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”....
This stereoview is unusual because it is not a photograph but a drawing. The image is of a preacher and his congregation from various viewpoints. Each viewpoint is accompanied by written words in a vernacular and the phrase: “Trubble in...
A stereoview depicting African-American educator and Civil Rights figure, Booker T. Washington, at the Tuskegee Institute with several notable figures, including Andrew Carnegie. The caption reads: “11151- Booker T. Washington and distinguished guests, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Copyright Underwood & Underwood”...
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 hand-tinted stereoview shows a group of Black American women and children posing on a rice raft, standing with their arms crossed in front of their bodies, looking straight at the camera. The photo is captioned: “A Rice Raft, South...
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”....
This stereoview show a classroom at the Tuskegee Institute with both boys and girls at desks and at the blackboards working on mathematical equations. The caption says: “V26144-An Arithmetic class, Tuskegee.” The right hand margin says: “Meadville, Pa., New York,...
Black man in canoe near railroad tracks. No other information. Back is decorative.
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,...
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...
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...
Stereoview shows Black workers with bushel baskets of pineapples in a wide field. The captions reads: “13740 T Harvesting Indian River Pineapple, a Native Fruit, in Florida.” The left margin says: “Keystone View Company Copyright 1904 Manufacturers Publishers B. L....
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...
Photo postcard shows the toppled statue of Frederick III with several White men and one Black American soldier at the left. Friedrich III (1831 – 1888) was the German emperor and king of Prussia for 99 days. The sculpture, commissioned...
The photo shows a Civil War veteran who apparently lost his right hand or arm. The man is smoking a cigar and wearing a white hat and jacket which has been opened. He is holding his child with his left...
Photo postcard with image of a line of Black performers in various types of attire on a stage. The back of the postcard says “Miss Nettie Miller / East Berlin / Adams Co / Penna MJW is written on the...
Large scale photograph postcard Who Radio Des Moines Iowa with “Cowboy Ken” and “Uncle Stan” holding with two prop dolls: a toy Rabbit and a caricatured Black doll that was called “Nappy.”
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...
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