Tan straw hat with tulle streamer and artificial flower decorations designed by Mae Reeves. The hat has a high rounded crown and a wide circular brim that is turned up all around. A length of cream tulle is wrapped around the crown as a hat band and tied…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.48.25
A first edition, hardcover copy of Stride Toward Freedom by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with black cloth spine tape and deckle page edges on the elongated end. The background of the front of the dust jacket is divided…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.52.21
String of large, squarish amber beads with four round, silver metal beads. The beads are arranged in series of five large amber beads with a metal bead in between. On one side, the two series of five large amber beads are separated by two smaller, oval…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.182.71
String of brown, blue, and white disc-shaped beads. The brown beads are faded. The some of the blue beads have red and dark blue stripes. The white beads have dark blue stripes.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.182.60
A string of cowrie shells. There are sixty (60) tan and yellow colored cowrie shells on a string composed of multiple natural-colored strands twisted together. The shells do not create a distinct pattern and they are oriented on the string in varying…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.182.59
Beads of variety of sizes and shapes with varying patterns and colors. No two beads on this string are the same. The majority of the beads have a yellow background with varying green, red, blue and white patterns. Some beads are disk-shaped while others…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.182.62
Strand of large, disc-shaped beads made of red coral. The beads are uniform in size and shape except for two oblong-shapped beads. Many of the beads are chipped or faded from wear.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.182.73
A narrow metal box with a handle on short side. The right side of the box has a small blue seal with the image of a lighthouse. Lettering surrounds the logo: [UNION MUTU / AL LIFE INSURA / NCE COMPANY / FOUNDED 1848]. The front of the box has a three dial…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.123.7
Strongbox owned by Louise Ayers Church, mother of Mary Church Terrell. The black metal box (a) has gold-colored detailing. Gold border detailing is around the lid and the box lock. There is additional red detailing on the top of the lid. The side of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2017.13.1.36ab
Sufi Abdul Hamid (born Eugene Brown) (January 6, 1903 in Lowell, Massachusetts – July 30, 1938) was an African-American religious and labor leader and was among the first African-American converts to Islam. An admirer of Mufti Amin al-Husseini, he is best…
A silver plated sugar bowl and lid, used at Wormley's Hotel in Washington, DC. The bowl is round, with a slightly flared rim. It has two (2) curved handles attached on opposite sides near the bowl rim and an attached, rounded platform base with rim. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.104.2ab
A sugar bowl from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The sugar bowl is from a Czechoslovakian cream and sugar set. It is entirely constructed from off-white ceramic. The body of the vessel is rounded and squat. Its exterior surface is molded to resemble an acorn…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.62
Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. ( SHUUG; born April 19, 1965) is an American former record executive who is the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records. Knight was a central figure in gangsta rap's commercial success in the 1990s.
Woman’s suit consisting of jacket (.1) and skirt (.2) made by Temple #2 in Chicago. Both pieces are made of a peach colored fabric. The fabric is woven in a wavy pattern and the front of the jacket has two (2) pockets. At the nape of the neck is a silver…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.60.2.1-.2
A document summarizing the procedure and sale of four enslaved persons, identified as [Banks, aged thirty years, Kitty aged nineteen and her child Lizzy aged three years, Octavo aged ten years], at auction from the estate of James Holly to his son, John D.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.26.9
Andrew "Sunbeam" Mitchell (November 6, 1906 – August 22, 1989) was an American Memphis-based businessman. He operated the Mitchell Hotel which lodged well-known musicians, and soon he began operating nightclubs on the Chitlin' Circuit such as the Club…
A Sunbeam needle threader found in drawer B of the Singer cabinet table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The threader has a short piece of fine wire bent into a diamond shaped loop mounted to one end of a tear shaped piece of metal plate that functions as…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.18.2.3
