Photo shows two horse kicking up a lot of dust while racing on a dirt road in Millersburg, Iowa. A jalopy is parked by the roadside. Back: An extensive message sent form Millersburg, Iowa to “Harry E. Calvert, Metmore, Kans.”
This photo postcard is titled “Kangaroo Court, Bellevue, Iowa” at the bottom of the image. Photo shows an animated crowd of men on a wooden sidewalk, participating in an event and several young boys watch them and a young Black...
Postcard photo of black man with chef’s hat leaning out of window with shutter like a place of business. Back: handwritten: “Clinton, Iowa”
Image shows a class photo with women in white blouses or dresses and men in suits and ties. Many of the students are White. There is one Black student in the far right of the second row. The caption in...
Photo shows an elementary school classroom sitting with their teacher outside, One Black student. The hand written note below the photo says “Dear Ones, we all wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” Back: The card is...
5 original photos, early 1900s, by the same photographer, 2 stamped on reverse, “POWELL YOUR PHOTOGRAPHER ALBIA, IOWA.” These black and white photographs Black Americans in their daily life: hoeing, pumping well water into a bucket for cows, doing laundry,...
The NAACP book, 30 Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918, stands as a measure for our culture, providing rarely presented statistical data pertaining to violence against Black Americans. The frequency of lynchings during the 50-year span of the...
Photo shows a studio shot of a Black woman wearing a jaunty white hat and white dress. She stands behind a wooden stile of tree branches and in front of a backdrop of a water scene with sailboats.
Tintype shows a dapper Black man on a bench posing for his photograph. The background is a dropcloth with a picture of a scene with a ticket booth and the words “NY State Fair 1903”. Whether the grass below his...
Photo shows Black soldiers at drill practice. Caption under photo reads: “Colored Infantry, Camp Dodge, Iowa” Back has message to “Sis” and is addressed to “Miss Esther Bains, Rock Island, Illinois” Cancel mark is “Des Moines, Iowa, Dodge Branch” Left...
Photograph shows a large group portrait of Black American officers from the 5th Provisional Company seated and standing in front of a building at the Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1917. This...
Headline article on front page : “Tammany’s Plot to Kill Negro Votes: Arrest of McKinley’s Colored Supporters Night Befre Election Planned” Article says: New York, October 31, Angered by the certainty that the colored vote of this city is almost...
La Mars, Iowa school photo. All White students, with boys on one side and girls on the other. Right margin has printed: “Franklin Street Public School, Le Mars, Iowa, Made in Germany. J. P. Feschbach, Importer and Publisher, Le Mars,...
Photo of Black man wearing cap in a park-like setting. Writing on back: “Boone Ia, June 13, 1909, Dear Brother I am well and hope you are the same. I am ashamed of my self for not writing but i...
This very faded stereoview shows two young Black children on a fence near a mule or horse. In very faded letters a caption on the picture says: “seeing the circus go by.” The left and right margins say: “Standard Series.”...
Photo postcard showing a group of Black people dressed in white for the Chautauqua days in Sac City Iowa. They might be jubilee singers. White tents can be seen in the background. The back has the publishers name on the...
Photo of a football team that seems to be from a high school. The photograph shows one Black player on the team. It has a photographer’s signature impressed at the bottom center of the photo and the words “Ottumwa Iowa”....
A stereoview depicting African-American educator and Civil Rights figure, Booker T. Washington, at the Tuskegee Institute with several notable figures, including Andrew Carnegie. The caption reads: “11151- Booker T. Washington and distinguished guests, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Copyright Underwood & Underwood”...
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