Lester-Gray collection of documents relating to Joseph Glover Baldwin, 1838-1949
A reel of microfilm of papers, 1838-1949, of Joseph Glover Baldwin and the Lester and Baldwin families; an audiodisc; and a photograph album. The microfilm is a copy made from the Joseph Glover Baldwin papers at the New York Public Library in 1949. Microfilmed materials include correspondence relating to family life in California and Alabama, an 1863 meeting with Abraham Lincoln, and mining interests in Nevada Territory; clippings; writings; and other materials. Also included is some correspondence with Millard Fillmore and much correspondence of Robert M. Lester in connection with gathering Baldwin material for a biography (never completed) and the administration of the material collected beginning in the 1920s. Lester received the bulk of the Baldwin family papers from Joseph Glover Baldwin's daughter, Cornelia Baldwin Gray, of California. An original audiodisc of WJZ coverage of part of a 24 June 1939 symposium relating to Robert M. Lester's address "Is the Library Doing Its Job?" and an original photograph album labeled "Negroes, born and Bred on Gen. Lee's Land, 1862" are also included. The photograph album holds 17 tintypes and one carte-de-visite picturing African Americans--women, men, and children--well-dressed and formally posed. Despite the label on the album, most of the images appear to date from 1880-1900, and there is no direct evidence of connection with Robert E. Lee
Archival Material, English, 1838
History
3 items
24416817
In the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (#2993)
Master microfilm (M-2993) held by: NcU
Microfilm filmed by New York Public Library, 1949