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Shimm, Sarah A. — Series 1: Biographical Material
1871-1912
African American history · place not specified
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
Includes Graceland Cemetary certificate of ownership; Public Schools of Washington County teaching appointments, 1874; District of Columbia public school documents; copy of poem written by Sarah A. Shimm and transcribed by Charlene Hodges Byrd; and clippings of her obituary.
- Collection
- Charlene Hodges Byrd collection
- Archival grouping
- Charlene Hodges Byrd collection / Series 1: Biographical Material
- Catalog date
- 1871-1912
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Byrd, Charlene Hodges, 1929-2009
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Catalog reference: sova.nmaahc.a2010.26_ref63
Collection: Charlene Hodges Byrd collection