The two volumes of trimonthly reports of operations sent, January 1867–February 1868, 1 (249) and 2 (250), are arranged in chronological order and numbered. Each volume has a name index.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.12.5
This book is a first edition, seventeenth thousand printing copy of “Twelve Years A Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, A Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, and Rescued in 1853, From a Common Plantation Near the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.262
A two-man buck saw with wooden H-shaped frame. At the top of the frame is a tensioning cord looped around the notches in the saw arms and it tied off on the shorter saw arm. The cords are twisted on each side and meet at a loop near the center. Fitted into…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.11
A two-man buck saw with wooden H-shaped frame. At the top of the frame is a tensioning cord looped around the notches in the saw arms. The cords attach to rods on each side of the saw, and the two rods meet at the center and are threaded through an oval…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.12
A two-man felling saw, or crosscut saw, constructed from wood and steel. The two handles are wooden and have rounded shafts. The saw blade is elongated and has wide perforated lance tooth cutters. The blade is attached to the handles at each end with thick…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.16
A U.S. Model 1858 Forage Cap. The crown of the cap is made from dark blue wool broadcloth with two (2) vent holes on each side. The top of the crown has a brass infantry bugle insignia with the letter “K” inside it. The top of the crown also a white and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.99.1
A U.S. Model 1858 Forage Cap. The crown of the cap is made from dark blue wool broadcloth with two (2) vent holes on each side. The top of the crown has two crossed brass canons with the number “4” in front of them. It has a cotton liner with a maker’s…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.99.2
Uchicho was the first King of the Afro-Bolivians. According to tradition, he was captured and brought from Africa to Bolivia as a slave around 1820. He was crowned as Afro-Bolivian king in 1823.
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (c. 1705 – 28 September 1775), also known as James Albert, was an African-born author and soldier. Born in the Kanem–Bornu Empire, he was forced into slavery by a local ruler while visiting the Gold Coast region. Gronniosaw persuaded a…
Ulysses L. Houston was a pastor and state legislator in Georgia. He was elected to the Georgia State Legislature in 1868, and was an influential organizer in the African-American community of Savannah, Georgia, during the mid-19th century. He was born a…
This book is a first edition of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It has paper covers and is printed in black-and-white throughout, with the text of the novel printed in two columns on each page.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.26.6
This stereograph card depicts an elderly couple in front of a wood plank house. A man and woman sit on a bench in front of the house. The man gazes at the woman, while the woman gazes at needlework she holds in her lap. The stereograph card consists of two…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.248.4.31
