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Box 2

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Thimble belonging to Phebe Ann Jacobs (formerly enslaved to Maria Wheelock; servant to the Allen family), with accompanying papers.

 File — Box: 2
Identifier: M003.1
Series Description: From the Series: Letters by William Allen, 1805-1860, most written from Brunswick or Northampton. Correspondents include college presidents Henry Davis of Middlebury College and Benjamin Hale (Bowdoin 1820) of Geneva College (now Hobart and William Smith Colleges) as well as Bowdoin colleagues, professor Nehemiah Cleaveland and trustee Reuel Williams. Brief biographical records, images of Allen, and a thimble belonging to African-American Phebe Ann Jacobs (formerly enslaved to Allen's wife Maria Wheelock;...
Dates: 1805-1970, undated; Majority of material found within 1805 - 1862
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011 / William Allen Family papers / William Allen Material, 1805-1970, n.d.

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