button: “Iowa for Obama” portrait of Obama waving against a map of Iowa. Obama became president in 2008 and in 2012. According to the New York Times, “In 2008, as the story goes, black voters were uncertain about Barack Obama’s...
Circassion women were part of the P.T. Barnum circus. Of course, they were not really from Circassia in the North Caucasus. Barnum hyped them as such because of the renown of the beauty of women from that region and the...
Four cabinet card photographs, said to be taken in Iowa, show Black workers and a White boss on site at wooden structure. One photograph shows a lower level in the ground and tracks being laid. Backs are blank.
1880s albumen round Kodak of Will James, a Black African American porter, and the “Mascotte” train at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Someone wrote the information in ink under the photograph. “Will James & The – “Mescotte” Council Bluffs. Iowa, Sep, 12,...
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