A sad iron with a metal handle. The iron is triangular in shape with a rounded iron handle attached to the body. The handle has six grooves on the top. The metal is black in color.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.25.18.2
Sadie Roberts-Joseph (1944 – July 12, 2019) was an American community activist and founder of the Baton Rouge Odell S. Williams Now & Then Museum of African-American History in 2001. She was also the founder of a non-profit organization, Community Against…
A small marquise shaped flat iron with handle. The metal sadiron is made from a single piece of iron. The object is heavily corroded. No identifying marks are visible.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.95
A four page, loose leaf Spanish language manuscript handwritten in ink describing the sale of one enslaved woman and a transfer of authority at the Convent of Santo Domingo in colonial New Spain (today Mexico). The manuscript contains two documents split…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.26.14.3ab
A four page Spanish language manuscript handwritten in ink describing the sale of a lot in colonial New Spain’s Cuidad de Los Ángeles (today Puebla, Mexico). The first and third page are numbered in the upper right corner. The first and fourth page are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.26.14.4
A four page Spanish language manuscript handwritten in ink describing the sale of two enslaved men in colonial New Spain’s Ciudad de Los Angeles (today Puebla, Mexico). The first and fourth page are stamped with two seals in the upper left cover and have…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.26.14.1.1
A four page Spanish language manuscript handwritten in ink describing the sale of two enslaved men in colonial New Spain’s Cuidad de Los Angeles (today Puebla, Mexico). The first and fourth page are stamped with two seals in the upper left cover and have…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.26.14.1.2
A four page Spanish language manuscript handwritten in ink describing the sale of two enslaved men and a one house in colonial New Spain’s Cuidad de Los Angeles (today Puebla, Mexico). The first and fourth page are stamped with two seals in the upper left…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.26.14.2
