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circa 1900s
Unknown
[Portrait of railroad workers]
One undated silver gelatin photgraph mounted on board. Image is of 17 railroad workers, including 14 African American men with tools, posing on tracks.
GLC09884
1918 ca.
Eighth Illinois Regiment Now in France [half tone printed reproduction]
Black troops active in Europe during WWI. Two slightly different printed versions of the same photograph, one trimmed, and the other printed with a slightly grainer half-tone screen.
GLC07593
1905
Underwood & Underwood
President Roosevelt and Booker Washington reviewing the 61 "Industry" floats .
Roosevelt and Washington are in the center of the picture, flanked by a sizable crowd. A lone black man stands guard in the foreground.
GLC06449.43
16 December 1918
unknown, fl. 1918;
Hog Killing Time in Dixie
One black and white photograph dated December 16, 1918. Image is of four Black people in front of a cooking area and two pigs hanging. On the reverse side is a note that reads, "Hog-Killing Time. In Dixie." Also listed is the date and location of...
GLC09724.08
April 1906
Booker T. Washington and distinguished guests, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
One stereocard entitled, "Booker T. Washington and distinguished guests, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama," dated April 1906. Reverse side of stereocard identifies the people photographed (from first row right to left, then second row left to right)...
GLC09726.02
1902
Little Negro Tea Pickers singing Pickaninny songs for President Roosevelt
A group of children with their backs to the camera, among whom a young girl in a white dress stands out, occupies the foreground. The children face President Roosevelt, who has several other men around him. The President and his associates stand...
GLC06449.32
circa 1915
Sweeney, J. D. (b. 1869)
[Photograph of house of John Brown's widow]
Photograph of the house of John Brown's widow in California. Photograph taken by T. Major Edgecomb. Docket on verso in green ink states "After the execution of John Brown, his widow and several of her young children came to Red Bluff. Citizens...
GLC06806.02.02
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