The prop piano from the 2022 Broadway revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Prop is in the style of an upright piano and features relief panels depicting faces and figures of the Charles family's ancestors on the upper front board, upper front…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.23ab
Unbound property lists and restoration orders cover the period August 1865–April 1866. Lists of houses and tenements (August–December 1865), are arranged chronologically; property restoration orders (August 1865–April 1866), are arranged in chronological…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.34.14
An issue of the Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette published Thursday, July 28, 1791. The newspaper is a single folded page. On the back page, at top center, is a call for subscriptions that begins [Proposal for Republishing by Subscription,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2021.113.1.11
A provenance note (a) and label (b) related to an unspent cartridge from John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. The note was written by Civil War veteran Benjamin Holt Ticknor to document its chain of custody. The note, written on the back of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.84.3ab
A large metal pry bar, also known as a claw bar. The pry bar has a wedge-shaped end with a straight flat edge and a curved end with two flattened points and a small fissure in between for nail removal. The back of the curved end is stepped at the fulcrum.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.25
A single sheet Puerto Rican Spanish language form titled [Empadronamiento General de Esclavos] ("General Registration of Slaves"). The form is printed on both sides in black ink and completed by hand on the recto in brown ink. Across the top of recto is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.1.224
A Spanish-language printed Register of Slaves form [2508] for an enslaved person identified as Julian Charó, completed with handwritten black ink and affixed with a stamp. The heading reading [REGISTRO DE ESCLAVOS] is cut off at the top. The document is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.1.4.2
A pulpit from the Metropolitan AME Church, consisting of a hollow, three-sided structure composed of multiple pieces of wood that show different techniques, ages, and varnishes. The front of the pulpit features two arches separated by a piece of wood and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.104.6
Pyrrhus Concer (March 17, 1814 – August 23, 1897) was a formerly enslaved American sailor from Southampton, New York who was aboard the whaling ship Manhattan, the first American ship to visit Tokyo in 1845.
Unbound quarterly returns of property, weekly reports of payments, and monthly reports of persons and articles hired, 1872–1878, are arranged by type of report and thereunder chronologically.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M2029, File 1.11.5
Unbound quarterly returns of public property, weekly reports of payments, and monthly reports of persons and articles hired, 1872–1876, are arranged by type of report and thereunder chronologically.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M2029, File 1.9.5
The single volume of quartermaster accounts of money and materials disbursed to government plantations, April 1863–February 1865, is arranged chronologically and thereunder by subject.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.64.4
Unbound quartermaster reports and returns, May 1865–March 1868, are arranged chronologically. This series includes receipt rolls of clothing issued to refugees, lists of stores, returns of stores, abstracts of stores, stationery abstracts, abstracts of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1911, File 3.25.11
