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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 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 Aaron Molyneaux Hewlett, gymnasium coach of Harvard University

1859-1871

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This photographic print depicts Aaron Molyneaux Hewlett, the first African American gymnasium coach at Harvard University. Hewlett is seated and is surrounded by a variety of exercise equipment. He wears a striped three-piece suit and a dark necktie. The…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.174.9
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Alpha Iota Chapter, Wiley College

1932

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A sepia print of the Alpha Iota Chapter at Wiley College in 1932. There are 20 women in four rows, on the exterior stairs of a brick building (3 in front row, 6 in second row, 7 in third row, and 4 in back row). All of the women are wearing dresses and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.43.3
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gelatin silver prints

Photograph of Amos Harper "off to school"

ca. 1910

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This black and white oval photograph depicts a boy in a suit with short pants. He wears a light colored, double breasted suit jacket with dark pinstripes, and matching knee-length pants. He wears a tie, high dark sock, and dark shoes. Holding a dark hat in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.30.6
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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 Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Isabella Salcedo at Spelman College

March 19, 2024

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activist, Isabella Salcedo, at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, which Guy-Sheftall…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.13.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College

March 19, 2024

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, which she helped establish. The image captures Guy-Sheftall sitting and looking directly into the camera, smiling and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.13.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College

March 19, 2024

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, which she helped establish. The image captures Guy-Sheftall sitting and looking directly into the camera, smiling and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.13.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College

March 19, 2024

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center, which she helped establish. The image captures Guy-Sheftall sitting and looking directly into the camera, smiling and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.13.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Beverly Guy-Sheftall with NMAAHC scholar activists

March 19, 2024

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A digital image of educator and Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy-Sheftall with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activists, Isabella Salcedo and Phoebe Linnell, at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.13.6
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Carole Mumin and Ibrahim Mumin at NMAAHC

March 5, 2024

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A digital image of playwright and community activist Carole Mumin with her husband, fellow activist Ibrahim Mumin, at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The couple sit side-by-side. Mumin, on the left, wears a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.11.2
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Photograph of Carole Mumin at NMAAHC

March 5, 2024

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A digital image of playwright and community activist Carole Mumin at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Mumin wears a purple, beige, and blue illusion-like garment with a matching headscarf. Her hands are also clasped…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.11.3
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Photograph of Carole Mumin at NMAAHC

April 3, 2024

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A digital image of playwright and community activist Carole Mumin at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The image captures Mumin sitting. She wears a black-and-red embossed jacket with paisley-like patterns and a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.16.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Carole Mumin, Ibrahim Mumin, and Isabella Salcedo at NMAAHC

March 5, 2024

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A digital image of playwright and community activist Carole Mumin with her husband, fellow activist Ibrahim Mumin, and National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activist, Isabella Salcedo, at NMAAHC. Salcedo interviewed Carole Mumin…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.11.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Charles Black and his daughters at Clark Atlanta University

March 20, 2024

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A digital image of activist and actor Charles Black and his two daughters, Julie Fusel and Yvette Black Moore, at Clark Atlanta University. The image captures Black sitting and the two women flanking him from behind, each other their outer hands clasping…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.14.3
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Photograph of Charles Black and Phoebe Linnell at Clark Atlanta University

March 20, 2024

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A digital image of activist and actor Charles Black with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activist, Phoebe Linnell at Clark Atlanta University. Linnell interviewed Black for the Social Justice Conversations Oral History…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.14.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Charles Black at Clark Atlanta University

March 20, 2024

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A digital image of activist and actor Charles Black at Clark Atlanta University. The image captures Black sitting and looking directly into the camera, smiling. He wears a yellow quarter-zip yellow with dark brown pants. On the proper left collar flap,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.14.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Charles E. Cobb and Kiersten Simon at Cobb’s home

August 2, 2023

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A digital image of journalist Charles E. Cobb and Louisiana State University student Kiersten Simon at Cobb’s home in Jacksonville, Florida. Simon interviewed Cobb for the Social Justice Conversations Oral History Project. The image captures both being…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.6.3
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Photograph of Charles E. Cobb at his home

August 2, 2023

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A digital image of journalist Charles E. Cobb at his home in Jacksonville, Florida. The image captures Cobb sitting in a horseshoe-shaped chair. Cobb has his proper right leg crossed over his proper left leg. His proper left hand rests on his proper right…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.6.2
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Photograph of Charles E. Cobb at his home

August 2, 2023

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A digital image of journalist Charles E. Cobb at his home in Jacksonville, Florida. The image captures Cobb sitting in a horseshoe-shaped chair. Cobb wears a bronze-and-black, abstract patterned shirt and glasses. His head is slightly tilted to his proper…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.6.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Chase County High School (Kansas) baseball team

ca. 1907

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A black and white team photograph of baseball players from Chase County High School in Kansas. There are three (3) rows of boys. The two (2) boys in the front row center are sitting cross-legged and the two (2) boys on the sides are lying on their sides,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.94.1
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of citizenship education class at San Francisco NCNW headquarters

1956

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A black-and-white photograph depicting a class on citizenship education given jointly by the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women and the League of Women Voters at the NCNW headquarters at 1914 Fillmore St. Several women and one man…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.41
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