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First and Second Grades at Scribner School

Date: 1908
Description: First and second grade students in their classroom at Scribner School.
Book or Pamphlet

Mrs. Caroline Quarlls Watkins

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Caroline Quarlls Watkins, taken when she lived in Sandwich, Ontario.
Book or Pamphlet

Picking Cotton

Date: 06 1931
Description: African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia.
Print

George Dawson Denied Access to Raft

Date: 1857
Description: George W. Dawson, an African-American passenger from the steamer Central America swims to a piece of debris to which several men are clinging after ...
Photograph

Community Gathering

Date: 05 1924
Description: View of an outdoor gathering of an African American community.
Print

Free Men of Color and Choctaw Indian Volunteers at New Orleans

Date: 1982
Description: "The painting shows the Choctaws and a mixed group of Major Daquin's Battalion of Free Men of Color. The latter were mostly attired in civilian clothes bec...
Book or Pamphlet

Abaché and Kazoola

Date: 1914
Description: An African American woman and man pose together outdoors. Abaché, also known as Clara Turner, and Kazoola, also known as Cudjoe Lewis, were formerly enslav...

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