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MS 63
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Title: Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams papers
Dates: 1951-1959
Collection number: MS 63
Creator:
Adams, Emma Lee.
Creator:
Adams, Jimmie.
Collection Size:
1 linear foot
(2 boxes)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
Abstract: The Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams Papers include personal and business correspondence, financial records, legal records, programs,
postcards, business cards, and printed material documenting the personal and business activities of Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams.
The papers are organized into five series: correspondence, financial records, legal records, religious activities, and printed
material. The bulk of the papers is personal correspondence written to Emma Lee Adams from various relatives in Louisiana,
Texas, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois. Many of the letters are from Emma Lee’s sisters, parents, and cousins and discuss general
family matters such as weddings, births, illnesses, and work life.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams Papers must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library
at Oakland.
Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams papers, MS 63, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
Processed by Sean Heyliger, 09/18/2013.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams Papers include personal and business correspondence, financial records, legal records, programs,
postcards, business cards, and printed material documenting the personal and business activities of Emma Lee and Jimmie Adams.
The papers are organized into five series: correspondence, financial records, legal records, religious activities, and printed
material. The bulk of the papers is personal correspondence written to Emma Lee Adams from various relatives in Louisiana,
Texas, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois. Many of the letters are from Emma Lee’s sisters, parents, and cousins and discuss general
family matters such as weddings, births, illnesses, and work life.
The financial and legal records largely relate to Jimmie Adams’ work as a junk and salvage dealer in Oakland, California.
The records include bill of sales, insurance policies, and registrations for salvaged vehicles, receipts from various auto
mechanics and scrap dealers, and Adams’ pay stubs and tax statements from employers. The religious activities series includes
church programs from Ebenezer Baptist Church and an usher ribbon from Mt. Calvary Baptist Church. The printed material series
includes an union contract booklet, an insurance policy booklet from the American Cyanamid Company, blank keno cards and rule
book, and one issue of the
The Plumb Line G, a newsletter of the African American masonic temple in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Series I. Correspondence
Series II. Financial records
Series III. Legal records
Series IV. Religious activities
Series V. Printed material
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
African American families--California--Oakland.
African American families--History--Sources.