An iron hoe from Liberia. The hoe has a short, carved, wooden handle. The top portion of the handle is stained black. The bottom of the handle tapers slightly outwards. The iron blade is ellipse shape with the long edges of the blade curved inwards towards…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.41
An iron hoe from Liberia. The hoe has a short, carved, wooden handle. The top portion of the handle is stained black. The knob on the bottom of the handle is wider than the handle grip and are slightly rounded. The iron blade is lanceolate shaped with the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.47
An iron hoe from Liberia. The hoe has a short, carved, wooden handle. The top portion of the handle is stained black. The bottom of the handle tapers slightly outwards. The iron blade is lanceolate shaped with the long edges of the blade curved inwards…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.48
Holland Thompson was a teacher, state legislator, religious leader, and civil rights advocate in Alabama. He represented Montgomery County, Alabama in the Alabama House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era. A former slave, he served as a city…
Hollow-cut silhouette of Ebenezer Dickey. Silhouette faces proper left or the viewer's right and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored paper that has had a negative image traced and then cut away. At bottom center in pencil is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.21.2.2
Hollow-cut silhouette (a) of Jane Miller Dickey with handwritten label (b) reading [Jane Miller Dickey / Julia's sister.]. The label also has a gold and yellow adhesive sticker reading [CURLANDER / fine arts / BALTIMORE]. Silhouette faces proper right or…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.21.2.3ab
Hollow-cut silhouette John Miller Dickey. Silhouette faces proper right or the viewer's left and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored paper that has had a negative image traced and then cut away. Immediately beneath silhouette…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.21.2.4
Hollow-cut silhouette unspecified member of the Dickey family, likely Samuel Dickey. Silhouette faces proper right or the viewer's left and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored paper that has had a negative image traced and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.21.2.5
Hollow-cut silhouette unspecified member of the Dickey family, possibly Mary Jackson Dickey, Margaret Irvine Dickey, or Helen Dickey. Silhouette faces proper left or the viewer's right and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.21.2.6
Hollow-cut silhouette portrait of Rachel Creefield (a) with handwritten label (b). The silhouette faces proper left or the viewer's right and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored paper that has had a negative image traced and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.21.2.1ab
A wooden hollow plane. There is evidence of older dents, abrasions, and scratches. There is one minor checking crack on the stock's side. There is a notable loss from a knot in the wood at the proper left heel of the stock. In relief on toe, oriented…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.8.15
A printed copy of the Christian Bible printed in 1869, containing the family history of Richard Collins. Blank pages between the Old Testament and the New Testament are filled in with the marriage, birth, and death dates of various members of Collins's…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.173
A reprint on brown background of the central scene from the original lithograph "The Shackle Broken - By the Genius of Freedom" by E. Sachse & Co. depicting Robert B. Elliott giving his famous Civil Rights Bill Speech in the House of Representatives on…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.160.152.1
A small metal hook. The hook is rough textured. The hooked tip ends in a sharp point. A white painted rectangle with black, hand painted text on the side near the center reads [R236].
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.23.67
Horace King (sometimes Horace Godwin) (September 8, 1807 – May 28, 1885) was a Black-American architect, engineer, and bridge builder. He is considered the most respected bridge builder of the 19th century Deep South, constructing dozens of bridges in…
Horace Roscoe Cayton Sr. (February 3, 1859 – August 16, 1940) was an American journalist and political activist. The son of a slave and a white plantation owner's daughter, Cayton went to Seattle, Washington, in the early 1890s.
Horatio Theodore Strother (February 1, 1930 – September 14, 1974) was an American historian and educator who wrote an influential 1962 book on the Underground Railroad in Connecticut. His teaching career culminated in a professorship at the University of…
Hosea Easton (1798–1837) was an American Congregationalist and Methodist minister, abolitionist activist, and author. He was one of the leaders of the convention movement in New England.
The single–volume hospital register (183) covers the period February 1866–May 1868. The entries are arranged in chronological order and numbered. The volume also contains a hospital register (February–November 1866); a hospital register of children…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1907, File 3.26.2
The single–volume hospital register, July–December 1865 (444), is arranged chronologically. The volume includes such information as name, date admitted, date discharged or died, age, sex, and disease. The volume also contains a register of sick and wounded…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.63.6
Iron hot shot tongs. The tongs have elongated shanks and oval shaped handle rings at the top. The shanks are crossed and attach to each other with a rivet at the bottom of the shanks. The each part of the tongs have three (3) curved prongs ending in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.24.12
Iron hot shot tongs. The tong have prongs, elongated shanks and, rounded handle rings at the top. The shanks are crossed and are attached with a rivet near the bottom of the shanks. The each part of the tongs have four (4) curved claws ending in points.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.108.24.6
Hugh A. Carson (died May 9, 1913) was a delegate to Alabama's 1875 Constitutional Convention and served as a state representative for two terms in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. He was a former slave. Carson was a delegate to the 1875 Alabama…
