Three photos of Black American Women Holding Japanese Parasols
Three small format snapshots of three young Black women posing outside with a Japanese parasol.
WWI 1919 BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS DURING THE WAR IN EUROPE CHAMPS in Germany
PHOTO SHOWS THE 1919 CHAMPION BASKETBALL TEAM. SOLDIERS FROM THE 357th INFANTRY/90th DIVISION ARMY LEAGUE IN FRANCE —RIGHT ON THE BORDER WITH NAZI GERMANY WRITTEN ON THE BASKETBALL ARE THE CHAMPIONSHIP SPECIFICS. ON THE REVERSE OF THE PICTURE, GRANDPA HAS...
Mixed race girl controversy over admittance in Iowa
The photo information reads: “(DC3) Indianola, Iowa., Nov. 2–PROBLEMS OVER THE RAINBOW– Mr. & Mrs. Dwaine Palmer [white husband, Black wife] are shown with their daughter Michelle, 12, after playmates voted to allow Michelle into the international order of Rainbow...
Black men in Ottumwa, Iowa, posing for photograph
Photo postcard taken outside showing 6 men in coats and ties and hats, three seated, three standing behind them, all in front of the slats of a wooden house sent to Edward Rudd, 710 Norris Street, Ottumwa iowa
Young dark-skinned girl with earring
front: cdv portrait of a young, dark-skinned girl. She is dressed elegantly with earrings and a lace collar. Back: black cardboard with gold decoration and writing: “James, Photographer, Iowa City, Iowa. Negatives retained for future orders”
Rebecca, Charley & Rosa, Light-skinned Slave Children
CDV photograph of enslaved children in New Orleans with Caucasian phenotype, by Charles Paxson, New York. These cdvs were sold to raise money for abolitionist causes and create awareness and empathy for enslaved people. 1864. From the website: “Photograph shows...
White Man and implausible studio backdrop
Photograph of a White man standing next to a wicker chair with a painted backdrop to his right. The back drop is a narrow curtain with a painting of a window and shades and a stylized plant and crazy plant...
Waterloo Sewer Banquet
Image of the “sewer Banquet” in Waterloo, Iowa held in October 1903. Postcard is postmarked December 8, 1910, and was sent to “Miss Thresia Hoffman Lamotte” in Jackson County, Iowa. “So unique was this banquet in a sewer (no rats...
Boy Feeding Chickens, IA
E.E. Neal, Keota, Iowa postcard of a boy feeding chickens near a barn.Mailed to West Liberty Iowa.
Anamosa state penitentiary, Iowa
Looking southwest at the Administration Building, built in Romanesque, Gothic Revival. The institution was established in 1872. It is Iowa’s largest prison. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Back: blank, undivided {a second similar postcard has been addressed...
President Roosevelt’s western tour in Keokuk, Iowa
Stereoview of President Roosevelt giving a speech to an enormous crowd. Many elderly White men in front row. The caption: “Citizens of the Great West honoring the Nation’s Chief–President Roosevelt at Keokuk Iowa. Copyright 1908 Underwood and Underwood. Underwood &...
Civil War Black cavalry at rest stop
From the ca 1890 Taylor and Huntington reissue from the Anthony negatives. A large group of Black cavalrymen sit on the ground and on horseback at the left of the image. Among them are several White military as well. The...
“These are the Generations of Ham”
Stereoview published by Underwood & Underwood Photograph by Strohmeyer & Wyman This stereoview depicts a group of women, children and a man sitting and standing by a doorway to a clapboard building. All the adults hold children on their laps...
Healthy Baby Contest
Photo shows a number of people are posing, some with participating young children, for the Baby Health Contest. Many such contests were eugenics related. Names of people in the postcard are identified on the back and this leads to the...
White Man, oval portrait
Tintype photograph of a man with ruddy cheeks and an intense look, placed in an oval frame. Studio portrait. Under the photo is stamped: Baird & Twiford South-East Corner 4th and Jefferson Sts Burlington, Iowa Back shows that it was...
Young White girl in Victorian parlor
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...
Clarence Springsteel mug shot, Ft.Madison, Iowa prison
1922 mug shot image of Clarence Springsteel. The front shows three different images of Springsteel with the number 11807 across his shoulder in the middle picture. The back has a form saying “Wanted-$50.00 Reward” “This is a good likeness of...
Albert Abe mug shot, Ft.Madison, Iowa, prison
Mug shot with three images of Albert Abe who was a prisoner at the penitentiary in Ft. Madison, Iowa. He was assigned #11253, seen across his shoulder in the middle image. Under the images someone wrote “524” in pen. The...