Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. Family Papers 1850-1996

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Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. Family Papers 1850-1996

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Five generations of an African-American family that achieved commercial success and wealth through the restaurant and catering business as well as extensive real estate investments at the turn of the 20th century in New York City, Brooklyn, and Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York. Includes letters, public and church records, news clippings, ephemera, a videotape, and 87 photographs.

3 boxes; (1.5 linear ft.)

eng,

Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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