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"Zip Coon" sheet music
cover (1834) |
A life-group exhibit at the U.S. National
Museum depicts a Kwakiutl hamatsa initiate and attendants (1896) |
Meta Warrick’s Scene on a
Slave Plantation diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s A Fugitive Slave diorama (1907) |
Meta
Warrick’s Organizing a Church in a Blacksmith Shop diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s Freedman's
First Cabin diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s The Beginnings
of Negro Education diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s Response to
the Call to Arms diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s On His Own
Farm diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s Contractors
and Builders diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s The Savings
Bank diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s An After Church
Scene diorama (1907) |
Old Time Cabin, photograph by
Frances Benjamin Johnston (c. 1900) |
Old African American Couple Eating
at the Table by Fireplace, Rural Virginia, photograph by Frances Benjamin
Johnston (c. 1900?) |
A [Hampton] Graduate's Home, photograph
by Frances Benjamin Johnston (c. 1898) |
A Graduate (Dining) at Home, photograph
by Frances Benjamin Johnston (c. 1900?) |
A photograph presented by W. E.
B. Du Bois at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle of a parlor room
in the home of an African American teacher in New Orleans, Louisiana
(c. 1900) |
Interior of the Negro Building
at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition (1907) |
"Dahomey Village in Parade
on the Midway," displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition in
Chicago (1893) |
Postcard depicting the Negro Building
at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition (1907) |
A portrait of the artist Meta
Vaux Warrick (1877–1968) from 1907, the year she created the Jamestown
Exposition tableaux (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s Landing of
First Twenty Slaves at Jamestown diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s Defending
Master's Home in Civil War diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s Improved
Home Life diorama (1907) |
Meta Warrick’s Commencement
Day diorama (1907) |