Headline article on front page : “Tammany’s Plot to Kill Negro Votes: Arrest of McKinley’s Colored Supporters Night Befre Election Planned” Article says: New York, October 31, Angered by the certainty that the colored vote of this city is almost...
Front of tradecard shows a drawing of two white horses and a man in a blue jacket, red vest and red, white and blue cap leading them by the reins. Back: The back is all text in different sizes and...
Press photo of Margaret Walker and her daughter sitting together on a couch. Walker was born in Georgia, lives in Iowa City. The newspaper article itself is affixed to the back of the press photo, as well as a snippet...
“Free Angela’ she is quoted in poster. June 27th 1970 “I think that if we look around us we see that somehow or another a very small minority of people in this country have all of the wealth in their...
Vintage, Round Tin, “BLAIR’S SNOW WHITE BLEACHING CREAM 1-1/2 OZS.”. “HELPS MAKE THE SKIN LOOK SMOOTH AND FAIR LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA”. The image on the lid shows two young handsome white people, a man and a woman. Tin is almost full...
Tin of Pressing Oil hair product “Lucky Brown” Negro Hair Pressing Oil Tin Dated 1938 This colorful tin contained special oil for straightening out kinky or tightly curled hair. The image on the lid is a glamorous woman of ambiguous...
The photo shows a studio portrait of a woman in short costume and with an enormous afro-style hair. The studio props are not the regular period furniture but a large vine, which she clings to. Under the photo is the...