A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown, dressed in black and his back to the viewer. He is talking to three of his children, who form a half circle near and around him. Brown’s daughter to…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.6.1.5
A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown, dressed in black and standing on the right side of the print in front of a black ladder. He has a rifle in each hand and is handing the guns to three…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.6.1.6
A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown, dressed in black and seated at the head of a round table with two other persons. His arms are crossed on another on top of the table. One person has…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.6.1.7
A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts three mountain peaks, each a different color. From back to front, the peaks are green, brown and red with black shadowing in each of them. The sky is blue, light…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.6.1.8
A screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts the black frame of a house with a yellow table and chair inside. The house sits on a tan and red hill under a light blue sky. At the top of a hill, a figure is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.6.1.9
A black and white etching print with grey tones that depicts a scene of a drowning figure's hands holding a ship up above the waves of water. The rest of the figure is unseen beneath the surface. To the right, a Black female figure struggles face down…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.130.7
Noah Davis (March 1804–April 7, 1867) was a Baptist minister, who was a former enslaved person that purchased his and his family members' freedom. He established the Second Colored Baptist Church in Baltimore. He spoke at lectures in the north and…
An archival pigment print photograph of collaged images. At center, a cut out black-and-white photographic image of a woman standing in a light colored dress, her hands on her hips. Behind her is a large black silhouette of a kneeling figure, arms held…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.77.6
Norris Bumstead Herndon (July 15, 1897 – June 7, 1977) was a prominent African-American businessman, Harvard Business School MBA graduate, philanthropist, member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and second President of the historic African-American-owned…
A wooden nosing plane. There is uneven staining throughout, but most notably on the stock's proper left side. There is evidence of older dents, abrasions, and scratches, and there are newer abrasions on stock heel's bottom proper left side. In relief on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.8.25
A small, leather bond notebook. Written on the inside cover: [George T. Garrison/1st Lieut . & .A.R.L.M./55th Reg't Mass. Vol./Folly Island, S. C.,/Feb. 11th, 1864.] This appears to be a personal notebook kept by G.T. Garrison which contains notes on a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.115.3.37
The single–volume notice book, unnumbered, covers the month of December 1865. The entries in the volume are arranged in rough alphabetical order by person notified. The volume has a name index.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.22.5
A legal notice of judgment against George W. Davis in favor of George Schultz for $2,434.20 where Andrew County, Missouri sheriff Edward Rupell announces that he will sell enslaved persons belonging to Davis to settle his debt. The document consists of a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.77.12
Unbound oaths of amnesty dated February 1866 (6 items) are arranged and numbered in chronological order. The oaths of amnesty are the originals, and the texts were copied into Volume 72 mentioned above.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1901, File 3.5.8
The oaths of office of agents, superintendents, and clerks, December 1865–December 1868, are arranged by year and thereunder alphabetically by initial letter of employee's surname. Oaths were required by an act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. 502), for all…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M979, File 2.5.7
