Postcard is postmarked in Cedar Rapics and sentto Sweden. Postcard message written in Swedish. The writing is not on the back, it is also around the image on the front in the margin. Photograph is of a line of men,...
Photo shows the football team in practice position. Back: Postcard has brief message from “Bates” and is addressed to “Mr. Harold (Pape) Shindan, New Sharon, Iowa” and is postmarked “Iowa City”. At the bottom someone has handwritten in pencil, “Nov...
Photo postcard, front image shows five boys, three White, two Black on a railroad track, all laughing as the two Black youths take boxing stances. Written on fron in white is “Sporting Life Colfax, Iowa -25-” Back, in handwritting: “Have...
This photo postcard is titled “Kangaroo Court, Bellevue, Iowa” at the bottom of the image. Photo shows an animated crowd of men on a wooden sidewalk, participating in an event and several young boys watch them and a young Black...
1955 Media Photo Dora Lee Martin wears the “Queen of Queens” crown. This is an original media photo. Dora Lee Martin, University of Iowa, wears the “Queen of Queens” crown after her coronation. The 17 year old Negro student was...
Cabinet card photograph featuring Black and White schoolchildren outside a school. One boy holds a handmade wooden toy sword. The right edge of the photo side of card states: “G. E. Fahr, Photographer, Burlington, Ia.”
Image shows a class photo with women in white blouses or dresses and men in suits and ties. Many of the students are White. There is one Black student in the far right of the second row. The caption in...
Photo shows an elementary school classroom sitting with their teacher outside, One Black student. The hand written note below the photo says “Dear Ones, we all wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” Back: The card is...
Barack Obama VOTE Iowa Poster Register and Vote Early 2008 Presidential Campaign – Obama Biden according to Wikipedia “Iowa was won by the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, by a 9.54% margin of victory. Obama took 53.93% of...
Group of school children posing outside of a wooden schoolhouse. The back of the postcard says, in pencil, “Near Swisher” It is possible that two of the children are Black young boys. All the boys wear caps.
Photo of a football team that seems to be from a high school. The photograph shows one Black player on the team. It has a photographer’s signature impressed at the bottom center of the photo and the words “Ottumwa Iowa”....
front: photo of integrated school group posing outside of the school. back, stamped on left margin: “Chas. I. Hammond, Centerville Iowa” The lengthy hand-written message is addressed to “Dear Uncle” and the card was sent to “Mr. Stright Barker, Plainfield,...
Front of card shows an interior of a classroom with rows of desks and children in many of them. Most of the children are White; a Black child is in a desk in the center back. Under the photographs is...
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