The collection

<I>Plan of Group Insurance for Employes of The Pullman Company</I>

The Prudential Insurance Company of America · 1929

ink on paper; 6 7/8 × 5 1/16 × 1/8 in. (17.5 × 12.9 × 0.3 cm)

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<I>Sharp's Language Drills and Test: Fifth Grade</I>

Webster Publishing Company · 1929

ink and graphite on paper; H x W x D: 9 5/16 × 6 × 1/4 in. (23.7 × 15.2 × 0.6 cm)

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Press kit for the film Black Gold

Norman Studios · 1928

ink on paper; H x W: 21 15/16 × 28 1/16 in. (55.8 × 71.3 cm)

Public domain

Gelatin silver print of four 1927 Mississippi River flood images

Illinois Central Railroad · April 30, 1927

silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper; H x W: 7 7/8 x 10 1/16 in. (20 x 25.5 cm)

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<I>The Ballad of a Brown Girl: An Old Ballad Retold</I>

Countee Cullen · 1927

ink on paper; H x W: 10 × 6 1/2 × 1/4 in. (25.4 × 16.5 × 0.6 cm); H x W x D (closed): 9 7/8 × 6 9/16 × 7/16 in. (25.1 × 16.7 × 1.1 cm)

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Desk from the Hope School

A. H. Andrews & Co. · 1925–1954

iron and hardwood; H x W x D: 26 3/4 × 20 1/8 × 24 3/4 in. (67.9 × 51.1 × 62.9 cm)

Desk from the Hope School

A. H. Andrews & Co. · 1925–1954

iron and hardwood; H x W x D: 23 3/8 × 22 1/8 × 44 in. (59.4 × 56.2 × 111.8 cm)

Magazine clipping advertising The Plantation Club, NYC

Vogue Magazine · May 1924

ink on paper; H x W: 12 3/4 × 9 11/16 in. (32.4 × 24.6 cm)

Singer model 66 treadle sewing machine and motor from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Singer Corporation · 1921

paint on iron and wood with plastic and metal; H x W x D (Sewing Machine): 8 13/16 × 7 1/16 × 16 7/16 in. (22.4 × 18 × 41.8 cm); H x W x D (Foot pedal): 1 15/16 × 3 3/8 × 6 1/8 in. (5 × 8.5 × 15.5 cm)

Bronze African Redemption Medal of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Universal Negro Improvement Association · c. 1920

bronze and leather; 2011.57.18a: 1 3/4 × 1 5/8 × 1/16 in. (4.5 × 4.2 × 0.2 cm); 2011.57.18b: 6 5/16 × 11/16 × 13/16 in. (16 × 1.8 × 2 cm)

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Press Release from the Lincoln Motion Picture Company

St. Louis Argus · January 5, 1917

ink on paper; H x W: 8 × 5 3/4 in. (20.3 × 14.6 cm)

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<I>13962 A colored brigade building trenches at Camp Devens, Mass.</I>

Underwood & Underwood · 1917–1919

albumen, sodium chloride and silver nitrate on photographic paper and cardboard; H x W: 3 1/2 x 7 in. (8.9 x 17.8 cm)

Poster for the Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia

Mother Bethel AME Church · 1916

ink on paper; H x W: 16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.6 x 50.5 cm)

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Typewritten formula for Poro hair rinse

Poro College · 1915–1953

ink on paper; H x W: 4 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. (11.7 x 21.3 cm)

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Picture postcard to Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend

George S. Graves Co. · 1914; sent September 1917

ink on paper; H x W: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (8.9 x 14 cm)

Letter written by Nelson Jordan Jr. and Nelson Jordan to Julia Womack

Rev. Nelson Jordan Jr. · February 4, 1910

ink on paper; H x W (.1): 7 15/16 × 9 7/8 in. (20.2 × 25.1 cm); H x W (.2): 3 1/2 × 5 3/8 in. (8.9 × 13.7 cm)

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<I>The Messenger and Educator Vol. 3 No. 6</I>

Kittrell College · March 1908

ink on paper; H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)

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Photographic postcard of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Breitkopf & Härtel · c. 1905

silver bromide and photographic gelatin on photographic paper and card stock; H x W: 5 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. (13.7 x 8.6 cm)

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Medal for United Spanish War Veterans

United Spanish War Veterans · after 1904

bronze and ribbon; 2 5/8 x 7/8 x 1/4 in. (6.7 x 2.2 x 0.6 cm)

<I>When The Moon Shines</I>

Bert Williams · 1904

ink on paper; H x W: 13 3/4 × 10 3/4 in. (34.9 × 27.3 cm)

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Cabinet card studio portrait of a young woman standing

George G. Donaldson · c. 1900

silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper on cardboard; H x W x D (Mounted): 8 × 5 7/8 × 1/16 in. (20.3 × 15 × 0.2 cm); H x W (Image): 3 1/2 × 5 1/16 in. (8.9 × 12.8 cm)

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<I>No. 1036, Cabin in the Corn</I>

Thomas H. Lindsey · 1895–1910

albumen and silver on paper on card mount; H x W (Image): 4 3/8 × 7 1/4 in. (11.1 × 18.4 cm); H x W (Sheet): 5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm)

Cabinet card of Frederick Douglass with his grandson Joseph Douglass

Denis Bourdon · May 10, 1894

albumen and silver on photographic paper on card mount; H x W: 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (16.5 × 10.8 cm)

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Cabinet card of an unidentified man

Ideal Portrait Co. · 1894–1895

silver and photographic gelatin or collodion on printing-out paper on card mount; H x W: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (16.5 x 10.8 cm)