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mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA side table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The medium brown finished wooden table is narrow with a small, square top, turned legs, and a square-shaped shelf at the bottom connected to all four legs. The tabletop is plain. There is a small area of ring…
ca. 1924
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA dark wooden rectangular side table with a mirrored top from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The tabletop features a carved, rectangular wooden frame with a large, beveled mirror at the center. The frame is narrow and has a thin lip around the edges. The…
1970s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA side table consisting of a metal base (.1a) and a detachable glass top (.1b). The table has four (4) legs with a bi-color finish, black in the middle of each leg, and brass at the top and bottom. The four legs connect into a square by four (4) stretchers…
1970s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA side table consisting of a metal base (.1a) and a detachable glass top (.1b). The table has four (4) legs with a bi-color finish, black in the middle of each leg, and brass at the top and bottom. The four legs connect into a square by four (4) stretchers…
2010-09-27
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal Carousel 22, slide 63.
2002-2008
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA short-sleeve blue Indianapolis Colts polo shirt worn by Tony Dungy. The collared shirt has three (3) plastic blue buttons on the proper right side of the V-neckline. On the proper left side of the shirt there is the Indianapolis Colts horseshoe logo in…
Loading image…1870–1953
Sidney Allen "Sid" Dearing (March 8, 1870 – October 6, 1953) was an American businessperson. He owned the Creole Cafe in Oakland, California. Dearing was Black Seminole, and in the 1920s he and his family were the subject of racial discrimination and hate…
Loading image…1871–1948
Sidney Dillon Redmond (October 11, 1871 – February 11, 1948) was an American civic leader, physician, lawyer, and politician from Jackson, Mississippi. He was an important African American community leader and headed the Mississippi Republican Party as…
1978
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "Sierra Leonian family named Claxon; an old Creole name but they consider themselves Temne. Taken at P.C. Agriculture Training Sept. 23-29, 1978. The date on the slide is JAN 79.".
1986-1990
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph taken candidly outdoors of a veiled bride standing behind three flower girls, a young boy, and two other members of the wedding party.
1932-1940
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA sign advertising the segregated Club Plantation in Saint Louis, Missouri. The sign is printed on light yellow poster board and features black text and black-and-red graphics. Just above the center of the sign is a caricatured cartoon depiction of a man's…
after 1984
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGHistoric neon sign from Minton's Playhouse. The sign has multicolored neon letters [MINTON'S PLAYHOUSE] secured to a blue metal background. The sign features five neon musical notes: one on either end of the moniker and three in the center.
20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA wooden sign from Shearer Cottage on Martha's Vineyard. White-painted wood letters are glued onto a wood board. The top row of letters spells "SHEARER" and the bottom row of letters spells "COTTAGE". Some of the letters have mirror tiles glued all along…
circa 1979
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Sign in front of Dutch Reformed Church, Bronkhorstspruit (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSign in the shape of the letter "B" used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans, Louisiana. The sign is orange with patterned with a yellow, waved lines and a repeating yellow sunburst design. It is bordered with gold braided tassels and yellow,…
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSign in the shape of the letter "L" used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans, Louisiana. The sign is orange with patterned with a yellow, waved lines and a repeating yellow sunburst design. It is bordered with gold braided tassels and yellow,…
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSign in the shape of the letter "M" used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans, Louisiana. The sign is orange with patterned with a yellow, waved lines and a repeating yellow sunburst design. It is bordered with gold braided tassels and yellow,…
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSign in the shape of the letter "O" used in a Black Men of Labor parade in New Orleans, Louisiana. The sign is orange with patterned with a yellow, waved lines and a repeating yellow sunburst design. It is bordered with gold braided tassels and yellow,…
2000-02-04
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSign on building marks the home of Heinrich Barth, 1853, Timbuktu. Original Carousel number, 14, slide number, 9.
August 12, 2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA handmade protest sign by Gillet Rosenblith used during the Charlottesville, Virginia counter-protest to the Unite the Right rally on August 12, 2017. The sign is constructed from blue poster board with the slogans "Nazis - Go Home!!" on the front, and…
2002
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA four page color brochure featuring Dr. Bertha Maxwell Roddey and her husband, Theodore on the cover. They were the subjects of the article: "This Legacy is Yours" which focused on The Roddey Foundation's grand opening of the Bertha Maxwell Roddey Center…
1860s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn albumen print, carte-de-visite studio portrait of early Black photographer James Presley Ball. The photograph depicts Ball in his own studio, standing on diamond-patterned carpet, his proper right hand resting atop an ornately carved pedestal. He is…
1920s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA gold signet ring with a blank face and an eagle on each shoulder. The eagles are clutching olive branches and arrows. They have their wings outstretched, and they have their heads looking to the left. Above each eagle is a horizontal row of three stars…
1981; printed 2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis color photograph shows a young man in a red jacket and pants, standing in front of a brick wall with signs on it in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York in 1981. Two of the green signs are titled: [Reaganism: Black Genocide]. They advertise…
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