Collections
![Black and white photograph](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/NYSMURDC21348-07.jpg?itok=nmv83zjP)
The collection explores the role of African Americans in the General Electric workforce.
![African Repository and Colonial Journal](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/AfricanRepository.jpeg?itok=EqHL93mp)
A collection of the African Repository and Colonial Journal which was published in 1837 by the American Colonization Society.
![Albion Winegar Tourgee Collection](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/WNYLRC019.png?itok=rwqe9QEj)
Albion W. Tourgee (1838 - 1905) was a Civil War veteran, politician, and lawyer. He played a pivotal role in the Plessy v. Ferguson case and was a pioneering civil rights activist. This collection includes his correspondence, as well as legal documents, articles, and photographs.
![American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/Anti_Slavery_Reporter.jpeg?itok=a0uZDFn5)
An 1843 publication by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society relating to the abolishment of slavery.
![The Anti-Slavery Record](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/VZJ007.png?itok=znNiJNUM)
Selected issues of the abolitionist newspaper, The Anti-Slavery Record, published in 1836.
![Archacki Cartoons](/sites/default/files/styles/browse_thumbnail/public/content/collection/covers/BUF008.jpeg?itok=4DDxsrJV)
Cartoons drawn by Polish immigrant, Henryk Archacki, representing current events at the time with a sense of Polish pride.