A black and white photograph depicting band leader Edwin Harrell Hampton. He is dressed in a black tie and white uniform suit with decorative braid trimming and epaulettes. The jacket has gold braid around the cuffs and a stripe down the side of the pant…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.47.1
Black and white photograph of St. Augustine High School exterior. The rectangular brick building is photographed at an angle, depicting the front entrance porch. The entrance consists of double doors in a recessed porch. There a large cross over the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.47.7
A digital image of the street signed for Selena’s House of Beauty & School of Hair-Weev Technology, a family business hair salon in Chicago, Illinois. It is held as a TIFF file (.tif). The yellow sign is a blade sign mounted perpendicular to the façade of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.4.6
This black and white photograph depicts a sodalist with a crucifix at St. Augustine High School. The young boy on the extreme left, wearing a checkered sweater over a collared shirt, holds a crucifix in his right hand. Opposite him, a young man, wearing a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.47.4
This black and white photograph of sodalists at St. Augustine High School depicts a room of nine young men seated in two rows, opposite a man in a priest's cassock sitting with his back to the viewer and an open book in front of him. There is a narrow…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.47.5
A black-and-white photograph of ten people (seven men and three women) posed on and around a bench in front of a residential building. The men wear jackets and collared shirts, some with ties, hats, boutonnieres, or sunglasses. The women wear jackets and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.72.2.3.30
A black-and-white gelatin silver photograph of Terri Lyne Carrington holding a large cymbal in a cymbal storage space. An adolescent Terri Lyne Carrington, with her loose dark hair, is captured wearing a turtleneck shirt, knit jacket and trousers, stands…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.101.6
A black-and-white photograph of the body of an unidentified man, the victim of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The man is lying on his back, his eyes closed and his left arm splayed out at his side. The photograph is bent at the bottom right and left corners, and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.95.2
A black and white photograph of two unidentified women. The women are doubles champions and are standing at the center of a court at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club. The woman to the left has her hand resting on the net and is wearing a visor, a cropped top…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.205.19
A black and white photograph of the nine members of the Cotten family taken in 1902. The names of the family members have been written on or above their likenesses. Tom Cotten and Sallie Cotten sit in the middle with their daughters sitting and standing…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.60.1
Black and white photograph of Superintendent of Schools Monsignor Bezou addressing a crowd. This photograph depicts the back of man in a long dark robe standing on a long raised platform speaking to a large crowd standing in an open field. On either side…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.47.8
Black and white photograph of Mr. Leroy Buster Gilliard, Gloria Delores Gilliard, James Leroy Gilliard and Mrs. Dorothy Lee Simmons Gilliard. The photograph depicts Leroy standing on the left and Dorothy standing on the right, the two young children, both…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.24.2
A black-and-white photograph of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921. The image depicts a building and several people in the foreground watching large plumes of dark smoke rising in the background. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.95.1
A black-and-white photograph of several buildings in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the foreground is an open lot with several clusters of people near cars, standing and sitting atop a rail car, and a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.95.10
A black and white photograph of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Depicted are store fronts, telephone wires, and a sign for a dentist's office. People are visible on the sidewalk. There are no marks on the back.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.60.7
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of The Henry LeTang Dancers at Club 845, posing in matching costumes. Each of the six (6) women is wearing a large scalloped headpiece, a crop top with winged shoulders, and a long skirt with an…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.46.25.17
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of The Henry LeTang Dancers at Club 845, posing in matching costumes. Each of the six (6) women is wearing a large scalloped headpiece, a crop top with winged shoulders, and a long skirt with an…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.46.25.194
A black-and-white photograph of the first funeral of the Home Benefit Burial Club of Earle, Arkansas, serviced by Heilig Undertakers. A large group of men, women and children stand outdoors around a casket draped with flowers, in front of a large building…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.27.7
Black and white photograph of the Scott family home in Oberlin, Ohio. The two-storied, two-chimney, brick house has a covered portico that wraps that runs the length of the front of the house. There are two men are standing on the portico. One man, wearing…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.94.13
This gelatiin silver print depicts a black and white image of the family of Martin Luther King, Jr. at his new grave site at Ebenezer Baptist Church. His father, Martin Luther King, Sr. and mother Alberta are standing on the left. Coretta Scott King is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.42.6
A cabinet card photograph depicting a sepia toned image of the Knoxville College glee club. N the photograph four men are standing behind four seated women. The men are wearing dark colored suits and ties. The women are wearing dark colored dresses with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.5.2.18
Black-and-white group photograph of Amiri Baraka, American writer of poetry with members of New York-based spoken word group, The Last Poets. From left to right: David Nelson, Gylan Kain, Amiri Baraka, and Felipe Luciano.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.21.5.2
Black-and-white group photograph of Amiri Baraka, American writer of poetry with members of New York-based spoken word group, The Last Poets. From left to right: David Nelson, Gylan Kain, Amiri Baraka, and Felipe Luciano. The photograph appears to have…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.21.5.3
Black-and-white group photograph of Woodie King, Jr., African-American director and producer and Amiri Baraka, American writer of poetry with members of New York-based spoken word group, The Last Poets. From left to right: Woodie King, Jr., David Nelson,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.21.5.1
