A compilation reel of 16mm home movies filmed by Cab Calloway during a tour of South America, with both Kodachrome and black-and-white film edge codes indicating years of 1950 and 1955. The initial (somewhat under-exposed) color footage is inside the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.2.4.1a
Compilation reel of 16mm color home movies of Cab Calloway and his family in Long Island, New York at Easter. The film also has footage of Calloway's tour of South America in 1951 including carnival and beach scenes in Montevideo, la Plaza Independencia, a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2015.273.2.5.1a
This silent, color, home movie was shot by Cab Calloway while on a music tour in Haiti in 1951. It consists of an original 16mm film strip (a) on an original 100-foot film reel (b) and is housed in an original 100-foot film box (c). The film begins with…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.237.20.1abc
A framed carborundum mezzotint print depicting a small, dilapidated cabin next to a pond. Three figures are on the cabin’s porch: a woman holds a baby next to a figure seated in a rocking char. A set of steps and a winding path lead down to a small dock…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.70.2
The cabin is a one-story, two-room, rectangular, weatherboard clad building with an extended side gable roof which acts as the overhanging porch roof and a brick /masonry fireplace on the west elevation. The structure is a timber frame, meaning a heavy…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.57
An albumen print cabinet card photograph of a young man posing with a hat. Captured in studio against a bright backdrop, a dark-haired man stands with a hat balanced on his proper right arm. He wears a dark jacket, vest, trousers, and shoes, with a white…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.244.16
Cabinet card photograph of a World War I soldier in uniform tunic, puttees, and an overseas hat. The soldier is depicted in three-quarters profile, standing on a set of exterior steps in front of a doorway. The photograph has been adhered to a dark grey…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.155.102
A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified child photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with the name and location of the photo studio printed on the front along the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.36
A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified child photographed at the Ball & Sons studio in Seattle, Washington. The photo is mounted on light-colored pasteboard stamped with the Ball & Sons logo and location on the bottom front side. The card has been…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.10
A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified child photographed at the Ball & Sons studio in Seattle, Washington. The photo is mounted on dark-colored pasteboard stamped with the Ball & Sons logo and store location on the bottom of the front side. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.15
A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified child photographed at the Ball & Sons studio in Seattle, Washington. The photo is mounted on dark-colored pasteboard stamped with the Ball & Sons logo and store location on the bottom of the front side. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.18
A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified young child photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photo is mounted on dark-colored pasteboard. The child has dark hair and is wearing a white gown and a pair of black boots, and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.30
A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified man, girl, and woman photographed at the Ball & Sons studio in Seattle, Washington. The photo is mounted on dark-colored pasteboard stamped with the Ball & Sons logo and store location on the bottom of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.21
A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified man photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with the name and location of the photo studio printed on the front along the bottom.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.35
A cabinet card photograph of an unidentified man taken by Gebhardt & Co. in Memphis, Tennessee. The man stands next to a couch with a light color hat in his left hand and an umbrella in his right. He is dressed in a dark color, long trench coat with a suit…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.107
A black and white photograph portrait of a woman with long hair tied back with curls placed over her right shoulder. She is wearing a dark gown with puff sleeves and a white, lace neck ruffle. Black stamps on the bottom left and right corners on the front…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.94.1
This black-and-white photograph attributed to Justus C. Swan has a full-length portrait of an unidentified woman standing at a quarter-turn to her left. She gazes in that direction with her head turned nearly in profile. She is wearing a dark-colored…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.111.10
A sepia tone cabinet card photograph of a Buffalo Soldier wearing a buffalo hide coat. Captured in studio against a solid backdrop, a young dark-haired Buffalo Soldier, holding a 25th Infantry uniform cap, stands gazing to his proper left. He wears a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.10.1
A black-and-white photograph of Charles, Jake, and Tom Young photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with decorative edges. The name and location of the photo studio are printed…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.42
A cabinet card photograph of four persons with a shared surname, one adult and three children, taken by Taylor and Wyre in Nashville, Tennessee. On the back, the names of the four people handwritten in pencil: [Jennie Lewis / Georgia Lewis Davis / Bessie…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.82
A cabinet card of Frederick Douglass and his grandson Joseph Douglass. Frederick Douglass is featured on the right side of the image and sits in a chair holding papers in his hands atop his lap. Joseph Douglass, in the left side of the image, sits atop a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2010.26.29.8
A faded cabinet card photograph of Jane Townsend and Lou Ella McMurray. Jane Townsend is seated and facing forward, looking slightly off to the left. She is only visible from the chest up and wears a dark colored blouse or dress. LouElla McMurry is…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.7
A cabinet card portrait of Mary Jane Hale Welles wearing a funeral dress designed by Elizabeth Keckly (sometimes spelled Keckley). The albumen print is on a Henry Ulke card mount with a narrow black border. This full length portrait shows Mary Jane Hale…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.35.2.2
A black and white photograph of Sarah Ann Blunt Crozely. Crozely faces center left. She wears a tignon and capelet. Text on the bottom of the photograph reads: [Carter / Worcester. Mass.]. The back of the photograph has an inscription that identifies the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.49.6
