African American postal service employees
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
David Fox Nelson scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0109
Abstract
The collection consists of five scrapbooks assembled between 1869 and 1890 by David Fox Nelson, an African American man who escaped from slavery in North Carolina as a child and eventually arrived in New York, where he worked for the post office for several decades. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings covering a wide range of topics, especially subjects of particular significance to African Americans in the Reconstruction era. One scrapbook contains correspondence from Nelson’s...
Dates:
1863-1879, 1883, 1890-1895