An oral history interview and conversation with pediatrician Dr. MaryLouise Patterson, M. D. It consists of three versions of a digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.2.1.1 and 2025.12.2.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file (2025.12.2.1.3,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.2.1
The single volume of drafts of special orders issued, July 1867–December 1868 (26), is arranged by year and thereunder numerically. The volume also contains a register of quartermaster stores received by an officer during the Civil War, which is dated…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1909, File 2.1.1
A draw hoe with a wooden handle. The hoe is mounted perpendicularly to the handle through an eye at the base of the hoe head. The hoe blade has rounded shoulders and a straight cutting edge. The handle is long and rounded. Near the top of the handle, the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.13
A fragment of a draw hoe blade. The blade has a thick, rounded, vertical metal eye that sits at the back of the blade. The blade has rounded sides. The front edge of the blade is missing. The remaining fragment of the front blade edge is heavily rusted,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.80
A fragment of a draw hoe blade from Elizafield Plantation, Glynn County, Georgia. The blade has a thick, rounded, vertical metal eye that sits at the back of the blade. The top edge of the eye slopes slightly diagonally towards the blade. The center of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.79
Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African-American man who, along with his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case…
This is a handstitched long-sleeved dress with a full skirt made from a balanced plain-weave printed cotton. The sleeves are gathered at the back shoulder seam and the shoulder seam is dropped in the back. The bodice is gathered at the front waist and has…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.4
Lupita Nyong'o wears this dress as the character Patsey in the film 12 Years a Slave. The dress is designed and weathered to resemble an early 19th century Regency era gown that survived until the 1840s setting of the film.The dress is a faded blush pink…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.158.1.1
Charity "Duchess" Quamino (c. 1739 – June 29, 1804) was a formerly enslaved woman who became famous in the American colony of Rhode Island for her success as an independent caterer. As a child, she was enslaved in West Africa and taken to Newport, Rhode…
Duke William "D.W." Anderson (April 10, 1812 – February 17, 1873) was an American minister, educator, farmer, and participant in the Underground Railroad. Anderson was the first Black person to serve as a Justice of the Peace in the United States.
A digital aerial photograph of fields along Winyah Bay. Vestigial canals create lines in the greenish-brown grasslands; two of these canals branch into the fields creating tree-like patterns. At the top of the image, Winyah Bay appears sea blue, with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.216.72
Hardback copy of Dutchman & the Slave by LeRoi Jones. Has a clear plastic book sleeve over top, only folded in place, not adhered. Dust-cover front is black with white type reading [DUTCHMAN/& THE SLAVE/LeRoi Jones] along the top, aligned to the left. A…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.53.4
Eliza Isabelle Mitchell Jackson (née Eliza Isabelle Mitchell; December 31, 1848 – October 6, 1942) commonly known as E. Belle Jackson, was an American educator, activist, small business owner, and abolitionist from Kentucky. Jackson was one of the founders…
Edward Franklin Frazier (; September 24, 1894 – May 17, 1962), was an American sociologist and author, publishing as E. Franklin Frazier. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation was published as a book titled The Negro Family in the United States (1939); it analyzed…
