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- Collection: Nineteenth Century
Dascomb's recommendation as President of Oberlin's Female Department for Louisa Alexander's acceptance as a teacher alongside Amanda Thomas Wall in…
In this letter Alexander reaches out to Rev. Whipple to resolve a lack of communication between her in Ohio and her soon to be employer through the…
In this letter Cardozo asks Hunt to respond and assure both Wall and Alexander that he had not in fact requested white teachers from the AMA as Hunt…
This image is a photograph of Edmonia Lewis.
Poem written and read by Fanny Jackson Coppin for the 54th, published in the Lorain County News.
Poem written and read by Fanny Jackson Coppin for her 1865 graduating class commencement ceremony, reproduced in a 1964 Oberlin Observer.
Clipping of the obituary of Mary Jane Patterson from the Washington D.C. Evening Star newspaper.
Photograph of Mary Jane Patterson from the possession of Mrs. Florence P. Clark now in the Oberlin College archives.

M. P. Dascomb's Recommendation for Louisa Alexander
Louisa Alexander's Letter to Rev. George Whipple
Rev. Francis L. Cardozo's Letter to Samuel Hunt, Superintendent of Education of the AMA
Portrait of Edmonia Lewis
Fanny Jackson Coppin Image
From the Anglo-African to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers
The Grandeur of Our Triumph
Image of Mary Burnett Talbert
Death of Miss Patterson
Photograph of Mary Jane Patterson