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Historical photographs & documents

Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #11

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #11”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref953
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Historical photographs & documents

Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #12

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #12”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref954
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Historical photographs & documents

Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #13

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #13”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref955
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Historical photographs & documents

Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #14

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #14”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref956
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Historical photographs & documents

Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #15

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #15”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref957
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Historical photographs & documents

Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #2

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #2”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref944
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Historical photographs & documents

Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #3

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #3”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref945
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Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #4

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #4”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref946
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Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #5

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #5”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref947
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Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #6

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #6”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref948
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Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #7

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #7”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref949
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Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #8

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #8”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref950
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Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #9

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Cataloged as “Pia Jordan Family Home Movie #9”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref951
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Archival documents & files

Pia Jordan Family Home Movies — Great Migration Home Movie Study Collection

1980 - 2000

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The Pia Jordan Family Home Movies feature oral history with unidentified family elders, documentation of elementary school events, holidays, and broadcast news reports from Baltimore, MD.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref665
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Musical Instruments

Piano bench from Pilgrim Baptist Church used by Thomas Dorsey

1930s

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Wood and vinyl piano bench with the seat as a lid for a storage compartment contained within the bench. Bench seat is covered in a bright orange vinyl material. The bench has four (4) legs that taper down and are capped with metal. The storage compartment…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.134.2
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Musical Instruments

Piano from Pilgrim Baptist Church used by Thomas Dorsey

1930s

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This piano is paneled with wood and structured around a cast iron frame. When the piano's fallboard is open, the piano 'name' or maker is seen in the center of the fallboard's underside in stylized gold lettering which reads [Conover]. The piano has all 88…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.134.1a-g
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[Picking cotton along shores of Lake Victoria], Tanzania

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Cataloged as “[Picking cotton along shores of Lake Victoria], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0341
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[Picking cotton in June near Lake Victoria], Tanzania

1966-06

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Cataloged as “[Picking cotton in June near Lake Victoria], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0398
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Picking cotton on a cooperative farm in Lake Victoria area, Tanzania

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Cataloged as “Picking cotton on a cooperative farm in Lake Victoria area, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0220
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[Picking cotton on a cooperative farm near Lake Victoria], Tanzania

1966-06

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Cataloged as “[Picking cotton on a cooperative farm near Lake Victoria], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0620
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Bibles

Pictoral Family Bible

1890

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A large Bible with color illustrations from the Jones-Hall-Sims House. As indicated by its title, was intended for use by the entire family.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.25.7
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Picture postcard of the Broadway Temple A. M. E. Zion Church

1915-1920

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A picture postcard of the front view of Broadway Temple A. M. E. Zion Church in Louisville, KY. At top right, an oval shaped picture of Pastor W. J. Walls, B.D with text identifying him at the bottom. The postcard has text at the bottom center identifying…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.75
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Picture postcard to Doc Anderson Townsend

July 7, 1916

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A picture postcard sent to Prof. D. A. Townsend from Ella McElroy. On the front, three images from the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School in Nashville, Tennessee. The top left photo is captioned “PRESIDENT’S OFFICE’ with a man behind…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.76
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Picture postcard to Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend

1914; sent September 1917

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A picture postcard addressed to Dr. Arthur M. Townsend. On the front, an image of the Old Bay House in West Springfield, MA with the printed history at the bottom center. The back of the postcard has a vertical line in the center and in the upper left…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.77
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