Metal button with raised type on front reads, [TPORTER]. This button would have been sewn onto an enslaved person's shirt to identify him or her as belonging to Thomas Porter II. A circle border surrounds type on front of button. Back of button has raised…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.312.99
A round pewter button with "D BAILLIE / G•GROVE" stamped on the front. This button would have been sewn onto an enslaved person's shirt to identify him or her as belonging to David Baillie of Golden Grove Plantation, British Guyana. The button has…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.32.5
Gilt brass disk with attachment hole at the top. Obverse: struck with General George B. McClellan’s profile bust and “MAJ.GEN.G.B. McCLELLAN,/ PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN” around the perimeter. Reverse: "CO.1/ 5th U.S.COLORED./ VOLS" die stamped at center and "C.P…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.51.9
A circular brass tag inscribed with QUALLS / TIBBS on one side and 27 / USCT on the other. The inscription was stamped using individual letter and number dies. There are two holes through the tag above and below the inscription.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.4.6
Brass disk with attachment hole at top. Obverse: struck with image of eagle with shield and "IN THE WAR Of UNION 1861, 2 & 3 & 4". Reverse: "CO. H2RDT. U. S./ CAVY." Individually die stamped at center and "CORNELIUS ROBINSON" around perimeter.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.51.8
Brass disk with attachment hole at the top. Obverse: struck with image of eagle with shield and arrows at center and "IN THE WAR OF/ UNION/ 1861, 2 & 3" around perimeter. Reverse: individual letters die stamped "DRUMMIER" across lower center and "CoE.2nd…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.51.6
This black and white linocut depicts Harriet Tubman directing a group of individuals. She stands with her back to the viewer, looking over her right shoulder and down her right arm, which she points in a straight line to her right. She wears a light…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.21.7
Black and white linocut featuring Phillis Wheatley. Wheatley is in the foreground of the image with three women behind her. Wheatley is depicted in her well-known portrait pose, seated at a desk and writing on paper with a quill. Wheatley is facing to the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.21.8
Inaya Folarin Iman (born 8 November 1996) is a British journalist, commentator, a panelist on the BBC Radio show Moral Maze, and television presenter who has presented for GB News. She is also the director and founder of the Equiano Project (named after…
A rebound American first edition of Harriet A. Jacob’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself.” The book’s front and back cover has a marbled design of beige, black, and white. The spine binding is black leather with gilt lettering…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.97.6
Unbound indentures and contracts, 1865–67, are arranged by type of record and thereunder chronologically. They are registered in the registers of indentures and contracts and census returns of the black population of Floyd County (496) described above.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.98.4
The single–volume of indentures for orphan children, October 1865–February 1867 (144), is arranged in chronological order and numbered. The volume has a name index.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 2.3.13
