This photograph shows all the students and a teacher in a school in Clinton Iowa in 1897. Among the student body are several Black students. On the back of the photograph someone has written the names of all the student...
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.
National Baptist Convention Series, 1936, Post Office at Nashville, Tenn., under the Act of March 3, 1879 A Pamphlet for Sunday School lessons for children ages 6-8.from the National Baptist Convention Series, 1936 Reverend A. M. Townsend, D.D.–Corresponding Secretary Rev.erend...
This article, “Negro Total on Campuses is only 2%” by William Trombley, was reprinted from the Los Angels Times. It cites a report, titled “State Universities and Black Americans” commissed by the National Association of State Universities and Landgrant Colleges....
Tama Iowa basketball team has a player from the Meskwaki people
The stereoview shows an enormous crowd of Black people, some even standing on a building ledge, looking in the direction of the photographer. The caption says “1482. Howard University” The right margin states: “Washington City D.C.” and the left margin...
Composite image of portraits and text by photographer Mike Whye showing teacher Jane Elliott and two boys in her class in a small town in Riceville, Iowa (population currently 800). The photos are part of an advertisement for a show...
A tradecard-sized announcement die-cut shaped like a fan, announcing the “Grammar school exhibiition, Allegory of the Great REbellion. Normal Hall. November Nineteenth, 1879.” The reverse side says: “Part First “Before the War–Concord–Dissension–Seccession. Part Second “The Story of the War.” It...
The stereoview shows an enormous student body, mainly girls, in front of the school in the school yard. The caption says: “6584. The colored school, Vicksburg, Miss., U.S.A.” The right margin says: “copyright 1891, by B.W. Kilburn: The left margin...
Harvey B. Gantt, a former student at Iowa State University, petitioned successfully to become the first Black student at Clemson Agricultural College in South Carolina. The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower courts ruling to allow...
A photo showing a female student spilling a paper cup, ostensibly of blood, surrounded by a crowd of onlookers. The caption reads :”(DI3) Iowa City, Iowa- Nov. 3–Protest with Blood–About 50 protesters poured paper cups of their own blood on...
A photo postcard of young students, one row sitting on the grass, the other standing. Each holds an open book and gazes at it. Back: someone has identified in pen all the students, seated and standing, and including those who...
Photograph is as long as a stereocard but is a single image. This is a studio portrait of the students at the Ebenezer school. All the students are white. All the girls are in white dresses the boys in jackets....
This stereoview shows a large group of Black students posing for their school photograph outside of a large school. The caption reads: “6584. The colored school, vicksburg [sic] Miss., U.S.A.” The right edge states: “Copyright 1891, by B. W. Kilburn”...
The photograph shows Black soldiers grouped around a pup tent. back: An extensive message addressed to “Miss Etta Smith, 620 Pitcher St., Baltimore, MD” Identified in pencil as 7th B. 163rd Depart Brigade, Camp Dodge, Iowa Postmark is from Des...
Photo shows the landscape of Tabor College and two buildings. The caption identifies “Adams Hall” and “Gaston Hall” and also says: “Tabor, Iowa. Pub. by Arthur T. West.” Back: along the left margin “United Art Publishing Co. New York City”...
Photo shows a large group of White students and faculty posing for a photograph on the steps of a University of Iowa building with enormous white pillars. One of those present might be Black, standing on the second from right...
Photo shows a group of students and their teacher. The group seems divided equally between Black and White students. The back is blank. The dealer said that this was a photograph from Red Oak, Iowa.
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