Van Rensselaer C. Wisner site: historical and cultural miscellanea
The Van Rensselaer C. Wisner Website
Historical & Cultural Miscellanea
Ikko Matsumoto, a jeweler in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1905 and a resident of the United States since the 1880's; photo from the Indianapolis Sentinel, July 23, 1905.

Japanese in early 20th century Indiana

Two newspaper articles concerning Japanese residents of Indiana, transcribed from Indianapolis newspapers from the early 20th century.


Close-up of Tollund Man's head

"The sleeping and the dead, how they resemble one another": The Bog People of Denmark

Various photographs and information from P. V. Glob's book The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved (1969).

Omar Ibn Said (or 'Omeroh'), african-born muslim slave of John Owen of Bladen County, North Carolina; picture courtesy of Jason Bordeaux at Bladen County, NCGenWeb, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/bladen.htm

Omar Ibn Said

A collection of transcribed and scanned documents relating to Omar Ibn Said, an African Muslim of the Foulani tribe of Senegal, brought to the United States in the early 18th century to be sold as a slave.

Anti-demonstrator holding a U. S. flag and a burning Confederate flag.

Klan demonstration at JCC

Photographs of a Ku Klux Klan demonstration at the Jewish Community Center in Maitland, Florida in late October of 1995.

Title page of S. R. Oglesby's Becoming a Member of the Presbyterian Church, 1941

Stuart R. Oglesby's, Becoming a Member of the Presbyterian Church

A 1941 booklet intended for...

Advertisement for Edison Mazda electric lights, published by the Tampa Electric Company in the Tampa Tribune, January, 1916.

Odds and ends

Various scanned and transcribed documents too small to warrant a seperate heading.

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Quotes

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