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Marriage certificate of Daniel Bailor and Rachel Dixon, September 6, 1870; card, "To the Memory of Mrs. Daniel Bailor" (Rachel Dixon), died 1897; manuscript page stating that Daniel Bailor was two years old in 1844; contract for the purchase of a farm in Tompkins County by Daniel Bailor from Rachel J. Cook, 1897; and statement signed by Notary Public with information typed on back by Lyman H. Gallagher.

Scope and content Original mss., typeset proofs, galley proofs, notes, and illustrations for Africanisms in American Culture; mss. and multiple drafts of essays published in that book, including "The Origins of Afircan-American Culture" by Holloway, "African Elements in African-American English" by Molefi Kete Asante, "Gullah Attitudes Toward Life and Death" by Margaret W. Creel, "Africanisms in African-American Music" by Portia K. Maultsby, and "The African Heritage of White America" by John E. Philips....