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Letter from Paul A. Brent to Robert L. Jackson
Paul A. Brent sent this letter to his high school mentor, Robert L. Jackson, asking for assistance in his application to the Peabody Conservatory, which at the time did not admit African-American students. His application started a long discussion…
Letter from Maryland Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations to Charles Kent
In June of 1963, Conservatory Director Charles Kent received this letter from the Maryland Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations. It congratulated him on a recent decision to remove racial indicators from Peabody applications.
Alice Fitzgerald's medal from the American Nurses Memorial for the Florence Nightingale Training School, Bordeaux, France
Circular bronze medal with relief of Florence Nightingale holding an open book that reads "5 Juin 1921" in one hand while writing with the other on the front; reverse features a Roman style oil lamp and a shield with flora around the edges. The medal…
Latex Mask of Edgar Allan Poe
Latex Mask
Carry On: A Magazine on the Reconstruction of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors
The war may have ended in 1918, but the work of mending soldiers’ bodies and minds continued. Shell-shocked soldiers returning from the front now needed help with adapting to life back in the United States. Shell shock thus became a civilian…
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Official portrait of Eddie Bernice Johnson, 107th Congress. Elected in 1992 from Texas's 30th congressional district, she was the first registered nurse elected to Congress.
