Personal Papers
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Jessee, Mark
label: Collection Creator
content: Marks, Peter, 1843-1883
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content: Peter Marks Minstrelsy Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1800-1909
label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1328, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of the personal papers of Peter Marks including school books, correspondence, agreements, magazine articles, enlistment papers, photographs, receipts, poetry, business card, sign and advertisements for private music lessons, and a burial plot certificate. There are a few materials relating to Mark's wife Mary "Emma" McKitrick primarily her correspondence with Burlingame relatives on her mother's side of the family. In addition, there are music and school books that belonged to his son Eugene. Marks's mother Anne Mooney Marks has a small amount of material including photographs, poetry, letters and a burial plot certificate. There is relativly no information relating to his father William Augustus Marks or his son Ralph. The materials are arranged in chronological order.