European Tour collection, 1873-1878 (bulk, 1875-1877).

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European Tour collection, 1873-1878 (bulk, 1875-1877).

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Collection contains correspondence, financial records and miscellaneous records. Series II: Financial records encompasses three subseries: Agent Reports, Bills, and Miscellaneous Financial Materials. This series contains documents which indicate the costs of their expeditions to Europe. Profits and expenditures from the Jubilee Singers' concerts are shown in reports, receipts, bills, and some financial correspondence. The Agent Reports typically consist of an itemized form filled out by agents who lived in the cities where the concerts were held. These agents had the responsibility of making the arrangements for their concerts, boarding and lodging, advertising, and any other essential accommodations; this was necessary due to the unfamiliarity of the cities to the American managers, chaperones, and singers. Receipts and bills for public halls, hotels, stationery production, and advertisements in local newspapers are also among the items included in the chronologically-arranged folders which follow their tour cities and dates. Hotel, newspaper advertisment, public hall, and stationery/printing bills are all included in the Bills subseries. This subseries is arranged chronologically by type of bill, but has single bills disconnected from agent reports. These bills, which may once have been connected to agent reports, are sometimes the only indicators of time spent in various cities on the European tour. Also found in this subseries are Dutch and German financial records from tours throughout the Netherlands and Germany. The Miscellaneous Financial Materials subseries does not fall under either of the two previous subseries. Documents include the personal salaries and expenditures of the managers, checks, receipts, and check and agent report registers. Jubilee Hall account information is also found in this subseries. Series III: Miscellaneous contains documents that do not fall within the scope of the aforementioned series. Business cards and notes without dates, as well as newspaper clippings are among the items in this group. Lists of names of supporters in different locations are in this series, as well as a publication from the Church of the Pilgrims, South entitled Lost But Found.

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John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives

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Jubilee Singers (Fisk University)

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The Fisk Jubilee Singers originated with nine students, Isaac Dickerson, Maggie Porter, Minnie Tate, Jennie Jackson, Benjamin Holmes, Thomas Rutling, Eliza Walker, Green Evans, and Ella Sheppard, who set out on a concert tour of the North on 6 Oct. 1871 to save the financially ailing Fisk University; idea to form the group was conceived by George L. White, Fisk University's white treasurer; because the University disapproved of the idea, White had to borrow money for the tour; White gave the gro...

Fisk University

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Established as Fisk Free Colored School in Nashville, Tenn., in Dec. 1865 by John Ogden, Rev. Erastus Milo Caravath, and Rev. Edward P. Smith; named in honor of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Tennessee and Kentucky, who provided the new institution with facilities and contributed over $30,000 to the school; opened on 9 Jan. 1866 with almost two hundred students of all ages; incorporated as Fisk University on 22 Aug. 1867 after its curriculum shifted to ...

Pike, Gustavus D.

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Cravath, Erastus Milo, 1833-1900

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First president of Fisk University and chaplain with the 101st Ohio Regiment in Nashville, Tenn. From the description of Erastus Milo Cravath papers, 1873-1897. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70971634 ...

Seward, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen), 1835-1902

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Halley, John Todd

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Merchant. Born in Fairfax County, Virginia, John Halley settled in Boonesborough, Ky. There he supposedly opened one of the first stores, planted one of the first orchards, and shipped tobacco to New Orleans. From the description of Journal of John Halley of his trips to New Orleans in the years 1789 and 1791, 1789, 1791. (University of Kentucky Libraries). WorldCat record id: 13494849 ...

Fairchild, Charles S. (Charles Stebbins), 1842-1924

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U.S. secretary of the treasury. From the description of Charles S. Fairchild papers, 1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452649 ...

Casey, L. R.

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