Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Family posed at board fence of brick house. Two woman, one holding a parasol, are standing in front of the fence on the left near the gate. Two men are sta... |
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Description: | Anne Braden and Rev. Ben Chavis at an SOC (Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Human Welfare) event. Braden and Chavis were founding members a... |
Date: | 04 24 1970 |
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Description: | Chicago R&B singer Baby Huey leaning against a car with his trumpeter, (likely Rick Marcotte) and conga player, (possibly Plato Jones) who is wearing an Am... |
Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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Description: | A man wearing a beret with two buttons on it dances across the stage. An audience member on the left is also dancing, and stagehands and photographers crow... |
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Description: | A formal meeting of men and women. All but one of those attending are African-American. |
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Description: | Daisy Bates is seated at a bar next to an unidentified man. She is wearing a black dress and is holding a cocktail. |
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Description: | Holiday card with an African American woman dancing with Santa Claus. She is wearing a green mini-dress with a belt, and red go-go boots. A phonograph and ... |
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Description: | Photographic holiday card of an African American family posed over an image of three dimensional letters that read: "NOEL." The letters are slanting from u... |
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Description: | Photographic holiday card of an African American family posed over "Merry Christmas" wrapping paper in the background. Holly and bells appear overhead. Eac... |
Date: | 1972 |
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Description: | Holiday card with three African Americans, two men and a baby. Inside of a black and white border, on a black background, the people appear in the lower le... |
Date: | 02 24 1954 |
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Description: | Luida Sanders (right), a "writer's aide" and a state public health educator, presents first and second prizes to two writers and patients at the Madison V... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Studio portrait of an African American family (probably Caroline Webb, Andrew Norris Webb Sr., and Andrew Norris Webb Jr.) in front of a painted backdrop. ... |
Date: | 1857 |
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Description: | Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Construction crew and observers standing on a scaffold. Trees, a wooden tripod with a block and tackle and the roof of a house are visible in the backgroun... |
Date: | 09 30 1978 |
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Description: | Full-length group portrait of a bride and her mother and father walking towards the center aisle of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House as the ceremo... |
Date: | 12 12 1954 |
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Description: | Three-quarter-length group portrait of a bride and groom with three of his brothers. She is wearing a street-length dress of ivory florentine, black shell ... |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | Several men and women watch as Governor Patrick Lucey signs the Equal Rights Amendment. Lloyd A. Barbee (left), Marlin Schneider, two unidentified people, ... |
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Description: | An African American Santa Claus has his arms around an African American man and woman in what appears to be a restaurant. There is wall paper and posters b... |
Date: | 05 09 1902 |
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Description: | Outdoor group portrait of chidren and adults, standing in the strawberry field of Paul C. Goetsch after picking strawberries. Four people are holding crate... |
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