[AFRICAN AMERICANA - NATIVE AMERICANS - WWII]. World War II correspondence with Maud Morgan of Hillburn, NY, a member of the "Jackson Whites/Ramapough Mountain Indians."
Sale 1310 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Feb 27, 2024
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Live / Cincinnati
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[AFRICAN AMERICANA - NATIVE AMERICANS - WWII]. World War II correspondence with Maud Morgan of Hillburn, NY, a member of the "Jackson Whites/Ramapough Mountain Indians."
Collection of 11 Vmails and 3 letters addressed to Maud Morgan of Hillburn, NY, from four soldiers primarily thanking her for keeping up correspondence and passing along family updates and stories. (Toning to letters, creases to all Vmails, some scattered stains and spots.)
Subjects include: Christmas time; personal health; the weather, and their relief at hearing from home. Items were previously part of a large collection of letters written by Howard Emmons Morgan, Jr. to his family passing on any details of his life in the Army that could get past wartime censors. The Morgan family came from the Ramapough Mountain Indians of the Ramapo Mountains in Hillburn, New York, a unique ethnic group descended from Dutch settlers, African Americans, and Native Americans.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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