A picture postcard mounted on black mat board featuring a color image of an alligator biting the backside of a kneeling Black man. A second, smaller alligator is next to the other. The man is wearing a white shirt, black necktie, and blue pants. His hands…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.7.389
A signed, second edition of “A Date With A Dish: A Cook Book of American Basic Recipes” by Freda De Knight. The yellow hardcover book has 426 pages with illustrations by S. Lodico and contains recipes originally published in De Knight’s “Ebony” column as…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.10
Postcard image of a group of children, a European nun, and a couple of young African women beside a building. Text on front, bottom reads: "Une creche en Afrique noire." Text on front, top reads: "Souers Missionaires de Notre-Dame des Apotres; Venissieux…
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog sova.eepa.1985-014_ref8661
Newspaper clipping entitled, [A Decatur County Farmer Replies]. The introduction of the clipping refers to a satirical poem that was put into circulation by the Republican Party in reference to an upcoming Presidential election. The brief introduction…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.258.7
Donor notes read: "A design on another house at Lago. Taken on patrol to the Limba village of Lago, April-May, 1979. The date on the slide is AUG 79.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1593
Cataloged as “A detail of a verandah post figure from the Edo Collection of the National Museum of Lagos, 62.17.21, Lagos, Nigeria” (Negatives (photographic)).
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2016-007, Item EEPA 2016-007-4005
Donor notes read: "A developed swamp belonging to the Paramount Chief of Sinkunia Dembelia chiefdom. Jan. - Feb. 1980. The date on the slide is MAY 80.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1763
Donor notes read: "A devil and drummer. Welcoming celebration for the new PCVs at Kalangba, Sept. 30, 1980. Pictures taken at the 1980 Peace Corps Agricultural Training Program held at Kalangba (A Loko chiefdom capital about 15 miles north of Makeni on the…
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1916
Donor notes read: "A devil. Kalangba, Sept. 30, 1980. Pictures taken at the 1980 Peace Corps Agricultural Training Program held at Kalangba (A Loko chiefdom capital about 15 miles north of Makeni on the Kamakwie road). The date on the slide is JAN 81.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1925
A color photograph of a crowd with a boy at center waering an angry expression and a sleeveless black shirt trimmed in white. Behind him is a man with a mustache and a man wearing a yellow hard hat.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.140.27
A color photograph of a protest sign in front of a Chicago police van. The handmade sign, held by a person out of the frame, reads "We will not / stand for your / inciting violence / Red King / Down with forced houseing" [sic]. Only the top of the head and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.140.26
An 18 mimeographed page segregated travel guide, stapled, with original printed blue wrappers produced by the United States Travel Bureau for African Americans traveling inside the United States. The cover reads [UNITED STATES TRAVEL BUREAU / NEGRO HOTELS…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.33