The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 280, July 1885, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WAS HINGTON Papers industrial department were shawls, aprons, shirts, hats, tidies, and other articles of apparel or household use. New York Evening Post, June 9, 1885, 3. Reprinted from the Chicago Inter Ocean. The correspondent was a Mr. Shumway. (See BTW to Samuel Chapman Armstrong, June A, ~ 885. ) ~ Actually February ~ 88 ~ . 2 John Alexander Logan (~8~6-86~. A Democratic congressman from southern Illinois, Logan resigned his seat in 186o to join the Union Army. An excellent soldier, he rose to the rank of major general. The war also changed his politics, and he returned to Congress in the Reconstruction period as a radical ''Black Republican.'' He was a leader in the impeachment of President Johnson, and served as U. S. senator from ~ 8 7 ~ to ~ 8 7 7 and from ~ 8 79 to ~ 886. To Samuel Chapman Armstrong 102 W37.St NY,JUneI5-85 I send by this mail a marked copy of the ''Evening Post'' containing an article, on our work which you may have seen.) I send it thinking that you might be able to get some of the Boston papers to copy. There are some inaccuracies in the article, but on the whole will do good. It is by a Mr. Shumway. Yours &c. B. T. Washington I go to Hartford tomorrow. ACS BTW Folder President's Once Vault ViHaI. ~ See A News Item from the New York Evening Post, June 9, 1885. To the Editor of the Southern Workman Tuskegee, Ala., July 1885] Editor of ''Southern Workman.'' Our Anniversary exercises which occurred on the Seth of May, were by far the most interesting and encouraging in the history of our institute. The day was beautiful, not too hot nor too cool. The rain the day before cooled the air and laid the dust. Several days before Commencement, friends of the school began 280