Unbound oaths of office of assistant surgeons and hospital attendants, 1865–68, are arranged in two subseries (surgeons and attendants) and thereunder alphabetically by initial letter of surname of employee.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1910, File 3.4.17
Rev. Obediah Summers (1844 – 1896), was an American minister, an American Civil War veteran, and chaplain. He was born enslaved, and briefly worked in servitude within the Confederate States Army, before electing to join the Union Army.
Manuscript of the dramatic poem "Ocean," written by Phillis Wheatley during her voyage from London, England to Boston, Massachusetts in 1773. The poem is titled at the top of the page and consists of 70 lines in flowing cursive handwriting over four pages.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.82.1
Octavia Rogers Albert (December 24, 1853 – August 19, 1889) was an African-American author and biographer. She documented slavery in the United States through a collection of interviews with formerly enslaved people in her book The House of Bondage, or…
Fifth edition copy of Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, from Eight to Fifteen Years of Age by Caleb Bingham and printed in 1809 by Lincoln and Edmands in Boston, Massachusetts. Phillis Wheatley is mentioned on page 57, where the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2021.113.1.17
A documentary film with the title "The Black Soldier," from the television series Of Black America. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white 16mm acetate film with optical sound. The third segment of a seven-part docu-series on CBS, The Black…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.70.1a
Illustrated page from Harper's Weekly. The off-white discolored paper features an image in black ink. It depicts two men threatening an unarmed man with pistols. The man on the proper right side is wearing a dark jacket, a shirt, trousers, a hat with a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.160.64
A clear glass oil lamp base from the Jones-Hall-Sims House. The body, or font, of the lamp is a lozenge shape, smooth with one (1) horizontal ridge line around the top. The font connects to a thick lamp stem with a vertical rib pattern that widens into a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.25.5
Oku Ekpenyon MBE is a British campaigner and former history teacher who is founder and chair of the charity Memorial 2007 (MEM2007), advocating over two decades for the establishment of Britain's first permanent national memorial to honour the millions of…
Elizabeth (c. 1766 – June 11, 1866) was an African-American Methodist preacher and former slave. She orated a popular slave narrative about her life, titled Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Colored Woman, which primarily discussed her faith. It has been referred…
Color picture postcard depicting an elderly man sitting on a bench in front of a wooden cabin. The man holds his hat in his hands. Flowering vines grow up the side of the cabin. At bottom center of front is [Old Plantation Cabin Louisiana]. Black…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.312.184
Oliver Toussaint "O.T." Jackson (April 6, 1862 – February 8, 1948) was an American businessman and entrepreneur, who, inspired by Booker T. Washington's autobiography Up from Slavery, formed Dearfield, Colorado, founded a self-sufficient agricultural…
Omar ibn Said (Arabic: عمر بن سيد, romanized: ʿUmar bin Saeed or Omar ben Saeed; c. 1770–1864) was a Fula Muslim scholar from Futa Toro in West Africa (present-day Senegal), who was enslaved and transported to the United States in 1807 during the…
An edition of Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1773, edited and published by David Henry in London. Page 456 features the poem "On Recollection" by Phillis Wheatley and includes a small review that partly reads: [This piece is taken from a small…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2021.113.1.3
An issue of The Arminian Magazine for August 1789. The issue features the 20-line poem “On the Death of a Child, Five Years of Age” and attributes it as [By Phillis Wheatly, a negro]. Previously bound, possibly as part of a larger volume of Arminian…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2021.113.1.10
Ona Judge Staines (c. 1773 – February 25, 1848), also known as Oney Maria Judge Staines, was a biracial enslaved woman who escaped from George Washington's presidential household, and eluded capture by him and by Martha Washington's relatives. She was born…
A round one cent token made from mixed metals featuring text advertising the several businesses of William W. Wilbur. Raised text on the recto and a central motif are largely obscured from corrosion. The letters "W. W. W..." and the year 1846 are the only…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.30
The operations reports from subordinate officers, June 1865–December 1868, are arranged chronologically. They usually were submitted monthly, although some quarterly reports are included. Some are reports of the number of destitute people in the subdistrict.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M979, File 1.6.2
