A color photograph of a group of women. There are two rows. The first row has four women in the middle sitting on chairs and three women on the left kneeling and two on the right kneeling. The second row has 15 women standing. They are in front of a wood…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.25.23
Black-and-white photograph of a group fifteen women sitting outside of a house at night. The women are seated on several benches arranged on the lawn. The light colored brick house is on the left side, with a screen door and a striped awning over a window…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.79.12
A group portrait captured by photographer Charles Franklin Moss. The portrait features 15 women arranged in three rows of five each. Each woman wears a hat, many with elaborate floral decorations, feathers, or ribbons. The first row is seated, with the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.45.26
A black-and-white photograph of approximately eighty women in dresses on and around a church dais. The front row of women sit, but the rest stand. Some women wear fur stoles, and many wear hats. Behind them is a pipe organ with 58 pipes.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.3.6
A black-and-white photograph featuring a group portrait of women posed in front of a church organ. Most of the women wear hats; some also wear white gloves and corsages.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.3.18
A black-and-white photograph of six women wearing dresses and taken outside in front of several trees. Five women stand, from left to right they are Lena Davis, Julia, Georgia Davis, Willa Ann Townsend, and Floy Johnson. They stand around Emma Alice…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.25
A black-and-white photograph depicting a group five people, including James A. Parsons, Jr., standing on a sidewalk. Three women, all in light colored dresses, stand in the middle while the two men, both in dark suits, stand on either side. There are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.246.13
A photographic postcard of an unidentified Guadeloupian woman in traditional Creole dress. She is featured from her torso up, wearing a light, patterned gown with a floral-patterned foulard shawl over her shoulders and tucked into her waist. She has on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.151.9
A photographic postcard of an unidentified Guadeloupean woman in a traditional douillette dress ensemble including a madras head scarf. She is featured standing, facing slightly towards the right of the image, looking towards the camera and smiling…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.150.1
A signed red guest book from the Powell residence in Northern Virginia, owned by General Colin L. Powell and Alma J. Powell. This custom guestbook is constructed of a faux leather material over thick cardboard. It has a wide spine embellished with lines of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.101.1.4
A black-and-white photograph of Rev. Dr. Floyd Flake speaking into a microphone behind a podium on an altar. He is holding the microphone in his left hand and leaning back. His left leg is extended outwards from behind the podium. Three additional men can…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.141.17
A hardcover 100-page book with a leatherized black cover. On the front cover, the title is centered and embossed in gold text: GUEST / REGISTER. There is no print on the spine or verso. The book contains handwritten registers of guests who stayed at the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.209.3
Guestbook from the Powell family vacation cottage. The guestbook has a wood cover, two (2) metal hinges attaching the front cover to the spine, paper sheets on which guests wrote their entries, and a leather cord that holds the paper sheets in place and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.54.1-.3
Guido St. Laurent (c.1930–November 13, 1968) was an American community organizer, who in the 1960s founded and led N.E.G.R.O., an African American community organization based in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston that provided services to the local Black…
Tape #59 Format: VHS. Color, Sound. Long Play VHS Taped TV Broadcast Documentary "Family Across the Sea" Copyright South Carolina Entertainment Television Tape content continues to include segments of "The American Experience: In the White Man's Image",…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2012.79.av_ref324
A black and white digital image of a man farming lettuce on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. The man is walking towards the left side of the image through rows of lettuce. He is wearing a dark colored shirts and jeans. He is holding a plastic crate full…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.49.14
A black and white digital image of a Gullah man fishing at Bullow Landing in Hollywood, South Carolina. He is standing on the shore in the middle of the image. He is wearing a baseball cap, a t-shirt and pants. He is casting a fishing pole with his right…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.49.17
A black and white digital image of a man throwing a circular cast net from a boat on Helena Island in South Carolina. He is standing in the boat with his left side facing the camera. The net is in the air on the left side of the image. He is wearing a dark…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.49.13
A short film with the title Gullah Tales. It consists of a single reel of positive 16mm acetate film with variable-area optical sound. Set at around 1830, the film opens with a narrator describing the importance of the Sea Islands in the coastal regions of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.4.1a
