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Science & Inventions

Phoebe Stubblefield

Biography

Phoebe Stubblefield is an American forensic anthropologist specializing in human skeletal variation, human identification, and paleopathology. She is currently the Interim Director of the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory at the University of…

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Photographs and Still Images

Photo of Citizenship Education Project brunch held in the home of Lurline White

October 14, 1956

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A black-and-white photograph of a brunch held by Lurline White on behalf of the National Council of Negro Women and their Citizenship Education Project. The typewritten caption below the photograph reads, "MRS. LURLINE WHITE, ALOCAL [sic] NCNW MEMBER SELLS…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.30
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Photographs and Still Images

Photo of press meeting with the coordinator of the Citizenship Education Project

1956-1957

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A black-and-white photograph of a press meeting with the coordinator of the Citizenship Education Project at the CEP headquarters at 1914 Fillmore Street in San Francisco. The coordinator, Floyd G. Allen, is seated left behind a desk, with five San…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.29
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph album of Booker T. Washington High School classes from the 1920s

1917-1978

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A forty two page (21 Leaves) photo album. The cover is red with gold lettering that reads “ALBUM.” A piece of tape on the cover is labeled with “Class of the 20’s.” The album contains color photographs of class reunions of Booker T. Washington classes from…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.79.31
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph album of Booker T. Washington High School Queen and King Hornet

1934-1967

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A forty two page (twenty-one leaves) photograph album. The cover is blue with a gold decorative border. The photograph has three metal rings for an inside binding. It contains black and white photographs with typed labels and a newspaper clipping. The…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.79.30
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Slavery and Freedom Objects

Photograph album owned by Emily Howland

1864

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Black leather photograph album owned by Emily Howland containing photographs of friends, family, and celebrities. The album covers and binding are made from embossed black leather with gold gilt decorations on the covers and spine. Both covers are the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.30
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph carte-de-visite of R.T. Greener

July 1865

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Photographic carte-de-visite of Richard T. Greener, who in 1870 became the first African American graduate of Harvard College. Underneath the photo is the subject's name, [R.T. Greener / Boston / Mass]. Greener is in the center of the card as a portrait…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.105.23
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Historical photographs & visual records

Photograph: large portrait of Constance Stuart Larrabee in short-sleeved blouse and school tie. [silvertone print] [crease in upper right-hand corner] Removed to vintage print box.

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Cataloged as “Photograph: large portrait of Constance Stuart Larrabee in short-sleeved blouse and school tie. [silvertone print] [crease in upper right-hand corner] Removed to vintage print box.”.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item 974
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of 1st Class of Advanced Civilian Pilot Training Program

1940

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A black-and-white photograph group portrait of the 1st Class of Advanced Civilian Pilot Training Program, captured in front of a monument to Booker T. Washington on the campus of Tuskegee University. Pictured are two instructors and ten students: Sherman…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.21.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a bas-relief image of Booker T. Washington

1930-1950

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A black-and-white gelatin silver print of a Booker T. Washington bas-relief from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The figure of Washington is wearing a suit and bow tie and looking to his left with his left arm outstretched. His right…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.79.1
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a basketball game at St. Augustine High School

1960s - 1970s

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Black & white photograph of a basketball game. This image depicts three students; two in white jerseys and one in a dark colored uniform. One student, wearing a white uniform, dribbles the ball as he runs up the court. He is guarded by a student in a dark…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.47.9
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a coffee hour for leading San Francisco ministers held by the NCNW

1956

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A black-and-white photograph of a coffee hour for San Francisco ministers held by the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women at their headquarters at 1914 Fillmore St. Four women are standing with five men (presumably ministers)…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.40
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a crowd of participants during the March on Washington

August 28, 1963; printed later

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a large crowd of participants standing behind barrier fencing during in the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. Many of the people in the crowd are holding protest signs related to education,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.123.1.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a federal jobs training program

1936-1937

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Black-and-white photograph (a) of a group of eleven people in front of a door to a brick building. Several of the people are holding folders. The back of the photograph has a handwritten inscription on the back in black ink identifying the subjects in the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.79.18ab
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a girl named Gladys in cap and gown

1910s

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A black-and-white photograph of a girl named Gladys by Hooks Bros. Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. The portrait captures the girl from the chest up as she looks slightly to the right while wearing a cap and gown. The photograph has a rectangular, tan mat…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.12
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a Guilford County school bus and school children

ca. 1916

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A black and white photograph of a covered school bus with spoked wheels with [No. 2 / Guilford County Schools], stenciled on the side of the bus. A young girl wearing a white dress is climbing into the back of the bus and other children can be seen through…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.94.9
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a Meet the Candidates program sponsored by the San Francisco NCNW

October 28, 1956

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A black-and-white photograph of a Meet the Candidates program held by the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women in an attempt to connect candidates with their constituency. The program took place at the NCNW headquarters at 1914…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.48
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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 journalist 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 mid-length image captures Bailey and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.1.4
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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 St. Augustine graduate kissing the ring of a Josephite priest

after 1951

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Black and white photograph of a kneeling student kissing a ring of a robed clergy member wearing a biretta. The student, wearing a graduation robe and mortarboard, kneels in front of a row of seated clergy dressed in full ecclesiastic robes. He kneels on a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.47.10
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a St. Augustine High School student drawing in art class

early 1960s

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Black & white photograph of a St. Augustine High School student at a drawing board. This photograph is taken over the left shoulder of a student as he sits at a drawing board. The young man, wearing a herringbone pattern blazer and collared shirt, creates…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.47.11
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of a St. Augustine sports team

after 1951

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Black & white photograph of a St. Augustine sports team. In this image, six men stand in a semicircle facing the camera. Five of the men are young, one man, third from the left, is middle aged and wears a team jacket with the word "Coach" written within…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.47.13
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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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