Sujet

Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack with an envelope, November 16, 1909. Creator: Nelson Jordan.

Légende

This letter (.1) and envelope (.2) are correspondence written by Nelson Jordan, from Farmville, Virginia, to his daughter Julia Womack of Pasadena, California. The letter is in regards to a bank draft and notice that it will be arriving every ninety days in the future. The letter is written on ruled paper. On the verso, written upside down, is a partial draft of another letter written by an unknown person. Doodles and mathematical calculations are written on the bottom half of the verso. Two large blue circles are written on the recto over the salutation and first lines of the letter. The envelope has a preprinted return address for Reverend Nelson Jordan of Shilo Baptist Church in the upper left recto corner. Two one-cent green postage stamps are adhered in the recto upper right corner with a post office stamp to the left. A second post office stamp is on the verso center bottom.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A73_488

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

192,3Mo (9,1Mo) / 60,6cm x 79,6cm / 7154 x 9396 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people black country letter museum paper text location century handwriting papers paperwork correspondence African American African-American B&W afro-american United States of America black & white black and white B W 1900s 20th century heritage American America USA united states Jordan cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC Heritage Art letters (correspondence) Womack envelopes Nelson Jordan Jordan Nelson Rev. Nelson W. Jordan Nelson W. Jordan Jordan Nelson W. Julia Womack Julia Julia Jordan