Paperback copy of a book titled The Prince of Colored Preachers. The cover is orange with a rectangular cut out in the center so the photograph of Charles Albert Tindley on the first page is visible. The title is printed in black at the bottom of the front…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.40.19
145 black-and-white and color photographs from Princetta Newman's personal collection, one folder of newspaper clippings and other ephemera, and one class photo album for a Booker T. Washington High School reunion. The collection relates to the Jackson…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.75
A color photograph capturing two lines of teenage girls at the annual parochial procession of San Basilio de Palenque. They are shown from their left profile and from behind. The line in the foreground consists of six girls wearing bright yellow…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.166.21
A seven color lithograph titled “The Red Bed” by Margo Humphrey. The print depicts a cross-sectional view of a house, showing six rooms in a two-story house. Each floor has three rooms. On the first floor, from left to right, the rooms are a kitchen with a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.39.20
This black and white photograph shows Dr. J. DeKoven Killingsworth conducting the Clark College Philharmonic Society from Clark Atlanta University inside the Ebenezer Baptist Church for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday commemoration in 1969. The Clark…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.94.22
A black-and-white photograph of a man dressed is a robe with a rope belt standing with his arms raised above his head. Four women wearing white dresses are standing next to him with their arms outstretched towards him. Flowers line an altar behind him. A…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.141.36
A black-and-white photograph of Rev. Dr. Jesse King speaking into a microphone. He is wearing a black robe with two crosses embroidered on the breast and holding a microphone in his left hand. He is standing behind a podium and leaning forward. A piece of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.141.29
The oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.109.1a, 2011.174.109.1b, 2011.174.109.1c, 2011.174.109.1d, 2011.174.109.1e, 2011.174.109.1f, 2011.174.109.1g, and 2011.174.109.1h. The Reverend Doctor Wyatt Tee Walker reflects on his involvement…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.109.1a-h
Painted cardboard sign with an illustration of a portrait of a woman advertising Mae's hats from Mae's Millinery Shop. The woman is in the lower half on the right side, seen in three-quarter view. She looks to the left and wears a wide brimmed hat, pearls,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.48.44
S & S Hat Company, Inc. Spring 2003 flier from Mae's Millinery Shop. Each page features several color thumbnails of hats on a mannequin head organized into different sets. There are five (5) sheets stapled at the upper left corner, with the first and last…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.38
This color lithograph on a carte-de-visite card depicts an enslaved man being sold at auction by a white man with a hat and beard who is calling out and gesticulating. The slave carries a hat in his right hand and lowers his eyes to the ground.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2008.9.53
A black-and-white photograph of people dressed in robes walking down an isle between church pews. People are standing in front of the pews on either side of the isle and clapping. The point of view of the photograph is above and behind the people in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.144.2
A black-and-white photograph of two men submerging a third person in a baptismal font. Several men and women are standing below the font and dressed in choir robes. They have their hands raised. The wall behind the robed choir says “Jesus Christ Is Lord.”…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.144.6
A fifteen-page pamphlet published by the Daily Worker, “The Scottsboro Boys – Four Freed! Five To Go!” The saddle-stitched pamphlet is printed in black ink on brown paper. The front cover features a design of four male figures (representing the freed young…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.16.9.4
A black-and-white image of an elderly man seated with a blanket draped over his legs. He is looking at his hands, which are holding something in front of him. the photographer's mark is in the lower right corner of the image: [C.M. BATTEY / TUSKEGEE INST.,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.37.4
A feature film with the title The Sky Is Gray. It consists of two reels of 16mm acetate film with color and sound. The film is a coming of age story about a young boy named James (James Bond III) from a sharecropper family in 1940s Louisiana. Through…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.55.98.1ab
A reddish brown stereograph of the Slave Market, Atlanta, GA. The stereograph has two identical photographs next to each other adhered to yellow card stock. The street scene is almost devoid of people, showing a block of commercial buildings on a slightly…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.43.12
Vol. III, No. 5 of the Soul City Sounder. The newsletter features stories about the construction of Soul City and the first sales of properties in the planned community. The newsletter is composed of black text on white paper, folded to produce a front…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.109.17
An English first edition hardcover of The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches by W.E.B. DuBois. The 246-page book has original, plain dark brown-black cloth covers. On the spine in gold is: [THE / SOULS / OF / BLACK / FOLK / DuBOIS / CONSTABLE /…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.16.12
A hardcover copy of The Standard Manual for Baptist Churches by Edward T. Hiscox, D.D. The hardcover clothbound book is black with gold leaf text and design elements. The top half of the front cover features the title of the book printed in gold leaf text…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.52.33
