Lloyd A. Trent Family Collection
1850-1996
3 boxes 1.5 linear feet
Call no.: MS 375
Over five generations, the African-American Trent worked toward commercial success and wealth through the restaurant and catering business as well as extensive real estate investments at the turn of the 20th century in New York City, Brooklyn, and Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York.
Focused primarily on family and genealogy, the Trent family collection contains letters, public and church records, news clippings, ephemera, a videotape, and 87 photographs
Gift of Brooke Trent, widow of Lloyd A. Trent, Jr., 1995