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BIOGRAPHY Portrait not available Explore the life, work and source references. BIOGRAPHY Arts & Performance 1777–1825
Moses Williams (c. 1777 – c. 1830) was a formerly enslaved African American visual artist who made tens of thousands of silhouettes for visitors to Peale's Philadelphia Museum. He was associated with Philadelphia-based artist Charles Willson Peale.
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Read biography → BIOGRAPHY Portrait not available Explore the life, work and source references. BIOGRAPHY Biography & Culture 1918–2023
Mozart Mimms (April 30, 1918-March 18, 2023) was a Canadian-American trade unionist. Born in 1918 in Allensville, Kentucky, he was the youngest of 8 children. His parents were tobacco farmers and his grandparents had been held in slavery.
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Read biography → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. MUSEUM OBJECT Slavery and Freedom Objects early 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG A tin mud pan. The pan is rectangular in shape with tapered sides and ends. The top edges of the pans are curled under and the short ends have visible folds in the sheet metal that form the shape of the pan.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog 2017.108.23.89
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. MUSEUM OBJECT Slavery and Freedom Objects 19th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG A curb iron mule bit crafted by an unidentified enslaved person from a unidentified plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. The purchase has two (2), round curb strap rings attached to a small chain. Below is a ported mouthpiece and a shank ending in two…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog 2017.108.24.1
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. MUSEUM OBJECT Slavery and Freedom Objects 19th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG A mule snubber with a handle and an elongated horseshoe-shaped snubber attachment. The handle and snubber have been formed from two (2) pieces of flat metal with squared edges that has been bent to form the sides of the snubber and are welded together to…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog 2017.108.23.61
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records 2004 November 5
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Original Carousel number, 1, Slide number, 56.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0053
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & documents Jan. 1864–Oct. 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “Muster Rolls and Payrolls of Employees at Freedmen's Hospitals”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, Item 2.4.12.1
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Archival documents & files Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Unbound muster rolls and payrolls of employees at freedmen's hospitals, January 1864–October 1867, are arranged chronologically.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 2.4.12
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. MUSEUM OBJECT narratives 1857
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Hardcover book entitled "My Bondage and My Freedom" with an illustration of Frederick Douglass as frontispiece. This slave narrative is dedicated to Gerrit Smith.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog 2011.43.2
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Myra Miller (c. 1811–1891) was an African-American food entrepreneur and baker in Atlanta during Reconstruction. Miller was born in Virginia in about 1811. She was enslaved and sold as a cook to someone in Rome, Georgia.
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Read biography → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & documents 1865–1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “N – R”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M1048, Item 4.1.2.9
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Archival documents & files 1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “N – S”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M999, File 8.2.3
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & documents 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “N – T”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M1048, Item 4.1.4.4
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Archival documents & files Nov. 1866–Feb. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “N – V”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M843, File 4.2.3
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & documents 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “N – W”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, Item 5.16.9.3
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & documents 1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “N – Y”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M1904, Item 2.4.3.4
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Archival documents & files Oct. 1866–May 1869
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “N – Y”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M803, File 4.1.3
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & documents 1869
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “N – Z”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M1908, Item 2.1.5.3.3
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Archival documents & files May 16-Dec. 30, 1865
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “Name and Subject Index (65) to Volume 1”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M742, File 1.1.1
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Archival documents & files Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “Name and Subject Index (68) to Volume 3”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M742, File 1.3.1
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Archival documents & files Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “Name and Subject Index (7)”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M803, File 3.3.1
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Archival documents & files Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “Name and Subject Index (70) to Volume 4”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M742, File 1.4.1
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Archival documents & files Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “Name and Subject Index (72) to Volume 5”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M742, File 1.5.1
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Archival documents & files Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “Name and Subject Index (N – Z) to Registers 4 and 5”.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.4.1
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