Commissioned by the President’s Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership. Edited by John M. Gries and James Ford. This is one of the series of eleven books written for “Publications of the Presidents Conference on Home Building and Home...
This tinted postcard depicts an old home by a roadside across from a field. The printed caption under the photo says: “The Old Stone House, Clinton, Iowa. This house was a place of Refuge for Fugitive Slaves during Slavery Days”...
This UPI photo shows 7 people carrying signs in a picket line outside the Des Moines Capital building. The group is almost equally Black and White people. The signs read: “Who runs the City Council?” “Let Realtors Open the Closed...
Harper’s Weekly A Journal of Civilization, June 9, 1866, vol. X, no. 493 This issue of Harper’s Weekly has a full-page spread on images of “Freedmen” in North Carolina after the Civil War. The images include “Trent River Settlement, opposite...
This newspaper features articles on “Housing Conditions: Capitalism and Our Children;” “The Ideology of the Black Panther Party,” and “Pentagonized Society,” among others. The front page shows children playing in squalid conditions and states “We want decent housing for the...
Photo is a grainy b/w reproduction of John Brown’s cabin. Caption under photo says “John Brown Cabin, Osawatomie, Kansas’ Back: long message addressed to “Miss Lottie Gregory., Rockford, Ill. R.R. #4” The postcard is stamped from Osawatomie, Kansas.
This stereoview, mounted on yellow board, shows the Refugee Camp for freed African American Slaves at Harper’s Ferry by John P. Soule: a view with the Harper’s Ferry arsenal in the background and tents and tee-pee- like structures in the...
Front photo shows rural dirt road, two Black children on opposities of the road, and a white building over which is hand- written “Post Office.” At the bottom of the phot, in white, it says “P.O. Looking East, Buxton, IA.”...
“Another Fascist Attempt to Destroy the Party” A photo on p. 1 shows the police forced disrobing of the Black Panthers in Philadelphia. A double page spread describes “The ‘Attacks on the Philadelphia Offices Brought Forth the Staccato of Revolutionary...
Victorian Era photograph of a young girl named Marjorie Rockenback sitting in a period Victorian room – appears to be the parlor – surrounded by bookshelves, a child’s chair, pictures, pillows, a toy dog a statue & a doll. In...
Large albumen photo shows a Victorian home interior with a wall hung from floor to ceiling with artworks in fancy frames.
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,...
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