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Archive of 23 stereoview photographs depicting the African American experience, primarily in the American South around the end of the 19th century. Multiple publishers but primarily consisting of Underwood & Underwood, the Keystone View Company, and Strohmeyer & Wyman. 1890-1905. Around 3.5" x 7.5" each. Black and white, often sepia.....
19th century Tintype Photograph of African American man wearing pinstripe pants and cap. Circa late 1800s. Measures at 1 1/2" x 2 14". The emancipation of slaves and the 13th amendment in 1865 coincided with tintypes' popularity. This image portrays the recently found freedom of African Americans in the post-Civil.....
19th century tintype photograph of two African American women wearing Victorian-era formal dresses and wide-brimmed hats. The emancipation of slaves and the 13th amendment in 1865 coincided with tintypes enjoying their most popular usage. This image portrays the recently found freedom of African Americans, and some of the subjects of.....
19th century tintype photograph of African American man with goatee. Measures 4" x 2.5." Sitting photo portrait of an African American gentleman wearing a fasionable vest and sportcoat. Despite his fine clothing, he appears tired and worn; perhaps he has endured a difficult life. He is seated and rests his.....
19 century Tintype photograph of African American gentleman wearing a bowler hat. 2.5" x 3.5." Housed in brown leather booklet. Close-up black & white photograph of a young African American man in a white shirt and an overcoat and boler hat; he looks directly at the camera and appears rather.....
19th century Tintype Photograph of African American woman wearing a beautiful pleated Victorian dress .The woman in the picture is posed standing and dress and hat. Her fashion appears to be the immediate post-Civil War era. The emancipation of slaves and the 13th amendment in 1865 coincided with tintypes enjoying.....
Photo Album of African American military family from Toledo, Ohio. 1980-90s. 85 photos, most of them polaroids, showing family life, a vacation to a Las Vegas casino, school graduations and military service. Blue spiral-bound album measures 10 x 11.5 inches. Photos mounted to 10 pages. Album also includes ID cards.....
7 silver gelatin photos of African American Navy service members 1942-1945. Photos measure from 2.5" x 3.5" to 8" x 10". One picture captures an all African American squad disembarking from a landing boat, with a caption on verso stating: "Negro Seabees Train in Landing Operations East Coast - Members.....
Large silver gelatin photo of African American cadet midshipmen at the U.S Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois. 1943. Photo measures 19.5 x 8 inches. 131 young African American men pose in tight rows in crisp Naval uniforms, their expressions sharp and distinct, a range of emotions visible across.....
[African American MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.] Eight portraits and drawings by a talented African American artist in the Navy Charles "Chewy" Myers. Various sizes 12" x 9" to 14" x 11". Various places, 1943-1966. Charles Thomas "Chewy" Myers (1923-2001) was born and raised in Gettysburg, PA, and served in the Navy.....
FURR, Arthur. Democracy's Negroes. Boston, Massachusetts: The House of Edinboro, 1947. 315pp. 12mo. Black and white photographs throughout. Signed and dated by Furr with a note to a friend mentioned in the dedication. The inscription reads "To Mr. Monroe Mason. A former co-author, war buddy and friend who has done.....
[CIVIL RIGHTS]. "Heritage Week / Sprit of '76". American Freedom Train Very Large banner. 1976. This banner measures 35 x 46 1/2. The banner is printed cotton muslin with brass grommets in each corner. There was a Freedom Train in 1947-1949 that became entangled in "Jim Crow" laws in the.....
[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. Archive of 11 items, mostly original silver gelatin press photographs of high profile African Americans, including civil rights attorney Arthur Shores, Stevie Wonder, and Jesse Jackson. The photos are from UPI. Includes 7 x 9 in. silver gelatin photograph of Arthur Shores with note stating his home was.....
The Negro Cowboys. Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones. Dodd, Mead and Company: New York, 1965. First edition. 278 pages, Hardcover Measures 6 x 8 inches. Original dust jacket shows a group of men on horseback, their faces obscured in shadow. The text begins, "Now they are forgotten, but once.....
[African American Education] Tuskegee University felt pennant. Measuring 28' in length. Tuskegee Institute, now known as Tuskegee University, is a private historically Black University, founded by notable Black educator, Booker T. Washington. Washington gradually attracted notable scholars to Tuskegee, including the botanist George Washington Carver, would become President of the.....
[AFRICAN AMERICAN HBCU ] Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph of a Class at HBCU Wiley College, 1946. Black and white photo of Professor Smith and 18 students. 5 x 6 ¾ in. Captioned recto center bottom image “Prof Smith and his German Class”. Handwritten in black in on verso: “Summer Class.....
[African-American][Japanese-American][Native American][Mexican-American][Chinese-American][Civil Liberty] New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1944. 5.25" x 8.25". 79 pages. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws.....
[African American] [Education] 2 original press photographs related to integrating Little Rock Central High School and the University of Alabama. n.d. [1957], 1965. Silver gelatin print photographs, 8 x 10”. Both images include original, typed press captions printed in image margins. Little Rock photo shows NAACP leaders including Daisy Bates.....
[African American -Ebonics Poetry],[Slavery and Abolition] A.C. Gordon and Thomas Nelson Page . Befo' De War: Echoes in Negro Dialect. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. First edition. Written in African American Ebonics. 132 pages. Quarter bound in brown and tan cloth hardcovers with dark brown lettering on front board.....
Club teaches African-American girls about Home Economics, Gardening, Social, and Civic Responsibility. C. 1920s. Negro Girls’ Club Record Book. Published by Georgia State College of Agriculture in Athens, Georgia. 20 pages. 9 x 5.75 in. Original printed wrappers. “Use this book to keep a record of al the club work.....
[African-American Photography] A silver gelatin photograph of an African-American baptism held on Charlotte, North Carolina farmland. Dated July 3, 1921. Measuring at 3" x 4.5". A multitude of African-American families congregate beside a lake on a lush farm, witnessing a baptism. African-American baptisms in the South were typically held in.....
[African American] Original sheet music for "Eliza's Flight", a notable scene from Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Written by Miss M.A. Collier. Music by E.J. Loder. Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1852. Measuring 13.25” x 10”. 3 pages. The front cover illustrates a momentous scene from the later adaptations.....
[African-American Military][African-American Education] The Kentucky State College Program of Training For The Veteran. Frankfort: Kentucky State College, circa 1950. Measures 8.5" x 11". 3 pages. An official pamphlet inviting African-American veterans of World War II to pursue a bachelor's degree at Kentucky State College. Kentucky State College is the oldest.....
William E. Anderson. “Thesis Writing: A Guide for the Preparation of the Master’s Thesis”. Montgomery Alabama: The Paragon Press, 1947. Paper wrappers, 56 pages, 9 x 6 in. First edition. Stapled blue wrappers; small name stamp in center and all four corners on front and back wrappers. Pamphlet outlines basic.....
Kelly Miller. Educator-Author-Scholar-Orator. “Kelly Miller spent fifty-four years of his life at Howard University which was the center and love of his devotion. Without question he became generally accepted as the foremost advocate of Higher Education for Negroes.” 1 sheet. 4 x 9.5 in. Photo-illustrate portrait of Miller. Dean of.....