This 1880’s cabinet photograph shows the Shepard Family Band, a White family of musicians, with their brass instruments, posing for the photographer. The drum has a sign saying “Shepard Family.” Originally from Lawrenceville, New York, the Shepard Family Band toured...
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,...
Scene on a porch of two Black women styling a patient young girl’s hair, light streaming in. The photo appears to have been trimmed on the left side.
Photograph shows two children, a standing girl and a seated boy, each holding a toy. The girl holds something that looks like perhaps a ceramic bird. The boy holds the handle of a small two-wheeled toy wagon. In the wagon,...
Photo shows a group of Black men, women and children, ranging in ages, clustered around the entrance of a house. The caption reads: “From the cradle to the grave, from one year to 130 years old”. The right margin says:...
The stereoview shows a Black woman seated in a child’s bedroom and holding a young white girl in her lap. The child is in her nightgown. The caption in the bottom right of the photo says: “607 Tell Mammy about...
This stereoview is of an installation at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition showing life-size facsimiles of the Sioux Chief Gaul and his family. The display represents the Dakota section and contains the explanation under the display, with the number “462”....
Photo shows a Black woman posing for her portrait, 3/4 length, in a studio in Sioux City, Iowa. Back printed on left margin: “Day and Night Postal Card Studio, 309 Fourth Street, Sioux City, Iowa” The postcard has a long...
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