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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of A. Peter Bailey and Rebekah S. Otto in Bailey’s home

May 23, 2023

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A digital image of journliast A. Peter Bailey and University of Maryland student Rebekah S. Otto in Bailey’s home in Washington D.C. Otto interviewed Bailey for the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project. The full-length image captures Bailey…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.1.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of A. Peter Bailey in his home

May 23, 2023

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A digital image of journalist A. Peter Bailey in his home in Washington D.C. The image captures Bailey up close as he looks forward but slightly above the camera. He wears a multi-color patterned shirt, likely a Kente textile, and a scarf with the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.1.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a protester and a priest during the March on Washington

August 28, 1963; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a protester and a priest participating in the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. The man on the right of the image is depicted with his back to the viewer, standing with his hands clasped…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.1.9
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a small child playing with two cats at the Rock Rest Tourist Home

1970-1989

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A color photograph of a small child playing with two cats on the porch of the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The child is seated cross-legged in the corner of a porch, just to the right of a white metal door. The child is wearing a yellow shirt and a maroon coat…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.54.9
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gelatin silver prints

Photograph of a solider guarding a looted store in the Newark Riots

July 1967

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A black-and-white photograph of an armed soldier standing guard with his gun raised in front of a looted store, Belmont Prescription Pharmacy, during the 1967 Newark riots.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.57.10.8
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a student participating in the March on Washington

August 28, 1963; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a student participating in the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. The student is depicted in profile. He is wearing a white button down shirt with thin stripes under a white jacket. There is a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.1.19
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a volunteer attending children, Coretta Scott King Day Care Center

1968; printed October 6, 2017

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An inkjet print depicting a black-and-white image of a volunteer attending two (2) toddlers playing on a tricycle at the Poor People’s Campaign’s Coretta Scott King Day Care Center. The female volunteer is centrally depicted, leaning over the tricycle,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.113.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a Wellington Webb T-shirt draped on a Webb yard sign

ca. 1995

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Color photograph of a yard sign with a white t-shirt hanging over top. The sign is seen in an outdoor setting, centrally positioned in the photograph. The white shirt has black text [The race is not always/to the swift…/but to those who/keep running./WEBB…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.46.6
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a white woman leading her child away from Graymont School

1963

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Black-and-white photograph of a white woman leading a young child by the hand away from a school. Sign at front of school reads, [GRAYMONT SCHOOL]. Type along right side of photograph reads, [BXP091005-9/10/63-BIRMINGHAM, ALA. :White mother angrily tows…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.312.214
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a woman and the body of Billy Furr, shot by police in Newark Riots

July 1967

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A black-and-white photograph depicting a woman in a white dress and dark-colored shoes crouched next to and reaching for a person lying on the sidewalk. The person on the sidewalk appears to be shot in the back and is bleeding. Behind the woman, legs and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.57.10.11
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a woman in front of a protest sign during the March on Washington

August 28, 1963; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a woman participating in the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. The woman is centrally depicted wearing a white blouse and a medium toned side cap. She is facing the left side of the image. In…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.1.29
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a woman participating in the March on Washington

August 28, 1963; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a woman participating in the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. The woman is centrally depicted wearing a white blouse, a medium toned side cap, and a ring on a chain around her neck. She is…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.1.30
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a woman participating in the March on Washington

August 28, 1963; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a woman participating in the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. The woman is centrally depicted wearing a white blouse, a medium toned side cap, and a ring on a chain around her neck. She is…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.1.31
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a woman participating in the March on Washington

August 28, 1963; printed 2013

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a woman participating in the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. The woman is depicted on the right side of the image wearing a white collared shirt. She is smiling, facing the viewer, over the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.1.33
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a woman riding a mule

1950-1969

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A black-and-white photograph of a woman riding a mule. She is depicted on the right side of the image, sitting side saddle, with her face turned towards the viewer. She is wearing a light-colored, collared dress and a white hat with a banded crown, and a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.54.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a woman standing on a porch at Rock Rest Tourist Home

mid 20th century

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A black-and-white photograph of a woman standing on a porch at Rock Rest Tourist Home. The woman is standing at the corner of the veranda tending to a flower arrangement resting on top of the spindle railing. She is facing the viewer wearing a white, short…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.54.7
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a Young Lords Party march commemorating the Ponce massacre

March 21, 1971; printed 2014

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This image shows a commemorative march held by the Young Lords in the Bronx on March 21, 1971. The participants march in organized lines down the center of a city street, their proper right arms held out to their sides. The photo is taken in the center of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.220.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a Young Lords Party Rally at Queens County Jail

1969; printed 2014

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This image shows a large crowd of standing individuals at a Black Panthers and Young Lords Party rally. Most are pictured in profile, facing the left side of the image, with a fist raised, or their hands cupped around their mouths, and appear to be yelling…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.220.1
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a young woman demonstrating use of voting machine

1956

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A black-and-white photograph of two unidentified women at the Citizenship Education Project office in San Francisco, CA. The woman on the right, a member of the NCNW Junior Council, demonstrates the use of a voting machine as the woman on the left looks…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.32
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Ambassador Pamela Bridgewater and Coretta Scott King

ca. 1994

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A color photograph of Consul General of Durban Pamela E. Bridgewater with Coretta Scott King. Captured at an outdoor event, the two women are pictured standing looking sightly to the right of frame. Bridgewater wears a white double-breasted suit dress, and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.51.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Art Industrial Club presentation to Frances Albrier

June 15, 1962

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A black-and-white photograph of the Art Industrial Club presentation to Frances Albrier. The photograph is located between pages twelve (12) and thirteen (13) of Frances Albrier's scrapbook (2010.60.1).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.15
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Augusta Denson and children in a Poor People’s Campaign shelter

1968; printed October 6, 2017

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A black-and-white photograph of Augusta Denson, a Mississippi mother, and her children in a Poor People’s Campaign shelter living in Resurrection City in Washington, D.C. The woman is centrally depicted wearing a light toned, striped, short sleeve, button…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.113.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of B.C. Franklin and unidentified men in Ardmore, Oklahoma

1910

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A photograph of lawyer B.C. Franklin (far right) and three unidentified men in Ardmore, Oklahoma, 1910. The men are pictured standing in front of the building that housed Franklin's law office. A horse drawn buggy is on the street in front of the men. The…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.176.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of B.C. Franklin, I.H. Spears, and Effie Thompson

June 6, 1921

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A black and white photograph of B.C. Franklin (right) and I. H. Spears (left), with Secretary Effie Thompson (center), in their temporary tent office after the Tulsa Race Riot, 1921. Franklin and Spears sit on either end of a desk facing the camera. They…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.176.2
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