DescriptionThe Friedrich and Graessle Families papers consist of documentation of the families' emigration to, and life in Newark, New Jersey. Wilhelm Friedrich (b. 1854) emigrated with his wife, Mary (b....
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
DescriptionThis scrapbook contains clippings, photographs, and correspondence related to Catherine Basie and her civic and charitable work, photographs of Catherine Basie as Princess Aloha, photographs of the...
DescriptionThis scrapbook commemorates the proclamation of "Basie Day" in Kansas City on September 30, 1977 and henceforth, and includes clippings, photographs, a drawing of Count Basie, and correspondence.
DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of...
DescriptionThe newspaper clipping of 1957 focus on the successful resettlement of the Hungarian refugees to United States.
The reproduced documents represent one folder from the Hungarian Refugee Relief Files,...
DescriptionThis file includes loose scrapbook pages collated with unrelated materials when the Institute of Jazz Studies acquired the Count Basie family papers and artifacts. Pages include clippings, greeting...
DescriptionThis scrapbook includes photographs of Count Basie in performance and candid shots, Catherine Basie, a few members of the Basie extended family, musicians, dancers, comedians, and others, as well as...
DescriptionInforms Griffis of the passing of their son (George Clayton Foulk), and that their son's letters and papers are to be sent to Griffis. Explains that all of the texts were intended to be destroyed, but...
