A black and white photograph of a line of unidentified people outside the Apollo Theater by Arthur Leipzig. The line extends from the box office on the right side of the image down the sidewalk. The men and women in the queue are facing various directions.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.67.3
Black and white image of two (2) women, one seated on a bed and the other standing and bent over the torso of the seated woman. The standing woman, Mary Francis Hill Coley, on the left side of the image, wears a light-colored dress with white cuffs on her…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.15
Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp arranging items on a bed. On the left side of the image Sapp, seen in profile, wearing a plaid patterned dress. She is seen smiling at the other woman as her proper right side faces the camera. Her hands…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.26
Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp. Coley is assisting in the birthing of Sapp. Coley on the left, stands over Sapp who is lying in bed. Coley wears a nurses' cap, light-colored smock and a towel over her proper left shoulder. She pulls up…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.9
Black and white image of a man running to a truck. The truck, seen left of center in the yard of a house, is dark colored and is missing a hub cap on the back tire. The front of the truck is dented falling apart. On the either side of the bed of the truck…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.12
Black and white image of a woman scrubbing her hands. All that is seen of the woman is her torso, arms, and hands. Her hands are in the lower half of the image and in her proper right hand is a small bush. The woman uses the brush to scrub the ring finger…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.18
Black and white image of Mary Coley, Martha Sapp, and a small baby. In the lower right corner Martha Sapp is laying in bed. She looks away from the camera at Mary Coley seated to her right. Coley is on the left side of the image, looks at the woman in bed…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.6
A color photograph portrait of Sikolo Brathwaite captured at the African Jazz-Arts Society and Studios (AJASS) studio in Harlem. The Grandassa model is depicted in bust pose from the shoulders up against an olive green background. She is turned in a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.26.2
A color photograph portrait of Sikolo Brathwaite wearing a beaded headpiece designed by Carolee Prince. The Grandassa model is depicted from the shoulders up, against an orange background. She is shown in profile, facing the left edge of the image, with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.26.5
Black and white image of a family in the kitchen. Mary Francis Hill Coley stands in the center, scraping a plate. She wears a paisley printed blouse and a light-colored apron. Behind Coley an older woman stands, wearing a dark shirt with a light-colored…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.2
Black and white image of women's hands. On the left side of the image is one pair of hands with the person holding a packet of cotton swabs, center, in their proper left hand. The person's proper left hand is rests on the finial of a chair back. In the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.10
Black and white photograph of two unidentified trombone players inside the United House of Prayer for all People of the Church of the Apostolic Faith. The image was captured in 1963 but was printed from the original negative under the supervision of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.162.4
Black and white image of two (2) women, Mary Francis Hill Coley and Martha Butler Sapp in an interior room of a house. Sapp is visibly pregnant and seated in a chair, wearing a terry cloth robe and a hair wrap. Coley stands in front of Sapp and rests her…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.30
Black and white image of two (2) women, one seated and one standing over the other. Both women stand in a room with a mantel and stove on the left side, a crib behind them up against the far wall as well as a door on the right. The stove can be seen in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.38
This painting depicts two women washing clothes. One woman, wearing a purple dress, red hat, and white apron, stands over a blue tub on a red table. She holds a white object against a slanting blue washboard in the tub. Behind her is a second woman…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.68.4
This oil painting depicts a woman washing clothes on a blue washboard. Shown in profile to the viewer, she wears a yellow dress with a green apron and red hat. She stands in front of a red table with the blue washtub on its surface. The figure holds what…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.68.3
This painting depicts a wedding. A bride and groom stand in the center of the image. The bride is wearing a white gown and veil, with red flowers. The groom is in all black with a white and red flower boutonniere. A third individual stands on the right…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.68.10
Black and white photograph of a group of four (4) African American woman waiting outside a church before a wedding service. The women are standing shoulder to shoulder. The first, second and fourth women are all wearing hats and facing away from the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.162.7
A black-and-white photograph of Grandassa model Nomsa Brath protesting in front of the Wigs Parisian store front on 125th Street in Harlem, New York. Brath's hair is cropped into a short afro style and she is wearing a white, sleeveless, knee length dress,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.26.4
A coiled sweetgrass basket made by Mary A. Jackson. The basket has a wide and shallow circular body with a tall central handle. The handle is composed of three coils that split to form four coils at each end sewn into the top of the basket at four points.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.82.13
This colorful silk screen print depicts a female figure wearing a long red dress in the center of the image. She wears a blue ankh necklace, an Afro hairstyle, and has a spiral symbol on her forehead. She stands with her arms crossed, against a red and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.130.4
A color lithograph print on cream-colored Arches paper titled Upper Room by John Biggers. The print's image is focused on three women with their backs toward the viewer. The woman on the left carries on her back a tall trellis structure, with a plant…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.6.2
