115,761 matching cards · 24 cards per page
COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Original caption reads: "Native woman in workaday costume, grinding young Indian corn, with a stone rolling pin on a stone to make 'kankhi' (kenki) C.C.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180043
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. MUSEUM OBJECT Visual Arts 1982
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG A reproduction print titled “African Women” by Varnette Honeywood. The vibrant print depicts a left profile view of six women of different skin tones and different colors and styles of headwear, standing in pairs. Going from back left to front right, the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog 2023.39.17
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Original caption reads "Women going to market. Everything is carried on the head, except children.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180057
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE FILE Historical photographs & visual records circa 1973-circa 1975
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “African Women's Hairstyles, Ikenne, Ibadan, Ijebu-Ode, and Ila” (Slides [32056000030514]).
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog sova.eepa.2005-002_ref240
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records ca. 1923-1925
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “African women standing in a stream” (Photographic prints).
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1997-006, Item EEPA.1997-006-0095
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG African women performing domestic chores.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180065
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. MUSEUM OBJECT Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design 2020
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Africana Rocking Chair (a) with seat cover (b) designed by Norman Teague with leather craftsperson Yohance Lacour. The rocking chair is constructed entirely from matte, ebony finished basswood. The smooth, square seat has rounded edges and narrows slightly…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog 2024.21ab
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG African men, women and children.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180063
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca.1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Group portrait of African men, women, children and one European woman.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180089
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Original caption reads "Capt.P.H.A. Leggatt & Native officer Dambarno C. C. both killed".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180069
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Original caption reads: "Superintendent Ellis & Mrs. Ellis & Revs. Glandfield, Morris & others & native pastors Wesleyan Mission Cape Coast-Rev Ellis died.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180045
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records 1901
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Original text on verso reads: "Accra races Decber 1901.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180094
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Original caption reads "Side Entrance to Post Office DC's Court Customs & Telegraph offices in the Castle Cape Coast on road leading up from the beach.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180006
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records 1908
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Original text on verso reads: "Decr 1908 15th-17th.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180084
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca.1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Africans attending a special event holding umbrellas aloft. Two men carrying another in a special carrier. One man holds a ceremonial staff.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180092
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & documents Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Tape #61 Format: VHS. Color, Sound. Long Play VHS Taped TV Broadcast PBS Documentary Series Produced by PBS and WGBH.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog sova.nmaahc.a2012.79.av_ref326
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & documents Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Tape #63 Format: VHS Taped from TV broadcast Produced by PBS. America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Catalog sova.nmaahc.a2012.79.av_ref328
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Group portrait of Africans in uniform carrying swords over their shoulders.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180083
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca.1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG African soldiers presenting arms in front of colonial officials at the railroad station.
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180085
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records [ca. 1910]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Original caption reads "landing round the rocks at Cape Coast.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180053
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records 1966-02
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “Africans playing game with cowrie shells, Lamu Island, Kenya” (Slides (photographs)).
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0036
Explore record → COLLECTION RECORD Image not available Explore the catalog description and source record. ARCHIVE RECORD Historical photographs & visual records 1966-02
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG Cataloged as “[Africans playing mancala with cowrie shells], Lamu Island, Kenya” (Slides (photographs)).
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art Catalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0037
Explore record → Loading image… BIOGRAPHY Military Biography
Surgeon-Major James Africanus Beale Horton (c. 1835 – c. 1883) was a British Army officer, surgeon, writer and banker. Born in Gloucester, Sierra Leone into an Igbo family who were liberated from enslavement by the Royal Navy, he began attending the Sierra…
Wikipedia contributors
Read biography → Loading image… BLACK PRESS Black Press & Journalism 1899-12-21
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG This card identifies the front page of Africo-American Presbyterian (Wilmington, N.C.), December 21, 1899. The Library of Congress preserves this dated newspaper issue in its Chronicling America collection. Publication place recorded in the catalog:…
Library of Congress Catalog sn84025826 · 1899-12-21 · edition 1
Explore record → Biographies, museum objects and archive records are distinct card types. Every card links to its historical source.
Loading image…
Loading image…