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Henry Mathews

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Description: Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas...
Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Photograph

African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
Photograph

Metalworker

Date: 1950
Description: The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker.
Photograph

First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi...
Photograph

First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi...
Painting

Artist at Work on the Jerusalem Panorama

Date: 1887
Description: Photograph of a watercolor painting by F.W. Heine of fellow artist Franz Rohrbeck. Rohrbeck is painting a study of a figure for the Jerusalem panorama (c...
Photograph

Portrait of Mr. Hendricks

Date: 1895
Description: A studio portrait of Mr. William W. Hendricks, a Black River Falls barber, dressed in his best, posing in front of a painted backdrop.
Photograph

Alex Haley and Kunte Kinte's Grave

Date: 1978
Description: Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ...
Magazine or Periodical

Harper's Weekly Canal Drawing

Date: 08 02 1862
Description: Engraved view of several men in a long trench digging Grant's canal on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg.
Photograph

Estelle Thompson at CIO School

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Description: Highlander Folk School instructor Estelle Thompson showing leaflet-making and stencil cutting at CIO school.
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Smelter Workers

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Description: Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them.
Photograph

Student Making Stencil at Highlander

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Description: Food, Tobacco and Agriculture student at Highlander Folk School creating a stencil to be used to make signs.
Photograph

Five Men Singing

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Description: Five African American men wearing suits and singing into a microphone. There is a small farmers union sign on the back wall.
Photograph

"Romance of the Reaper" Film Still

Date: 1929
Description: Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ...
Photograph

"Cyrus McCormick" and "Jo Anderson" in Forge Scene

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
Photograph

Baby Huey from the Audience

Date: 04 24 1970
Description: Chicago R&B act Baby Huey mid-performance viewed from the audience. The band was made up of a three man horn section, electric guitar, drums, congas, elect...
Photograph

Meatpackers Dance

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Description: Dance sponsored by the Women's Activities Committee of Local 13 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America union. Although the location is unidentified...
Photograph

Atlanta Stewards Training

Date: 1947
Description: A stewards' training class conducted by local 108 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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African American Labor Leaders

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Description: Banquet for African-American delegates to the convention of the Alabama State Industrial Union Council.

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