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Algerian Bedouin Boy

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Bedouin boy with a soldier. The boy is pledging that he will kill his father "with joy" if the father should serve the French forces in the gue...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Algiers

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of a harvesting scene in Algiers. Includes a color illustration of a horse-drawn grain binder. Caption reads: "Algiers — In this far off country o...
Photograph

South African McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Dealership

Date: 1899
Description: Four men and a dog posing along the storefront of a South African McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership owned by C. North & Son.
Photograph

Leo Kehl with Group of African Men

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Description: Leo Kehl, head of the Kehl School of Dance in Madison, Wisconsin, poses with a group of African men in native attire on an unknown occasion.
Photograph

Africans Ride in Gatti Truck

Date: 1939
Description: Native Africans ride in the back of an International truck during Commander Atillio Gatti's tenth African expedition. The Expedition was sponsored by Inter...
Photograph

Explorers Photographing in the African Congo

Date: 1939
Description: Members of Commander Atillio Gatti's tenth African expedition taking photographs from the top of an International truck. Native Africans are standing, hold...
Photograph

C.N. King in Africa with the "Truck that Crossed the Sahara"

Date: 09 10 1928
Description: Clyde N. King standing next to an International Special Delivery truck at the "Mission in Buta" in the Belgian Congo. Three men are sitting on elephants ne...
Photograph

"Truck that Crossed the Sahara" in Africa

Date: 09 10 1928
Description: Men on elephants near an International Special Delivery truck at the "Mission in Buta" in the Belgian Congo. Most of the men ride on elephants while one s...
Photograph

Community Leadership Workshop

Date: 08 1955
Description: A community leadership workshop session, August-September, at Highlander Folk School. Elizabeth Brinkman, Germany, in background in a flower dress; obscure...
Photograph

Kentucky Alliance Meeting

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Description: A meeting at the Braden Center. Although unidentified, it is probably a meeting of the Kentucky Alliance. Identified individuals include local activists An...
Postcard

Singer Advertising Card - Zululand Group

Date: 1892
Description: Chromolithograph card of a group of people from "Zululand" in "native" costume, posing next to a Singer sewing machine. Part of a "Costumes of All Nations,...
Poster

Boycott Polaroid

Date: 12 29 1970
Description: Poster advocating the boycott of Polaroid cameras due to the company's supposed involvement in South Africa's apartheid regime. A list of grievances and de...
Photograph

Traveling By Hammock

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Description: View of a white man reclining in a pole strung hammock, pith helmet by his side. The hammock pole is being carried by two Africans and savannah is in the b...
Book or Pamphlet

March of the Slaves

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Description: Two illustrations depicting the capture by Europeans of Africans who were taken away on ships to be slaves. The caption is in French.
Photograph

Illustration of An Angolian Prisoner

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Description: View of an Angolian prisoner with hands and feet bound in a wooden brace. Caption reads, "These methods were used to capture and hold the prisoners which w...
Photograph

Red Crescent Worker Bandaging Chest

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker bandages a National Liberation Front member's chest outdoors. He wears a Red Crescent arm band to id...
Photograph

Mabel and Ebenezer Iwuagwu

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Portrait of Mabel and Ebenezer Iwuagwu of Owerri, Nigeria, dressed in Nigerian garb worn on special occasions. They were reunited after five years apart. E...
Poster

SNCC poster

Date: 
Description: Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) poster featuring an African man and child on red background.
Print

International Truck Advertising Proof Featuring Commander Gatti

Date: 1949
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color photographs relating to an expedition to Africa by explorer Attilio Gatti. Includes images of n...
Photograph

Allée de Pyramides

Date: 1890
Description: View down road lined with trees in Egypt. A group of Egyptians are standing and sitting between the trees and the river, and travelers on the road are walk...

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