Image / Bank check signed by Mary Ellen Pleasant, on November 27, 1886

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Title: Bank check signed by Mary Ellen Pleasant, on November 27, 1886
Alternative Title: Mary Ellen Pleasant, entrepreneur and abolitionist of African descent
Date Created and/or Issued: 1886
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Check made out to the Spring Valley Water Works for the amount of Twenty eight dollars and 35 cents by Mary Ellen Pleasant.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b04_f16_008.tif
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Subject: African American abolitionists
African American businesspeople
Pleasant, Mary Ellen, 1814-1904
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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