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Iraq, portrait of porter on train from Basra to Baghdad
No full textPorter on train in Iraq (Bazra [Basra, Al-Baṣrah] to Baghdad) F.G.C. 1928GrayscaleClapp Nitrate Negatives, Box
Frederick Douglass photograph
No full textFrederick Douglass (1818-1895) was a famous passenger on the Underground Railroad and worked as a station agent in Rochester, Monroe County, New York. After escaping slavery, he worked tirelessly for the cause of abolition and equal rights as an orator, author, and statesman
Frederick A. P. Barnard letter and speech, MSS.0113
No full textAbstract: An address to the "Gentlemen of the Erosophic Society" in 1848 at The University of Alabama and a letter to Barnard from his brother, John G. Barnard, regarding a pass for travel in 1862.Scope and Content Note: An address to the "Gentlemen of the Erosophic Society" in 1848 at The University of Alabama and a letter to Barnard from his brother, John G. Barnard, regarding a pass for travel in 1862.Biographical/Historical Note: Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, in May 1809. A graduate of Yale University in 1828, he joined The University of Alabama faculty in 1837, where he taught mathematics, chemistry, natural sciences, and philosophy until 1854, when he left for the University of Mississippi. He was chancellor of the University of Missississippi from 1856 until the beginning of the Civil War, when he returned to the North. He was president of Columbia College (Columbia University) from 1864 until the late 1870s, shortly before his death in 1879. Barnard supported women's education, and Barnard College was named in his honor
Maine Interview piece with Porter Frederick, who is a plumber, a regular at th
No full textMaine Interview piece with Porter Frederick, who is a plumber, a regular at the Breakaway bar, over which he lives, and a witness to changes on Portland\u27s waterfront, from which the Bath Iron Works drydock is moving
Alien Registration- Porter, Frederick Clarence J. (Augusta, Kennebec County)
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Letter From Frederick D. Grant to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, March 20, 1897
No full textIn this copy of a typed letter from Frederick Grant to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, Grant agrees to speak with Horace Porter about securing a position for Huntington Wilson as Second Secretary to the Ambassador in Paris.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/fmhw_early_career/1005/thumbnail.jp
Whittier House donor letter and list from Frederick P. Craig
No full textWhittier House scrapbooks document Whittier House programs, events, and anniversary celebrations through newspaper clippings, lecture fliers, newsletters, event programs, and ticket stubs. Newspaper clippings are primarily from the Jersey Journal. There is also Whittier House fundraising materials, including pamphlets, appeal letters, brochures, and postcards. The Whittier House Social Settlement, the first settlement house in New Jersey, was established in Jersey City, N.J. (Hudson County) in 1894. Founded by Cornelia Foster Bradford, who would remain with the organization as headworker until 1926, Whittier House was based on the settlement house, Toynbee Hall, in England. Whittier House provided various recreational and educational programs, along with much needed social services, for the immigrant populations of Jersey City. Many of these successful services were used as models for large-scale social reform movements through the state. In 1935, the Whittier House was taken over by the Boys' Club of Jersey City
Frederick Wilson, Author-Lecturer, Feb. 1, 1947
No full textNoted Author and lecturer Dr. Frederick Taylor Wilson will speak at the Winthrop College assembly. Dr. Wilson, a nationally recognized authority on the Constitution and American Presidents, will give a lecture entitled The Birth of Our Liberties. Dr. Wilson is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, after which he taught history, as well as taught and practiced law
Petition to Judges of Frederick County Court from Negroe David, stating that he is unjustly held in slavery by Nathaniel Porter, March 31, 1792
No full textPetition to Judges of Frederick County Court from Negroe David, stating that he is unjustly held in slavery by Nathaniel Porter
Biographical memoir of Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard, 1809-1889
No full textFrederick Augustus Porter Barnard was a notable nineteenth-century scientist who made contributions to the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, and chemistry and played a leading role in the development of modern higher education as president of Columbia University. Barnard began his teaching career as a tutor at Yale University before taking positions at the University of Alabama and the University of Mississippi. In 1864 he became the tenth president of Columbia University, a position he would hold for twenty-four years. Barnard made significant advances at Columbia, adding new departments, modernizing research, and championing the principle of equal access to education across gender and other divisions. The women’s school, Barnard College, was named for him in order to honor his vision and many contributions to Columbia. He was a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences
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