Leon Washington Condol papers

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Leon Washington Condol papers

1809-1972

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1231

The Leon Washington Condol papers consist of photographs, family documents, and news clippings that document the family’s history as African American people in the United States from 1809 until 1972. Also included in the collection, and of particular interest, is a rare, autographed copy of Sketches Old and New (1875), a collection of Mark Twain stories. One of the sketches in the volume is said to be based on the life of Leon Condol's great-grandmother, a woman who endured enslavement, family separation and reunion, and who eventually worked for Mark Twain at Quarry Farm in Elmira, NY. Much of the Condol papers, in fact, centers on the family's history of being enslaved in Maryland and Virginia, a period before Leon Washington Condol's birth in 1887. There is, however, some information on Condol's life with his family in upstate New York, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

1.50 linear feet

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6932823

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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