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Chiefly song sheets documenting the Civil War and the American South. Some song sheets have been cataloged individually. Digitized song sheets are numbered

These images taken during road trips throughout the United States were selected by photographer Jim Dow for his published book, American Studies (2011). They are sequenced in the order in which they appear in the book; the first image appears on the cover.

This series contains research and preparation materials used in publishing Robert Hill's Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, American Volumes I-VII (1846-1940). The series chronicles Garvey's life in Jamaica, his travels through the Caribbean, the founding and evolution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the United States, and his fraud conviction, deportation to Jamaica, and eventual death in England. This series also includes Hill's Annotated and Indexed Subjects for the unpublished Volume VIII of the series, which covers Africa.