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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Eva Northrup on the plantation where Harriet Tubman was enslaved

1940s - 1950s

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A black-and-white photograph of Eva Stewart Northrup, great niece of Harriet Tubman, at the plantation in Cambridge, Maryland where Tubman was enslaved. Northrup is pictured in a hat and wide-striped coat over a dark dress, her proper right hand on a the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.50.14.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Eva Stewart Northrup in front of Harriet Tubman's house

mid 20th century

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A gelatin silver print of the front of Harriet Tubman's house. Visible are the front yard, doorway, and several windows. Standing on the porch is Tubman's great-niece Eva Stewart Northrup. She wears an overcoat and carries a purse in her left hand.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.50.14.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of FAME Church Members Standing on the Front Steps

1888-1903; printed later

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Black and white image of a copy of an image of people standing outside the steps of a church. The church exterior is wood paneling and features two (2) windows with gothic arches in the front. Between the two (2) windows, centered, is the doorway, also…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.227.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Fania Davis and Kailyn Bailey

November 16, 2023

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A digital image of social justice activist and civil rights attorney Fania Davis and scholar activist Kailyn Bailey at the office of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, a non-profit organization Davis helped establish. Bailey interviewed Davis for the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.10.6
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Fania Davis at the office of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

November 16, 2023

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A digital image of social justice activist and civil rights attorney Fania Davis at the office of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, a non-profit organization she helped establish. The image captures Davis sitting in a crème-colored armchair. She wears…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.10.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Fania Davis at the office of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

November 16, 2023

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A digital image of social justice activist and civil rights attorney Fania Davis at the office of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, a non-profit organization she helped establish. The image captures Davis sitting in a crème-colored armchair. She wears…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.10.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Fania Davis at the office of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

November 16, 2023

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A digital image of social justice activist and civil rights attorney Fania Davis at the office of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, a non-profit organization she helped establish. The image captures Davis sitting in a crème-colored armchair. She wears…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.10.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Fania Davis with NMAAHC scholar activists

November 16, 2023

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A digital image of social justice activist and civil rights attorney Fania Davis with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s scholar activists, Natalie Riddick and Kailyn Bailey, at the office of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.10.7
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Fania Davis with NMAAHC staff and scholar activists

November 16, 2023

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A digital image of social justice activist and civil rights attorney Fania Davis with National Museum of African American History and Culture’s oral historian, Kelly Elaine Navies, along with two scholar activists, Natalie Riddick and Kailyn Bailey, at the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.10.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of First AME Church choir on the steps of the church

1940s; later print

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Black and white photograph of a church choir standing in rows on the front steps of a church. The church façade features three (3) doors, the left two (2) are open with people standing in the doorways. Above the doors are gothic style tympanums filled with…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.227.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of First AME Church cornerstone laying ceremony

1968

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Black and white photograph of a crowd of people at the laying of the cornerstone at a building site. The cornerstone is in the lower right corner with engraved text [FIRST AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH / ORGANIZED 1872 / THE REVEREND DR. H. HARTFORD…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.227.6
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of First AME Church with bus and sedan

1960s

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Black and white photograph of a church as seen from the street. The church has a white exterior with gothic style windows of stained glass. On the left half of the image is a multi-walled transept extending from the building. Above this in the background…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.227.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of five men wearing baseball uniforms

ca. 1930

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A black-and-white photograph of five unidentified men in "Trojans" baseball uniforms standing on a field. In the background, to the left, is a large building. In the background, to the right, are trees, houses, and a street with parked cars. The back of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.42.11
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Flavor Flav wearing Italia hat, NYC, 1992

1992

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A color photograph of Flavor Flav. He is wearing a white jacket over a black shirt. He is wearing sunglasses with lights reflected in them and has "grillz" on his teeth. He is wearing a white baseball cap with a red brim. It is sideways and reads [ITALIA]…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.86.1-.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Flavor Flav with his mom and children at Flavor Flav's Barber Shop

May 20, 1992; printed 2003

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A black-and-white photograph of Flavor Flav, his mom, and his children -- Shanique, William Jr., and Karen -- at Flavor Flav's Barber Shop, Freeport, L.I., taken May 20, 1992. The image shows Flavor Flav with his arm around his mother and his three…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.279
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of flight attendant Casey Grant working mid-flight on a 757

1985-1987

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A color print photograph of Delta Air Lines flight attendant, Casey Grant, working in the galley aboard a Boeing 757 passenger jet. Wearing her Delta Air Lines uniform, Grant is pictured in the center of the photograph preparing food. Grant’s short brown…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.50.24.6
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gelatin silver prints

Photograph of Florence Stevens Bryant with daughter Addie Bryant

1918

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Black and white photograph of Florence Stevens Bryant and her first child, Addie, outside their home.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.66.132
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Florie and Guy at Coney Island

1941

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A black-and-white photograph of a woman and a man lying on towels on the beach. Both are lying propped on elbows facing the camera. Edges of the photograph are scalloped. On back, stamped upside down in black ink, is [C 1]. On back at center right, written…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.72.2.3.1
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of four men

after 1910

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A black-and-white photograph of four men in coats and ties standing outside of a building in front of a door with steps. Two of the men in the background stand on the stamps while two men stand side-by-side at the level floor. A window is to the right of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.46
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of four men

after 1910

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A black-and-white photograph of four men wearing suits and ties and standing side-by-side outside. They wear a badge or ribbon on their left lapels. Three of the men wear the same close-fitting cap. In the background are various trees. On back on the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.58
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Archival Collections

Photograph of four Tuskegee Airmen writing letters home

1942-1945

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A black-and-white photograph of the inside of a military bunkhouse with four men on beds writing letters. There are five beds pictured left to right with a trunk at the foot of all but the fourth bed and additional suitcases atop the trunks on the second…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog TA2014.306.3.1.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Photograph of Foxy Brown and Lil Kim, NYC

1996

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A color photograph of Foxy Brown and Lil Kim, NYC, 1996. Brown, left, stands with her arm around Kim, at right. Brown wears a black top with blue jeans; Kim wears a dark fur coat and sunglasses. Both women are smiling at the camera. Behind them is a wall…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.132.426
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photographs

Photograph of Frances Albrier in hat and pearls

1928

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A black-and-white photograph of Frances Albrier wearing a dark-colored sun hat, a pearl necklace, and a dress with a polka dot and flower pattern.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.11
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