Robert E. Patten was a Black Iowan printers whose press created many signs, pamphlets, brochures and placards for the white and Black communities in Des Moines, Iowa. This placard had a small calendar but mainly serves as an advertisement for...
The 1953 Black Diamond, Centerville High School, Iowa, yearbook Many photographs of Simon Estes in his 1953 yearbook, showing his activities on track and football sports teams. A relative was a freshman at the time. Estes lived in Centerville, Iowa.
These five carte de visites were taken by the eminent photographer J. P. Ball. He was a Black man who became one of the most renown photographers of his time. He was based for several decades in Cincinnati, Ohio, and...
Magic lantern slide, “Octoroon” Statue in Hot House. “This sculpture, titled The Octoroon, was made by British artist John Bell. The young woman is depicted standing in a classic pose, not unlike many representations of Venus, but she is in...
Trade card advertising cigars. Image shows a newspaper man traveling on a donkey. He holds a broken umbrella, a piece of plumbing, and wears a bib that save “liver pad.” His mule’s saddlebags have three stereotyped figures: a Black man,...
photos shows four people–two Black women and two daughters– in elegant dresses posing in studio. Bottom of front says “J.P. King, K. Photographer, Hawkeye, Iowa” back” shows a drawing of an artist’s palette and brushes on an easel with flowers....
Fascism Philosphy Communism Leftist Patti-Jo ‘n Ginger cartoon in “The New Masses.” Patti-Jo was a cartoon by Jackie Ormes, the first Black woman cartoonist in a syndicated newspaper. The cartoon here was reproduced from the Pittsburgh Courier, July 12, 1947...
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. February 1920, vol. 19, n0. 4. Whole no. 112. Cover art by Frank Walts Conducted by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, opinion written by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois Articles include “Lynching Map, 1919;”...
“Photographer re-creates the emotional crisis of a powerful new novel” the famous photographer Gordon Parks creates images corresponding to Ralph Ellison’s classic 1952 novel “The Invisible Man.” Photo essay by Gordon Parks, “Invisible Man” “Speaking of Pictures, A Man Becomes...
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