A rusted sickle with a carved wooden handle. The sickle has a short, wooden handle with a curved hand grip and a slightly bulbous base. The tang is exposed on both sides of the handle and is riveted in place with two (2) rivets and two (2) washers. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.33
A rusted sickle with a carved wooden handle. The sickle has a short, wooden handle with a carved handle. The tang is longer than the handle and protrudes from the base. It is curved slightly upwards. The dark brown handle is heavily split from the bottom…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.37
Side chair created by Thomas Day. The chair has mahogany legs and back with scroll and floral detailing. There is an engraved floral motif on the center top rail. The seat is upholstered and filled with burlap. The fabric has cream, green, and red striped…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.2
Silas Chandler (1838 – September 1919) was an enslaved African American who accompanied his enslavers, Andrew and Benjamin Chandler, referred to as a "manservant" in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He was also a carpenter and he helped…
Silas Royal (1740s–1826), originally known as Silas Varnum and sometimes written as Ryal Varnum, was an enslaved person and black patriot in the Revolutionary War. Though bought as an infant slave for the Varnum family, he was eventually set free and…
Harriet Tubman escaped the bonds of slavery as a young woman in the early 1800s. She returned to the South many times as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad to lead other African Americans to freedom. During the Civil War, Tubman served as a spy,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.50.39
Cross with a disk at center (pin on reverse). Front: "E. A.HILL. 54.Ms.Vol/ Co. A" incised around top of disk above Fort Sumter flying an American flag with water in the foreground; "James Isd", “Olustee", "Darien.", "Wagner" are engraved on arms of cross…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.51.7
A Maltese cross with a disk at center showing Fort Sumter flying an American flag overhead in raised relief with water in the foreground. The owner’s name [Washnt Perkins 54 Ms. Vol / Co. A] is centered over the fort etched in a half-circle. Each of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.104.12
A silver label for a rum decanter by Thomas Wallis II, London. The label is a single piece of flat, slightly curved metal suspended on a chain. The label is roughly rectangular shaped with rounded corners. The top edge rises in a single bump in the center.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.32.3
Simeon W. Beard was an American minister, teacher, and politician who worked in Charleston, South Carolina and then in Augusta, Georgia. He served in the Union Army. He was a delegate to Georgia's constitutional convention in 1867 and 1868. African…
Simon Douglas (c. 1843 – 8 March 1950) was a former slave who lived to become the last American Civil War soldier in the state of New Jersey. Douglas was born around 1843, as a slave on a plantation in Fairfield County, South Carolina.
Simpson Charles Younger (May 17, 1850 – May 14, 1943) was a baseball player, a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Civil Rights campaigner, and poet. An African American, he was one of the youngest soldiers to serve in the Union Army…
A wooden skewed thumb molder. There is evidence of older dents and abrasions, but the whole plane has a dark stain obscuring past damage. There are newer scratches/abrasions on the proper left side of the stock. In relief on the toe, oriented vertically,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.8.20
A pair of long handled lifting/skidding tongs. The tongs are rounded at the bottom and have two (2) sharp, curved, gripping teeth. The tongs are connected by a center rivet. At the top of the shanks are two (2) round, metal handles. Incised on the shaft…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.24.15
Iron lifting/skidding tongs. The tongs are rounded and have two (2) sharp, gripping teeth. The shanks have been connected at the base by a center rivet. At the top of the shanks of the tongs are two (2) holes threaded through with thick, oval shaped, metal…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.24.7
Printed floral skirt worn by an enslaved ancestor of Janett Sharee Galloway. The skirt is made from cotton with a small-scale print in faded brown of a single flower surrounded by a stippled frame. Two bias brown tapes are machine stitched along the bottom…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.52
A cut stone slab architectural element, possibly used as a step. The stone slab is roughly rectangular in shape with a flat surface on one side and sloped on the other side. One corner is missing from the thinner side of the slab. The stone is light to…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.21.1
A terracotta slab architectural element. The slab is roughly rectangular shaped and is composed of three layers: a black painted, fired, red clay slab face; an aggregate layer of crushed bricks and cement; and a layer of bricks covered with thick…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.21.2
A dome top steamer trunk or chest from the Jones-Hall-Sims House. The chest is made from wooden planks, embellished with thin vertical wooden slats nailed to the exterior. The slats are alternating reddish and brownish stained wood. There are wooden bands…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.25.2ab
