Available Works or Citations from Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture
An advertisement card for a revival week at The First Church of the Nazarene in Detroit, Michigan. The card features a printed photo of a man wearing a suit jacket and tie at the left center. The rest of the card is printed with text in various sizes and fonts with details about church events, including revivals and guest music…
An advertising card for a performance by the Cleveland Colored Quintet with Mrs. Lacy in Detroit, Michigan. The card has a photo of the music group along the top left. The five (5) men are photographed from the chest up in a line and all wear suit jackets and ties. Text detailing the performance schedule and details about a revival…
An advertisement card for a Youth Crusade event at The Detroit Institute of Arts Auditorium featuring the Cleveland Colored Quintet and the speaker Capt. James Deweerd. The card is printed in dark blue and orange ink with details about the event, including speakers and musical guests. The upper center of the card features a printed photo of the Cleveland Colored…
Reverend Dr. Amos Brown discusses his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi and meeting Medgar Evers, who quickly became his mentor. Brown was a leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as a teenager, leading the Jakson chapter and then the whole state Youth Council and traveling with Mr.. Evers across the country to attend a national…
Minutes from the 18th Annual Meeting of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World. The meeting was held from August 28-30, 1917. The publication consists of over one hundred (100) pages bounded together with staples and adhered to a tan paper cover. The cover features black text flanking a round emblem in the center. The text…
Leroy “Satchell” Paige baseball card. Baseball car featured color image of Paige in uniform, depicted from above the chest. Dark blue type at bottom at the car reads: [LEROY “SATCHELL” PAIGE]. The reverse side of the baseball card features a biography and statistics.
A black and white photograph of the Oberlin Academy Preparatory School Class of 1892. There are three (3) rows of students. The first row is one (1) girl in a white dress. Her hair is pulled back and she has curls in the front. She appears to be kneeling on the ground. The middle row contains four (4) girls in…
LP (a) and sleeve (b) of Kitty Kaye and The Cats, “Fishtruck Boogie” and Allen Thomas and Orchestra’s “Blowing My Horn.” The LP has a red label on the front and back that begins with the logo for [Hawk / Record]. Underneath on either side of the hole are record manufacturing information, [72053-A] and [E3KB-5393]. The same information is on…
An image of Jim Brown playing football in1965. The image features Brown holding the ball with both hands mid-run. He is wearing his Cleveland Browns, number 32 uniform which is covered in dirt.
A leather photograph album containing 20 photographic images, including sixteen carte-de-visite and four tintypes, some of which are paper-mounted. The portraits capture men and women of various ages, either standing or seated in interior spaces. The interior of the leather photograph album features a large brown decorative ink marked: [Photograph / ALBUM / Samuel Bowles & Co. / top of…