A black and white photograph of an unidentified boy seated at a desk in a kindergarten classroom. The boy is turned towards the camera, looking over his proper right shoulder. He holds a paper with both hands. His proper right hand also holds a writing…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.95
A black and white photograph of Carrie May Pittman. Pittman is featured from the chest up. She is mid-laugh and has her proper left hand raised in front of her mouth. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame by plastic photo corners. [Carrie Pittman /…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.56
A black and white photograph of Claudine Waller. Waller is featured from the chest up. Her body is turned towards the left of the photograph, while her head is turned directly towards the camera. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame by plastic…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.40
A black and white photograph of Clemmie Haynes. Haynes is featured from shoulders up and is looking directly at the camera. She is wearing a sweater with thick collar. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame by photograph corners. On the back of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.70
Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.119
A black and white photograph Eddie May Johnson. Johnson is featured from the shoulders up, wearing a light colored shirt and jacket, with her head turned toward the camera. A group of unidentified young adults is visible in the background of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.78
A black and white photograph of (from left to right) Sandra Waller, Edgar Earl Patton, Ilene Waller, Brady Patton, Leneatha Patton. The children are on top of a tractor. The photograph is inside a frame. The back of the frame has several inscriptions about…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.112
A black and white photograph of Edna Lou Ford. Ford is sitting on the edge of a stage wearing a striped jacket. The top of a metal folding chair is visible by her proper left foot. The photograph is mounted to a paper mat frame. Below the photograph…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.4
A black and white photograph of Edna Rae Newsome. Newsome is featured from the chest up. She is seated and looking towards the camera. She is wearing a striped shirt with a vest over it. Other unidentified young adults are partially visible in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.79
A black and white photograph of grammar school children preforming in a choir during a Christmas event. The photograph features a group of young girls in the foreground of the photograph. Most of the girls look towards the right of the photograph, while…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.76
A black and white photograph of (from left to right) Gwen Benjamin and Alice Irvin. Benjamin and Irvin stand shoulder to shoulder and look directly at the camera. Benjamin, on the left, wears a light colored jacket, while Irvin, on the right wears a dark…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.44
A black and white photograph of Gwen Toney. Toney is featured with her proper left hand pointing towards the camera and her eyes looking towards the right of the photograph. She is wearing a dress with three-quarter puffy sleeves. She is standing in front…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.77
A black and white photograph of Janice Johnson. Johnson is featured from the chest up. She stares directly at the camera and is wearing a sweater over a striped top. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame by plastic photograph corners. [Martha Olson]…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.43
A black and white photograph of Janice Johnson. Johnson is looking to the left of the photograph. She is wearing a corded jacket. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame in plastic photograph corners. [Janice Johnson / 1970 / Martha Olson] is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.63
A black and white photograph of Janice Johnson. Johnson is featured in profile and is looking towards the left of the photograph. She is wearing a dark shirt and corduroy jacket. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame. On the back of the photograph are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.71
A black and white photographic print of Katherine Robertson. Robertson is featured sitting on a parquet floor. She has her hands through her legs and placed on her feet. The photograph is mounted to a paper frame with clear paper corners. [Katherine…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.41
A black and white photograph of Lavada May. May is featured from the chest up. She stares directly at the camera and wears a collared top and necklace. The photograph is in a frame. The back of the frame has several inscriptions about the subject of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.10
A black and white photograph of Lavada May. She is featured from the shoulders up. May is looking directly at the camera. She is wearing a patterned shirt with a ruffled collar, hoop earrings, and a patterned headband. On the back of the photograph are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.80
A black and white photograph Lillie Pearl Haynes. Haynes is sitting in a rocking chair and looking towards the left of the photograph. The photograph is inside a frame. The back of the frame has several inscriptions about the subject of the photograph, the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.64
A black and white photograph of Loretta Peters and Eddie May Jefferson. Peters is featured in the foreground of the photograph. She is smiling and is turned toward the camera. Jefferson is in the background of the image and looking towards the right of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.73
Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.37
Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.25
A black and white photograph of Marion Allen Bell and Josephine Irvin. Bell is featured in the front of the photograph in a close-up. She looks directly at the camera and is wearing a shirt with a collar. Irvin is in the background of the photograph,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.21.42
