have not …

Karen Sieber Speaks About Hidden History Of Violence At Umaine, Megan Ashe

University of Maine Racial Justice Collection

On Tuesday Dec. 1, 2020, Karen Sieber, the Humanities Specialist at the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center, presented a talk called “Tarred and Feathered: UMaine’s Hidden Connection to the Red Summer of 1919.” The Red Summer occurred during the year of 1919 and was in reference to nationwide widespreadviolence against Black people, but particularly Black men. Sieber is a historian and specializes in both public history and the digital humanities. This experiencecombined with her own thirst for knowledge led her to begin to create an archive to document this time in history after a trip to Knoxville, Tennessee.

Mary Alice Melvin

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.

Emma Lettice Jaudon Griffin

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.

Ruby Dell Watts Stowbridge

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.

Farmers Picnic!

Martha McClellan Brown Ephemera

This program shows the event schedule for the picnic at Cleveland's Grove. This event consisted of many speeches, musical numbers, and other events surrounding the prohibition platform.

A Grand Prohibition Picnic At S.W. Brown's Grove

Martha McClellan Brown Ephemera

This was a flyer printed to advertise the picnic where many speakers, including McClellan Brown, would address those gathered. It includes a refreshment stand, and some singing from the Bethel Prohibition Singers.