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SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 37m

Photograph of a man wearing a light colored jacket, vest and necktie https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.61.26

Photograph of a man wearing a light colored jacket, vest and necktie

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 3h

Pinback button promoting All-African People's Revolutionary Party https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.201.1.34

Pinback button promoting All-African People's Revolutionary Party

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 4h

Ambrotype of a white baby being held by a man https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2008.9.3

Ambrotype of a white baby being held by a man

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 7h

Class of 1892 Oberlin Academy Preparatory School https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.86

Class of 1892 Oberlin Academy Preparatory School

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 10h

Piano from Pilgrim Baptist Church used by Thomas Dorsey https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.134.1a-g

Piano from Pilgrim Baptist Church used by Thomas Dorsey

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 1d

Letter to Giles Saunders from Samuel Fox regarding the slave trade https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.174.3.3

Letter to Giles Saunders from Samuel Fox regarding the slave trade

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 1d

Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Shriner https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2017.30.17

Carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Shriner

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 1d

Lobby card for Bargain with Bullets https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.118.86.2

Lobby card for Bargain with Bullets

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 1d

The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 47 https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2016.166.41.8

The Liberator, Vol. XXV, No. 47

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 1d

Paterson City Club vs. Baltimore Black Sox https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2010.44.1

Paterson City Club vs. Baltimore Black Sox

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 2d

Brown pin-striped suit worn by Sammy Davis Jr. https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.118.5.1-.2

Brown pin-striped suit worn by Sammy Davis Jr.

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 2d

Flight helmet worn by Thunderbird pilot Gen. Lloyd W. Newton https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.221ab

Flight helmet worn by Thunderbird pilot Gen. Lloyd W. Newton

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 2d

Tintype of a man https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2010.36.11.15

Tintype of a man

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 2d

Coverlet woven in a Pine Bloom pattern by an unidentified enslaved person https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2017.108.3

Coverlet woven in a Pine Bloom pattern by an unidentified enslaved person

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 2d

367th Inf 92nd Div. On way to Marbache Mthe et Moscelle, Oct. 12, 1918 https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.97.23.8

367th Inf 92nd Div. On way to Marbache Mthe et Moscelle, Oct. 12, 1918

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 3d

Photograph of a woman holding a parasol https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2016.5.2.33

Photograph of a woman holding a parasol

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 3d

U.S. Model 1842 musket and bayonet by Springfield Armory https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2018.116.5ab

U.S. Model 1842 musket and bayonet by Springfield Armory

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 3d

Print of Cab Calloway dancing at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.237.7

Print of Cab Calloway dancing at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 3d

Leaflet for Mississippi Freedom Summer https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.109.3

Leaflet for Mississippi Freedom Summer

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 3d

Identification tag for drummer “George Washington,” with American eagle https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.51.6

Identification tag for drummer “George Washington,” with American eagle

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 4d

Batouala https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2018.65

Batouala

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 4d

Camera from the studio of H.C. Anderson https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2007.1.37.1

Camera from the studio of H.C. Anderson

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 4d

Daguerreotype of a young woman https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2010.16

Daguerreotype of a young woman

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 4d

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.46.29.58

Photographic postcard of a woman standing next to a wooden chair

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 4d

"Riot penny" charred during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2012.96.1

"Riot penny" charred during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre