A digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting vegetation reclaiming quarter ditches in remnant rice fields. A single ditch runs vertically in the right half of the photograph, while multiple quarter ditches connect to it at 90-degree angles. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.55
A digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting “quarter ditches” in remnant rice fields adjacent a section of Folly Creek (South Carolina). The fields and surrounding vegetation appear deep green in contrast to the deep black of the waters flowing…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.82
A digital scan of a photograph depicting a section of the Combahee River near the Harriet Tubman Bridge in South Carolina. The left section of the photo features patches of trees that appear dark green in contrast to the adjacent light brown and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.48
A digital scan of a photograph depicting an old rice field canal on Bear Island, South Carolina. It features various species of birds swimming in the canal as well as flying above. Tall grasses flank both sides of the canal as it flows from the image’s…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.119
A digital scan of a photograph depicting a rice trunk along Cuckolds Creek in White Hall, South Carolina. The dark water in the foreground reflects the wooden planks of the rice trunk above and surrounding vegetation; ripples in the water partially distort…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.43
A digital scan of a photograph depicting a rice trunk along a section of Cuckolds Creek flowing through Myrtle Grove Plantation in White Hall, South Carolina. Ripples can be seen in the blackish-brown water that occupies much of the photograph’s…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.44
A digital scan of a photograph depicting the exposed flow gate of a rice trunk. A puddle of rippled water occupies the foreground, followed by muddy soil. The rice trunk, which is in the middle of the image, consists of four horizontal logs atop a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.45
A digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting an oxbow-shaped meander along the Combahee River, at the border of Beaufort and Colleton Counties. The water appears silverish at the ends and light blue toward the middle of the image, in contrast to the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.40
A digital scan of a photograph depicting swamplands in South Carolina. In the middle of the photograph, the murky water reflects the trunks of the surrounding trees, while along the edges, algae blooms create a green film on the water’s surface. The air…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.36
A digital scan of a photograph depicting “Carolina Gold” rice grains at Turnbridge Plantation. The bunch hangs from a plant that isn’t visible in the photo: only the brown outer hulls and a single leaf are in focus. The rest of the frame consists of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.31
A digital scan of a low aerial photograph depicting a section of Cuckolds Creek flowing through Cockfield Plantation in Colleton County, South Carolina. Most of the image features flat, brown grasslands, with the exception of the creek which meanders in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.39
A digital aerial photograph of cypress trees on the banks of the Combahee River. The trees, which are at eye level, appear as silhouettes against a purple sky. The Combahee River can be seen in the foreground reflecting the cypress trees as well as the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.34
A digital scan of a photograph depicting remnant “quarter ditches” near Cuckolds Creek in Colleton County, South Carolina. Much of the photograph consists of water flowing through a flooded field, with layers of grass visible just below the water’s…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.114
A digital scan of a photograph depicting rice fields at Turnbridge Plantation in South Carolina. The left and bottom edges show the water saturating the fields. The plants in these waters are flattened. Farther away from the camera, the brown tops of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.32
A digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting remnant rice fields along a section of the Combahee River. The sun lit fields in the left half of the photograph appear yellowish brown in contrast to the deep blue of the Combahee River meandering by.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.37
A daunting sunset on the Combahee River in Colleton County, SC. – Description from photographer David Soliday. A digital aerial photograph taken along the Combahee River. The river can be seen in the middle of the image and looks yellow under the purple…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.33
A printed document outlining the division of the estate of Mrs. Sarah B. Preston of Abingdon, Virginia. The document consists of printed black ink on a single sheet of off-white paper, bi-folded to make four pages. The main page is titled [Schedule of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.158.13
A school copy book printed by Philip Price in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and used by Hannah Amelia Lyons. The book has paper covers bound on the proper left side. A length of knotted pink string extends from the top edge of the binding, serving as a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.124.2
A book from the Jones-Hall-Sims House. The Cover text: "School Reading By Grade, Baldwin's Reader Third Year, American Book Company"; decorative illustration on back cover. First six pages missing. "James" written in pencil in front cover. Doodling inside…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.25.6
Unbound school report and affidavits cover the period June 1867 and April–May 1868. The school report is dated June 1867 and the affidavits, April–May 1868.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1903, File 3.80.4
Unbound school reports, April 1867–March 1869, are arranged by type of report and thereunder chronologically. The records include teachers' reports (Apr. 1867–Mar. 1869), reports of the subassistant commissioner (Apr. 1867–Feb. 1869), reports received from…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.2.17
