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SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 33m

Photograph of Lena Horne in profile https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.27.1.1

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

Address stamp from the studio of H.C. Anderson https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2007.1.14

Address stamp from the studio of H.C. Anderson

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 5h

Photographic print of an unidentified child https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.46.29.111

Photographic print of an unidentified child

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 6h

Photograph of a man https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.37.30.4

Photograph of a man

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

Albumen print of a man with a full hay cart https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2016.166.9

Albumen print of a man with a full hay cart

SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 23h

Photograph of the Cotten family https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.60.1

Photograph of the Cotten family

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

Female mannequin head from Mae's Millinery Shop https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2010.6.126

Female mannequin head from Mae's Millinery Shop

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

Pair of stars and stripes slippers attributed to Elizabeth Keckley https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2018.35.2.1ab

Pair of stars and stripes slippers attributed to Elizabeth Keckley

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

Photograph of integrated American Expeditionary Forces in France https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.63.78

Photograph of integrated American Expeditionary Forces in France

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

Flyer promoting the Citizenship Education Project https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2010.60.1.56.1

Flyer promoting the Citizenship Education Project

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

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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