Trenton State Prison inmates photographed during the late twentieth century documenting daily life inside New Jersey’s maximum security correctional institution between 1963 and 1991. Trenton State Prison, one of the oldest operating prisons in the United States, served as the state’s primary maximum security facility housing prisoners convicted of the.....
Black motorcycle photo archive documenting African American riders, police motor officers, and the motorcycle community in the postwar United States, primarily during the 1960s and 1970s. Motorcycles became important symbols of freedom, visibility, masculinity, and fellowship during this period, particularly as Black riders formed clubs, organized rides, and claimed public.....
[African American] [Latino History] [Criminal Justice] [Photography] Unidentified press photographers, War on Drugs photographs, 1974 to 1992 document law enforcement operations, arrests, and media coverage of drug enforcement in Texas during the expansion of federal and local anti narcotics campaigns. Produced for newspaper circulation by the Houston Chronicle and the.....
Unidentified police photographers, mugshot photograph archive, Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida, 1960s to 1970s, documenting law enforcement identification practices applied to African American men in urban contexts during the postwar period. The material documents criminal identification systems through standardized booking photography, revealing how individuals were processed and recorded by police.....
Rev. Consuella York at Cook County Jail and a white Christian minister visiting a Black incarcerated man in an unidentified jail, circa 1981, record how religious outreach functioned inside American carceral institutions as the War on Drugs accelerated jail and prison expansion. The strongest historical subject here is not religion.....
This original blueprint presents a detailed technical drawing for a streetcar trolley guard, designed and patented by African American inventor Robert C. Dickenson of Ohio. Patent awarded in 1919. Measuring 28" x 16", the blueprint includes precise illustrations, labeled components, and annotations specifying material requirements and finishing instructions. Key elements.....
This original blueprint presents a detailed technical drawing for a streetcar trolley guard, designed and patented by African American inventor Robert C. Dickenson of Ohio. Patent awarded in 1919. Measuring 28" x 16", the blueprint includes precise illustrations, labeled components, and annotations specifying material requirements and finishing instructions. Key elements.....
[AFRICAN AMERICAN Education] Robert R. Morton, President of Tuskegee Institute, Typed Letter Signed on official Tuskegee Institute letterhead. 1 page Dated March 9, 1917. Robert R. Morton, writes to W. A. Holmes of Virginia regarding funding for the school and to “help in the perpetuation of the Tuskegee Work” for.....
[African American] [Mug Shots] [Women] Photo archive of 4 African American Women mug shots. Two date from the 1960s in Miami and two date from the 1940s in Cleveland. 4 Silver gelatin photographs. The two from the 1960s measure 4" x 5." while the two from the 1940s measure 2.75".....
"Black Pride" preserves Don L. Lee’s poems at the point where his Chicago Black Arts voice was moving through Broadside Press’s inexpensive national poetry network. The dedication names Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, and John Coltrane as “innovators in their own way,” placing Lee’s poems inside a lineage of Black political.....
[Slavery & Abolition] This archive contains two British parliamentary acts addressing the suppression of the transatlantic slave trade. Both published in London by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode. The first document, “An Act to Continue an Act for Amending and Consolidating the Laws Relating to the Abolition of the Slave.....
Gilliam, Dr. E.W. Uncle Sam and the Negro in 1920. Lynchburg, Virginia: J.P. Bell Company. First edition, 1906. Original red cloth boards with gilt text. Frontispiece containing a black and white portrait photograph of Gilliam. 8vo. 469 pages. Uncle Sam and the Negro in 1920 presents a revealing and controversial.....
Gay Community News, Vol. 7, No. 2. July 28, 1979. 16 page newspaper. A significant issue of Gay Community News, a pioneering LGBTQ+ publication that played a vital role in shaping queer political discourse in the late 20th century. Published in Boston from 1973 to 1999, GCN was one of.....
