Loreta Janeta Velazquez

Scanned by
Carlene Hempel and Jill Kuhn, University of North Carolina, 1999
Notes
Cropped and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 1, 2008. The original work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
Yes
Courtesy of
Documenting the American South Project, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Permission to use?
Yes
Source citation
Loreta Jeneta Velazquez, The Woman in Battle....(Richmond, Virginia: Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1876), frontispiece.
Source note
Electronic Version from the Documenting the American South Project, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

John Wesley Landis (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 190.
*Landis, John Wesley---Born September 24, 1837, at Halifax, Pa.; A. B., 1860; admitted to the bar in Harrisburg, Pa., and practiced there for a time; removed to Halifax, Pa., where he became secretary of the Halifax insurance company; Phi Kappa Sigma; U. P. society. Died March 18, 1879.
Alumni Record: Dickinson College

Richard McAlister (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 101.
*McAlister, Richard  --- Born April 21, 1819, at Fort Hunter, Dauphin county, Pa.; A. B., 1840; U. P. society; 1842, admitted to Harrisburg bar; 1844, district attorney for Dauphin county; 1856, secretary to Governor Greary of Kansas; 1860, practiced law in Keokuk, Ia.; 1881, retired and moved to Washington, D. C., where he died about 1887.
Alumni Record: Dickinson College

Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, detail

Scanned by
Risa Mulligan, University of North Carolina, 2004
Scan date
Notes
Cropped and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 1, 2008. The original work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
Yes
Courtesy of
Documenting the American South Project, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Permission to use?
Yes
Source citation
Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted (Boston: James H. Earle, 1892), frontispiece.
Source note
Electronic Version from the Documenting the American South Project, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Massive explosion and fire at a fireworks factory in London

Madame Coton's fireworks factory, located in a poor residential area of London south of the Thames, caught fire. Explosions and the resulting firing of rockets being prepared for a display rain down on the neighboring area, including another fireworks factory which also ignited. Madame Coton and four others were killed and hundreds more injured. (By John Osborne)
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poetry (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Mamie E. Locke, "Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00304.html.
Harper's poetry and prose were political. Her works tackled the issue of slavery and the cruelty endured by slave women. The final two lines of one of her more popular poems, "Bury Me in a Free Land," poignantly expresses the desire of slaves: "All that my yearning spirit craves / Is bury me not in a land of slaves." The "Slave Auction" addressed the issue of children being sold away from their mothers:
And mothers stood with streaming eyes
And saw their dear children sold
Unheeded rise their bitter cries,
American National Biography Online

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Biographical Information (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Mamie E. Locke, "Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00304.html.
[Frances Harper] was orphaned at an early age and raised by an aunt. She attended a school for free blacks, which was run by her uncle, the Reverend William Watkins. Her formal education ended at age thirteen. Harper became a nursemaid and found additional employment as a seamstress, needlecraft teacher, and traveling abolitionist lecturer. She also lectured in support of woman suffrage. She later became a schoolteacher in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

American National Biography Online

Maine (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 202-204.
MAINE, one of the United States, lying on its north-eastern border, so called from Maine, a department of France, of which Henrietta Maria, queen of Еngland, was proprietor.  It lies between 43° 5' and 47° 20' north latitude, and 66° 49' and 71° 4' west longitude from Greenwich, and is bounded north by Canada East, from which it is separated by the river St. John's, east by New Brunswick, from which it ¡s separated in part by the St.

Charles Robinson, photograph

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Territorial Kansas
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 30, 2008.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
Yes
Courtesy of
Territorial Kansas Online
Permission to use?
Not sure
Original caption
Photograph, Charles Robinson
Source citation
University of Kansas, Territorial Kansas Online
Source note
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org
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