Black and white image of a man and two (2) children gathering wood. The three (3) are in a scrap wood pile with varying types of wood and sizes. In the left lower portion of the image is a young girl holding wood scraps in her arms. She is seen looking to…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.14
Black and white photograph taken from inside Michaux's Bookstore through the front window during Malcolm X's appearance there. You can see through the window that there is a long line of people, mainly African American men, waiting to get inside to see…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.162.3
Black and white image of two (2) women sitting and reading a booklet. The women are seated in front of tiled, white wainscoting, with the top row existing of narrow dark rectangular tile. Resting above the tile, in the upper left corner is a sign with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.24
Black and white image of two (2) women sitting and reading a booklet. The women are seated in front of tiled, white wainscoting, with the top row existing of narrow dark rectangular tile. Resting above the tile, in the upper left corner is a sign with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.35
Black and white image of Martha Sapp giving birth. On the right hand of the image are a pair of bare legs splayed out, knees bent. Sapp wears white socks. On the bed in front of Sapp is a baby crying, covered in afterbirth. The umbilical cord of the baby…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.7
A black-and-white photograph of Jimmy Abu, member of the African Jazz-Art Society and Studio (AJASS), in the Harlem apartment of Elombe Brath and Kwame Brathwaite. The photograph depicts Abu from the knees up, standing in three-quarters pose with his body…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.26.7
A black-and-white photograph of Jimmy Abu at Riis beach. The photograph depicts Abu at the front center of the foreground squatting on the crowded beach of Jacob Riis Park, with his back to the viewer. His elbows are resting on the top of his thighs, his…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.26.6
Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp. Sapp stands with her proper right knee resting on a chair seat. Coley stands, out of focus on the right side of the image, and irons. The women stand near a whitewashed, cement block wall on which hang…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.27
Black and white image of two (2) women sitting on a couch with three (3) children. The woman on the left, Mary Francis Hill Coley, wears a pin striped dress. She holds a young girl, smiling, in her lap. The young girl wears a lightly colored dress and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.1
Black and white image of Martha Sapp walking near the end of a bed, while in the background, Mary Coley bends down away from the camera. Sapp, standing, wears a terry cloth robe and a head scarf. She is seen in profile with her proper left hand grasping…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.16
Black and white photograph of Malcolm X standing amongst stacks of books inside Michaux's Bookstore looking down and reading a book. The image was captured in 1962 but was printed from the original negative under the supervision of the Yoors Family…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.162.2
A framed black-and-white gelatin silver photograph titled “Untitled (Man Reading Newspaper)” by Carrie Mae Weems. The photograph captures a scene in a kitchen. At the center is a kitchen table with a man seated at the end of it, wearing a black shirt as he…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.39.47ab
Black and white image of a crowd of seated people, highlighting the woman in the foreground, left of center, wiping her forehead. The featured woman wears a light-colored dress with a brooch pinned to her proper left side of her bust. Her eyes are closed…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.33
Black and white image of a woman standing near a window. Woman wears a pin-striped dress with short sleeves. She also wears a dark colored had perched on the back of her head. The woman stands in three-quarter view with her proper right side facing the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.42
Black and white image of porch fronts on a street with Mary Coley and Martha Sapp standing on a porch in the mid-ground. The image is captured from the porch of a house next to the one the women are visiting. A column from the porch can be seen on the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.25
Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp walking adjacent to the camera down a dirt street lined with houses. The woman on the left, Mary Coley, wears a light-colored dress and jacket with dark shoes and hat. She carries a bag, obscured by her…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.23
Black and white image of two (2) women walking adjacent to the camera down a dirt street lined with houses. The woman on the left, in the left third of the image, wears a light-colored dress and jacket with dark shoes and hat. She carries a bag, obscured…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.44
Black and white image of several rows of women seated, all wearing midwife uniforms. In the foreground are two (2) women talking with one another. Both are wearing white aprons and white nurses' caps. The woman on the left holds a black purse in her lap…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.28
This oil painting depicts a woman in a bonnet with a pair of white ducks with black wings and beaks. She stands in profile to the viewer, facing the ducks. She wears a large blue bonnet, white shirt, and white apron over a dark skirt. She holds out a green…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.68.2
A black and white image of four (4) women and a baby seated on a bench. The woman on the far left, in the foreground wears a diamond patterned dress with a head scarf and glasses. The second to the left woman wears a light-colored shirt and checkered…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.3
A color photograph of Grandassa models and founding AJASS members Kletus Smith, Frank Adu, Bob Gumbs, Elombe Brath and Ernest Baxter captured at the Naturally '68 photo shoot at the Apollo Theater. The ten Grandassa models are standing in the back row with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.26.3
Black and white image of a woman, Mary Francis Hill Coley, bathing a baby. Coley, seated center, holds a small baby in her lap with her left hand while her right hand sponges the baby clean. In her lap is towel. She wears a dark colored dress with a white,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.5
A black-and-white photograph, Untitled (Nomsa Brath modeling Congolese fabrics, Stern’s department store, New York), by Kwame Brathwaite. The photograph depicts Brath walking the runway. The Grandassa model is wearing dark, capri pants, black kitten heel…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.26.8
A black-and-white photograph, Untitled (Original AJASS Members l to r: Robert Gumbs, Frank Adu, Elombe Brath (seated), Kwame Brathwaite, Ernest Baxter & Chris Hall), by Kwame Brathwaite. The men are standing in a semicircle around Brath, who is seated at a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.26.11
