photo: Mainly white children, 1 White woman, 1 Black man, posing on outdoor school steps. Back: written in pencil: “Jefferson School Red Oak IA” But it could be Albia, Iowa, since there is a Jefferson, School in Albia.
Photo shows a group of students, mostly White, two Black students, outside their school by a shrub. Handwriting on front: “Our little school taken around the school flower bed in the fall.” Back has long message. Sent to “Master Harold...
Postcard is postmarked in Cedar Rapics and sentto Sweden. Postcard message written in Swedish. The writing is not on the back, it is also around the image on the front in the margin. Photograph is of a line of men,...
The Negro Disenfranchised: The First step into Slavery 15″ x 22″
PHOTO SHOWS THE 1919 CHAMPION BASKETBALL TEAM. SOLDIERS FROM THE 357th INFANTRY/90th DIVISION ARMY LEAGUE IN FRANCE —RIGHT ON THE BORDER WITH NAZI GERMANY WRITTEN ON THE BASKETBALL ARE THE CHAMPIONSHIP SPECIFICS. ON THE REVERSE OF THE PICTURE, GRANDPA HAS...
Photo postcard taken outside showing 6 men in coats and ties and hats, three seated, three standing behind them, all in front of the slats of a wooden house sent to Edward Rudd, 710 Norris Street, Ottumwa iowa
Black troops included in a parade in Waterloo Iowa
Image of the “sewer Banquet” in Waterloo, Iowa held in October 1903. Postcard is postmarked December 8, 1910, and was sent to “Miss Thresia Hoffman Lamotte” in Jackson County, Iowa. “So unique was this banquet in a sewer (no rats...
E.E. Neal, Keota, Iowa postcard of a boy feeding chickens near a barn.Mailed to West Liberty Iowa.
Looking southwest at the Administration Building, built in Romanesque, Gothic Revival. The institution was established in 1872. It is Iowa’s largest prison. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Back: blank, undivided {a second similar postcard has been addressed...
Stereoview of President Roosevelt giving a speech to an enormous crowd. Many elderly White men in front row. The caption: “Citizens of the Great West honoring the Nation’s Chief–President Roosevelt at Keokuk Iowa. Copyright 1908 Underwood and Underwood. Underwood &...
Photo shows a number of people are posing, some with participating young children, for the Baby Health Contest. Many such contests were eugenics related. Names of people in the postcard are identified on the back and this leads to the...
1922 mug shot image of Clarence Springsteel. The front shows three different images of Springsteel with the number 11807 across his shoulder in the middle picture. The back has a form saying “Wanted-$50.00 Reward” “This is a good likeness of...
The photo shows a group of mine buildings. A caption in red in the upper left says “Galleyville Mine” Back: unmarked, divided “The Galleyville mine was located just south of Centerville, where Drake Avenue meets the Numa Highway, on the...
Photo shows the football team in practice position. Back: Postcard has brief message from “Bates” and is addressed to “Mr. Harold (Pape) Shindan, New Sharon, Iowa” and is postmarked “Iowa City”. At the bottom someone has handwritten in pencil, “Nov...
The front of this advertising postcard shows a man in a bowler hat posing in front of a store front which has been turned into a large display publicizing a circus. The large banner reads “Wonderland” and below that “To-night...
Photo postcard, front image shows five boys, three White, two Black on a railroad track, all laughing as the two Black youths take boxing stances. Written on fron in white is “Sporting Life Colfax, Iowa -25-” Back, in handwritting: “Have...
Words by Sam.M. Lewis and Joe Young; Music by Geo. W. Meyer. Waterson Berlin & Snyder Col publishers at the Strand Theater Bldg Broadway at 47th Street New York To hear song, press link above 13.625″h x 10.5″w
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