Letter from Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack with an envelope
date: label: Date
content: November 16, 1909
name: label: Written by
content: Rev. Nelson W. Jordan, American, 1842 - 1922
label: Received by
content: Julia Womack, American, 1881 - 1942
notes: label: Description
content: This letter (.1) and envelope (.2) are correspondence written by Nelson Jordan, from Farmville, Virginia, to his daughter Julia Womack of Pasadena, California. The letter is in regards to a bank draft and notice that it will be arriving every ninety days in the future. The letter is written on ruled paper. On the verso, written upside down, is a partial draft of another letter written by an unknown person. Doodles and mathematical calculations are written on the bottom half of the verso. Two large blue circles are written on the recto over the salutation and first lines of the letter. The envelope has a preprinted return address for Reverend Nelson Jordan of Shilo Baptist Church in the upper left recto corner. Two one-cent green postage stamps are adhered in the recto upper right corner with a post office stamp to the left. A second post office stamp is on the verso center bottom.
place: label: Place made
content: Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Correspondence
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Finance
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Documents and Manuscripts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.63.102.35.1-.2
objectType: label: Type
content: envelopes
label: Type
content: letters (correspondence)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (.1): 10 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (26.7 × 19.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (.2): 3 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (8.9 × 14.9 cm)