This stereograph card depicts a group of women, children and a man sitting and standing in and in font of a doorway to a clapboard building. The adults all hold children on their laps or in in their arms. Consisting of two similar images side by side, the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.248.4.4
Thomas A. Sykes (born c. 1835) was an American politician and tax official. An African-American, he was born into slavery. After the Civil War, he served as a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for four one-year terms…
Born in Saint-Domingue to an enslaved mother, Dumas rose to the rank of general in revolutionary France and was the father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas.
Thomas Bayne (c. 1824 – July 5, 1888) (also known as "Sam Nixon") was an African American Republican politician. Born a slave, he became a dental assistant and Underground Railroad conductor in Norfolk, Virginia, before escaping to New Bedford,…
Thomas Dalton (1794–1883) was a free African American raised in Massachusetts who was dedicated to improving the lives of people of color. He was active with his wife Lucy Lew Dalton, Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the founding or ongoing activities of…
Thomas George Downing (January 27, 1791 – 1866) was an American restaurateur and abolitionist active in New York City during the Victorian era. He was nicknamed the "New York Oyster King". He was one of the wealthiest people in New York City at the time of…
Thomas Elkins (1818 - 1819 February - August 10, 1900) was an African-American dentist, abolitionist, surgeon, pharmacist, and inventor. He lived in Albany, New York, for most of his life, but travelled during his service as the medical examiner of the…
Thomas Fuller (1710 – December 1790), also known as "Negro Demus" and the "Virginia Calculator", was an enslaved African renowned for his mathematical abilities.
Thomas Gilman (1830–1911), nicknamed Uncle Tom Gilman, was an American freedman, miner, farmer, and businessperson. He was an enslaved African American who self–purchased his freedom from mining during the mid-19th century, and notably contributed to…
Rev. Thomas H. Jones (born 1806) was born a slave Wilmington, North Carolina and was a prominent African-American abolitionist in antebellum America. Jones escaped slavery, traveled to Canada and subsequently relocated to Worcester, Massachusetts.…
Thomas James (1804–1891) had been a slave who became an African Methodist Episcopal Zion minister, abolitionist, administrator and author. He was active in New York and Massachusetts with abolitionists, and served with the American Missionary Association…
Thomas Jeremiah (died 18 August 1775) was a free Negro harbor pilot, firefighter, fisherman and merchant from Charles Town, South Carolina, in British North America. A prominent resident of the city, he was executed for attempting to foment a slave revolt…
A New York tailor and abolitionist, Jennings received a patent in 1821 for an early dry-cleaning process and used his earnings to support the Black community and abolition.
Rev. Thomas Marcus Decatur Ward (September 28, 1823 – June 1894) was an American preacher, missionary, bishop, and abolitionist who aided African-Americans escaping slavery. Ward is considered to have been a central leader of African American religious…
Reverend Dr. Thomas Nelson Baker, Sr. was a minister, author and philosopher. Born into slavery, Baker was the first African-American to receive a PhD in philosophy in the United States.
Thomas Smallwood (1801–1883) was a freedman, "a daring activist and searing writer" who worked alongside fellow abolitionist Charles Turner Torrey on the Underground Railroad. The two men created what some historians believe was the first branch of the…
Thomas Warren Long (January 10, 1839 – October 25, 1917) was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and politician in Florida. He fought against the Confederacy during the American Civil War and later served in the state legislature. Born into slavery on…
Thornton Blackburn (c. 1812–1890) was a self-emancipated formerly enslaved man whose case established the principle that Canada would not return slaves to their masters in the United States and thus established Canada as a safe terminus for the Underground…
And iron tie rod. The tie rod is an elongated bar with two bent, perpendicular spikes at each end, projecting in the same direction. The shaft of the tie rod is roughly rounded. Near one of the spikes is white painted text that reads [R409].
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.34
A timber carrier. The carrier is constructed from iron lifting tongs, or log tongs, with a wooden handle. The tongs are rounded and have two (2) sharp, gripping teeth. The shanks are attached to a center ring with two large bolts. The ring is wrapped…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.15
The single volume "Time Book (112)," Swayne School Construction (1868), is arranged chronologically. A table of wages is pasted on the inside of front cover. An account book of work done provides names of workmen, number of days employed, pay per diem, and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.18.9
A pair of large, iron tin shears. The shears are plain and have a rough surface. The shears have elongated square straight shanks and square straight handle grips that are bent sharply downwards. The shanks are crossed at the base with a large screw. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.24.9
In black thermoplastic case with brass hinges and red velvet liner; Preserver and mat: brass decorated with eagle, 2 American flags, cannon, and E Pluribus Unum set in a red velvet liner; tintype with cover glass of an African American Union soldier with a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.51.12
