A solid style, sand cast, hand molded, partial brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape and its color ranges from reddish brown to grayish brown in color. The brick is missing a significant portion from one header…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.21.32
A solid style partial brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape and is a bright reddish brown that is heavily mottled with dark reddish-brown discolorations. The brick is missing a corner and about one half of one of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.21.33
A solid style, sand cast partial brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape and is a reddish brown that is heavily mottled with grayish brown and black discolorations. The brick is missing one header and about half of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.21.34
A large partial brick, made by an enslaved person, from an unknown architectural structure in Charleston, South Carolina. It is a solid style, sand cast brick. The rectangular brick is dark reddish brown in color with worn surfaces and edges. The header…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.21.14
A free woman's pass for Harriet Lawson, a free black woman, to visit her husband Caleb Lawson, signed in Frederick County, Maryland, on May 21, 1832. Davis Richardson is listed as the witness. The pass is on a single sheet of paper. There is handwriting in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.63.7
This pastry jagger/ utensil has a round spiked circle at one end. The opposite end has a sharp triangular point that is bent inward. Mid-way between the triangular section and the circle is a metal flange bent inward along the handle. Both inward bent…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.20.18
A rare broadside supplement to the Cincinnati Gazette, "Patience on a Monument," shows a freed slave sitting atop a monument that lists evils perpetrated against blacks. A dead woman and children lie at the bottom of the monument, while violence and fires…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.77.5
Patricia C. McKissack (née Carwell; August 9, 1944 – April 7, 2017) was a prolific African-American children's writer. She was the author of more than 100 books, including Dear America books A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl; Color Me…
