news print media on slavery and the reconstruction circus...

NEWS PRINT MEDIA ON SLAVERY AND THE RECONSTRUCTION

Il Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Dec. 4, 1869. "Negro Boys Playing Circus, Richmond, VA." Sketch of black children and adults.

12 Harpers's Weekly. May 28, 1859. "Ye Abolistionists in Council —Ye" Orator of Ye Day Denouncing Ye Union, May 1859. Sketch of whites and blacks in a large room. 14" x 16" ?

13 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. May 7, 1859. "The Wellington Rescuers". At bottom of paper is a sketch of the Oberlin Slave Kidnapping Case —Portraits of the Wellington Rescuers.

14 Harpers's Weekly. July 11, 1891. Four sketches "On The Roll of Honor—Drawn by R. F. Zogbaum". On verso of paper are sketches of three cavalry men two white and one black, James Settlers, of Troop E., Ninth Cavalry.

15 Harper's Weekly, Dec. 21, 1878. "Poor ignorant black Man" Wants to know, and you noble white gentleman do tell. Black Question: "Whom do you mean by the people?" White Answer: "How dare you wave the bloody shirt again?" Echo From a Naturalized Foreigner: "If Misther Lamar lived up our way, I would be afther showing him that I am one of the People!" Sketch of two white men and one black man with hat in hand.

16 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Feb. 26, 1881. "Washington, D. C. —Character Sketches at the National Capital During the Session of Congress" from sketches by Joseph Becker.

17 Harper's Weekly. Dec. 14, 1872. "The Coon Hunt — Telling Stories Round the Camp Fire.". and "Seeing the Circus Pass — A Virginia Sketch" Drawn by R. N. Brooks.

18 Harper's Weekly. June 27, 1874. "Exterior of the Church", "The Rev. James Holmes", "A Baptizing", and "Interior of the Church from the western wing." The First African Church, Richmond, VA — drawn by W. L. Sheppard.

19 Frank Leslie's Newspaper (In German), Dec. 17, 1864. A sketch of black soldiers with weapons.

110 Harper's Weekly. July 23, 1881. "Around a bulletin board, Richmond, VA —drawn by W. L. Sheppard.

Ill Jan. 5, 1884. "Virginia.- Method of removing snow from the streets of

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112 The Graphic. Jan. 7, 1882. "The East African Slave Trade." A British slave cruising yachts ordered on special service to the coast of Zanzibar.

113 Harper's Weekly. Jul. 14, 1866. "View of the Residence of Mrs. John Van Lew, on Church Hill, Richmond, VA. Elizabeth Van Lew was a staunch abolitionist and heavily involved in espionage for the Union Army. Another sketch of a "Negro in stocks – a scene in Florida".

114 Harper's Weekly. Jul. 12, 1902. "Down South". By F. Ray, Asheville, N.C.

115 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Oct. 20, 1866. "Plowing in South Carolina" from a sketch by Jas. E. Taylor.

116 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. April 25, 1868. "The Ku Klux Klan at work –The Assassination of the Hon. G. W. Ashburn, in Columbus, Georgia, on the 31St ULT."

117 Supplement to Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Nov. 28, 1874. "Dred Scott- photographed by Fitgibbon, of St. Louis". This portrait appeared in Vol. iv, June 27, 1857, and illustrated the most celebrated slave case ever tried. The case was concerning the freedom of a Negro who had gone to a free state and returned to a slave state. It was carried to the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Taney said the southern belief was that a Negro had no rights which a white man was bound to respect.

118 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Nov. 12, 1869. The Way in which Fred. Douglass fights wise of Virginia. "I have always been more distinguished for running than fighting." Fred. Douglass' letter to the Rochester Papers. The sketch is of Fred. Douglass with trunk on shoulder running.

119 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 20, 1877. "South Carolina-Members of the Republican Legislature securing lodgings in a second-class railroad car going to Columbia" Sketch by Harry Ogden.

120 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Mar. 4, 1865. "Seacoast operations against Charleston—Brilliant dash and capture of rebel rifle-pits and prisoners by the U.S. Troops on James Island, S. C. Feb. 9 –" Drawn by W. T. Crane in color.

121 Frank Leslie's..., Sept. 25, 1880. "N. Y. City.-Incidents of the water-melon trade in the metropolis." Sketched by Joseph Becker.

122 Frank Leslie's ..., May 21, 1864. "The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up vagrant Negroes". Sketched by V. H. Schell.

123 Frank Leslie's .. ., Oct. 20, 1877. (In German). Sketch of black men digging and laboring in Charleston, S. C.

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124 "Puck" n.d. "Back to the Old Home: A few notes about the Proposed Colonization of our Negros in Africa." Color sketches of stereotypical drawings of blacks in the following depictions: 1. Rev. Mr. Peters (formerly pastor of the First Colored Methodist Church, of Darkville, Miss.), 2. Introducing an American Game, 3. The Landing of the Colored Pilgrims, 4. Brilliant Idea of Uncle Jeff, of Richmond, VA. – He inaugurates a New Fashion in the Dark Continent, 5. Cut Out; or, the razor is mightier than the Assegai, 6. Central Africa as a field for Republican Election Tactics –Colored Floaters in Blocks of Five."

125 Harper's Weekly. Dec. 31, 1898. Photographs in color of "President McKinley's southern trip –scenes during his visits to Tuskegee and Atlanta."

126 Harper's Weekly. Oct. 21, 1876. "Of Course He Wants To Vote The Democratic Ticket!" Democratic "Reformer" "You're as free as air, ain't you? Say you are, or I'll blow yer black head off!" Sketch by B. Frost. Two white men both holding guns at a scared black man who wants to vote.

127 Frank's Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Sept. 14, 1872. "Too Thin, Massa Grant." U.S.G. (as a manipulator of Ku-Klux figures)—"Look here, Sambo; if you don't vote for Grant, these Ku-Klux fellows will put you back into slavery." Sambo—"Massa, it am no use to get up dem horrid figgers. Sambo knows dat he's free, and dat neider yu nor any oder man can make him a slave again. I vote for Greeley, dat good man who helped make me free."

128 Frank's Leslie's... May 14, 1881. "Aesthetic culture in the south. –The Peripathetic Chromo-dealer. Sketched by Moser.

129 Frank's Leslie's ... Feb. 2, 1889. "Africa.—The Slave-Trade of the East Coast—view of the island and town of Zanzibar."

130 Frank's Leslie's ... ? 1862. "Prince," The Negro pilot of the Ottawa, up the St. Mary's River" Sketched by Mr. Crane.

131 Frank's Leslie's ... June 19, 1880. "Illinois.—Opening of the Presidential Campaign incidents of the National Republican Convention at Chicago. Sketches by W. Parker Bodfish.

132 Harper's Weekly, Mar. 16, 1867. "The Georgetown Election – The Negro at the Ballot Box." Sketched by Th. Nast.

133 Harper's Weekly, July 2, 1864. "The Escaped Slave by T. B. Bishop." "The Escaped Slave in the Union Army" and "Gen'l. Sherman's Campaign-General Williams's division of Hooker's Corps driving the rebels through the woods" sketched by Theodore R. Davis. •

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134 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Feb. 23, 1867. "The Desolate Home -a picture of the suffering at the south." •

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135 Frank Leslie's ..., Oct. 9, 1858. "Group of African Negroes on Board the Niagara." Sketched by correspondent. "Shipping the recaptured Africans on board he U.S. Steam Frigate Niagara, at Charleston, S.C."

136 Harper's Weekly April 15, 1871. Banty Tim. "That Nigger-that Tim-was a crawlin to me." Remarks of Sergeant Tilmon Joy to the white man's committee of spunky point, Illinois.

137 Frank Leslie's ..., April 20, 1872. "Virginia.-The colored population of Richmond celebrating the anniversary of the adoption of the fifteen amendment."

138 The Illustrated London News, Feb. 16, 1861. "Dealers inspecting a Negro at a slave auction in Virginia.

139 The Civil War in the U.S., "Presentation of colors to the 20th U.S. Colored Infantry, Colonel Bertram, In N.Y. city, March 5, 1864. In color. Verso of paper shows a sketch of "Confederate attack on Gen. Lee's Wagon Train at Mansfield, LA., April 8, 1864. sketched by C. E. F. Bonwill. - (2 drawings in color).

140 Harper's Weekly May 10, 1873. "Negroes hiding in the swamps of Louisiana". The Louisiana Murders. The official report of Col. Wm. Wright and T. W. De Klyne, of Gen. Longstreet's staff, who were sent to Grant Parish, Louisiana, to investigate the late massacre of colored people there, shows that the first reports of the atrocity were not exaggerated.

141 The Graphic, Nov. 21, 1874. "Sir Samuel Baker's Anti-Slavery Expedition" from Ismailia, by Sir Samuel Baker. Four sketches: 1. The Slave hunters' attack on Fatiko, 2. The Camel transport of steamers and machinery, 3. Liberation of the slaves after the capture of the slave boats, 4. A hippopotamus attacks, the boats during the night.

142 Mid-Week Pictorial, May 22, 1919. "Total nearly one million square miles of Territory" Map showing colonies in Africa taken from Germany, Caravan passing through a palm forest, Type of native village in the Cameroons, the former German Colony on East African Coast.

143 Harper's Weekly, Jan 18, 1879. "The color line still exists—in this case."

144 Harper's Weekly, April 24, 1875. "These Few Precepts in thy Memory,"

145 Harper's Weekly, June 9, 1866. -Gen. Steedman and Fullerton conferring with the Freedmen in their church at Trent River settlement. Sketched by T. R. Davis. Sketch


of a Negro Huts at Trent River settlement, School house and chapel at Trent river settlement.

146 Harper's Weekly, Nov. 21. 1868. "The Late Rev. B. F. Randolph, of South Carolina. - Assassinated Oct.17, 1868. Photographed by S. A. Cooley. Rev. B. F. Randolph, a Methodist clergyman of S.C. and a Senator of the state, who, on the 17 `11 of last month, fell a victim to assassination for his political opinions. The Rev. Randolph was black.

147 Frank Leslie's ... , Sept. 11, 1869. "A watermelon feast in Richmond, VA. sketched by Wm. H. Sheppard. Five black boys eating watermelon on the street.

148 Harper's Weekly, Nov. 23, 1861. "Map of S.C., showing the proportion of slaves in each county."

149 Harper's Weekly, Sept. 13, 1873. "Destruction of a slave Dhow on the coast of Zanzibar."

150 Harper's Weekly, Feb. 8, 1868. "Scene on a southern plantation." Sketched by A. W. Thompson.

151 Harper's Weekly, May 24, 1879. "The Zulu War—Fort Ekowe." Sketched by T. Pearson, of Verulam, Natal.

152 Harper's Weekly, May 12, 1866. "Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia by the colored people, in Washington, April 19, 1866."

153 Frank Leslie's ..., Oct. 22, 1887. "Tennessee.—An Humble tribute to the wife of President Cleveland—scene near Chattanooga, on the line of the Western and Atlantic Railway." Sketch by Joseph Becker.

154 Frank Leslie's ..., Dec. 13, 1873. "Preparing for War.—Sketches about the Navy Yards." Sketched by J. Becker. -Portsmouth, VA.—Negroes recruits for the naval service marching to the Navy yard."

155 The New-York Illustrated News, July 15, 1861. "Murder of Mr. Grimshaw, Mr. Town, and an overseer by the fugitive Negro "Tom", in Big Cypress Swamp, Plaquimine Parish, Louisiana. Desperate conduct and escape of the murderer." The sketch is in color/hand color.

156 Frank Leslie's ..., Aug. 20, 1864. "The War in Virginia—contrabands coming in to the Union Camp." Sketched by Edwen Forbes - hand color.

157 "Negro boys playing marbles - A street scene in Richmond, VA". Hand color • and drawn by W. L. Sheppard., 1869.

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• Authorities of the Suspected Slaver Falmouth, in New York Bay. 158 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper., April 5, 1856. "Arrest by the U.S.

159 The Graphic, Mar 15, 1873. "The Slavery Question in Eastern Africa – Coast Dance of Natives at Mquadia, Zanzibar" and The Slavery Question in Eastern Africa –Capture of a Hippopotamus on the Pungany River, Zanzibar."

160 The Illustrated London News, Nov. 15, 1858. "The Coloured Opera Troupe at the Oxford Street Gallery."

161 Frank Leslie's ... (In German). 1881. "Virginia.—Sketch of Negroes in Yorktown, VA."

162 Frank Leslie's ..., May 16, 1868. "A Frightful Scene Near Omega Landing, Mississippi—Negro Murderers Burned at the stake by a mob of their own race."

163 Frank Leslie's ..., Dec. 25, 1886. "The art of palmistry in the kitchen of a Virginia Hostelry." Fortune-teller to hotel cook—"Your future will be a brilliant one. You will some day marry a rich and handsome gentleman." Drawn by Joseph Becker.

164 Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. n.d., "Portraits of African Slaves."

• 165 The Graphic, N.Y., Jan. 9, 1880. "The Emancipation Group recently erected in Park Square, Boston" from a photograph by Warren.

166 Frank Leslie's ..., Oct. 7, 1871. "N.C.—The Ku-Klux Klan"—Plan of the contemplated murder of John Campbell, on August 10 th, 1871, in Moore County.

167 L'illustration, Journal Universel. 1843. Sketches of Negroes slaves and chains.

168 The Graphic, May 3, 1873. "Slave-Dealers and Slaves, --A street scene in Zanzibar". Hand color.

169 Harper's Weekly, May 9, 1874. "Shad-Fishing in the James River, opposite Richmond" Sketched by W. L. Sheppard. Hand color.

170 Harper's Weekly, Dec. 19, 1868. "Two members of the Ku-Klux Klan in their disguises.

171 Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War. n.d., "The War in Tennessee—Confederate Massacre of Federal troops after the surrender at Fort Pillow,

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172 Harper's Weekly, Nov. 22, 1884. "One of the First-Fruits of the Victory". President-elect Cleveland. "Shake heartily, boys!"

173 Frank Leslie's ..., Sept. 19, 1874. "The War of Races". The conflict in Tennessee—The regulators shooting blacks near Trenton, in Gibson County. Sketched by W. Webb Metz.

174 The New-York Illustrated News., Oct. 7, 1861. "Scene at Newport News, Virginia. Negroes bringing in produce to sell to the soldiers. Sketched by A. Waud, Esq.

175 Harper's Weekly, 11 20, 1869. "Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner". Sketched in color by Th. Nast.

176 Harper's Weekly, Feb. 21, 1880. "A Negro Funeral in Virginia.—Drawn by A. B. Frost.

177 Harper's Weekly, Mar. 7, 1863. "Paying off the teamsters in the army of the Potomac." Sketched by A. R. Waud.

178 "Virginia.—A group of young Negroes returning from work—Street scene in Richmond. Sept. 30, 1871.

179 Harper's Weekly (1864). Emancipated Slaves White and Colored. 1/3/1864.

180 Harper's Weekly (1864). Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou of the Slaves Confederate President Jefferson Davis from his Mississippi Plantation circa 1864.

181 General Sherman's Rear-Guard. (circa 1864). Published in newspaper and it is a black and white sketch from the collection of Therbia and Marva Parker.

182 Photograph (not an original) of U.S. Negro Troops (circa 1864). Collection of Marva and Therbia Parker.

*8- rare maps of Africa dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS: 1 painting on cloth by Mocha. Painting is Bagamoyo, Africa and it depicts slaves being sold, chained, beaten and running away. n.d.

1 cloth of slaves in a cotton field down south picking cotton. The fabric is damaged and has holes. n.d.

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• Listen to the Drumbeat Collection of Black artifacts sent to the United States Slavery Museum, Fredericksburg, VA

on October 13, 2004

Item No. Description

Estimated Value

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1. Leg Slave Shackle #77 $380.00 2. Wrist Slave Shackle #416 $240.00 3. Leg Slave Shackle $380.00 4. Wrist Slave Shackle #202 $240.00 5. Slave Collar (Circa 1856-Rare) #121 $6,500.00 6. Slave Tag - Moss Bluff (Circa 1832) $300.00 7. Slave Tag - Chelby Hall Plantation, N.C. $600.00

(Circa 1786) 8. W.W. Wilber Slave Seller (Circa 1806) $400.00 9. Plantation Police Badge (Circa 1858) $265.00 10. Slave Tag - Greenfield Plantation, S.C. (Circa $180.00

1817) 11. Handwritten Bill of Sale for Negro girl and

child (10/17/1850)$900.00

12. Washington, D.C. Slave Bill of Sale (on page $850.00 2) (04/20/1840)

13. 1804 Charleston Courier Newspaper with 923 negroes for sale.

$375.00

14. 1806 Charleston Courier newspaper with $490.00 1,663 negroes for sale

15. Vol . 1 copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) by $300.00 Harriet Beecher Stowe

16. Public Auction Poster - Forty Negroes $800.00 (11/13/1829 - Rare)

17. Caution Colored People of Boston Poster $800.00 (Circa 1851 - Rare)

18. Harper's Weekly - Emancipated Slaves White and Colored (1/3/1864)

$1,200.00

19. Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou of the Slaves of $600.00 President Davis from his MS Plantation (Circa 1864)

20. General Sherman's Rear-Guard (Circa 1864) $275.00 21. U.S. Negro Troops Picture (Circa 1864) $125.00'


• MR. AND MRS. THOMAS LEWIS ARTIFACTS OF BLACK FAMILIES: SLAVERY AND POST-SLAVERY

DECEMBER 14, 2004

Item # Description BF-00l Spinning wheel with yard (wooden) BF-002 Iron board (wooden) BF-003 Shovel with wooden handle BF-004 Shot gun BF-005 Scale with long metal hook "American Family Scale" 60

lbs. (2 pieces) BF-006 Hot curler iron stove with curlers and comb (kerosene was

used to heat curling tools) BF-007 Wooden fire place starter with brass end BF-008 Blow torch (iron with wooden handle and faucet to adjust

flame) BF-009 Handmade 3-piece tray set made in Haiti (numbered 3297) BF-010 Wooden carving of African woman with pottery on head BF-011 Stone carving of African man BF-012 Old bottle (white base with small opening — dark blue) BF-013 Hershey's Kisses Tin can (1980 copyright) BF-014 Hot curler iron stove with curlers and comb (2 pieces)

1111BF-015 BF-016

Two horse shoes (one shoe has nail) Four-piece serving utensils (metal spoon — large, knife & fork, etc.)

BF-017 Metal hog scraper with wooden handle BF-018 Leathercase with harmonica "Atta Boy" (metal and wood —

1894 Anvers.; 1873; Paris 1900 — made in Germany) BF-019 Iron — (#5 on iron and made of strong iron) BF-020 Iron — (Size 1 — The A. C. Williams Company, Ravenna,

Ohio — 2 screws on top) BF-021 Trivet — black made of iron (made in Japan) BF-022 Canteen (U.S. S.M. Company metal) BF-023 Metal Ice crusher BF-024 Metal gripping tool (two wooden handles) BF-025 Meat grinder "Larkin" (iron with wooden handle)


MR. AND MRS THOMAS LEWIS ARTIFACTS OF BLACK FAMILIES: SLAVERY AND POST —SLAVERY

OCTOBER 4. 2005

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Description Typewriter "Underwood" Lamp rose colored, oil lamp shape (electric) Hand press Shoemaker stand Tin cake box with pine comb design Domino brown sugar tin Prince Albert tobacco tin Haeger pottery with alphabets CR pottery (bowl with stripes) Brass pieces (2 goblets and bowl with legs) Simpson, Hall, Miller and Co silver cup with floral engraving (quadruple plate) Daniel Boone pioneer jug (1972) Daisy model air rifle Egg beater (double) with green handle Egg beater (double) with red handle Old graters Wash bowl with floral inlay Ceramic bowls (fruit design and southwest cactus design) Silver plate bowl (Avon, made in Italy) Amber colored bottle and container Kitchen utensils (blue handle) Potato masher with red handle Sealed beam automobile headlight (GE) Clock (Poirot and Germain) Saint Crolx, Paris Wooden bowl (leaf shape) Nail puller Machete Drill for planting seeds Ceramic bowls (one with flower vase/pitcher) Kraftone record player (electric) red case Hyde Park record player (electric) model 347 brown case Duosonic record player (electric) simulated alligator skin case State license plates (VA, NJ, KY, NY, PA, MD, OH, and CA) dates from 1950 through 2003 (24 total plates) Ohio license plate 91-P850GH 1991 Ohio license plate SRA-714 California license plate 308-CKX 1980 California license plate 097-KOV


MR. AND MRS THOMAS LEWIS ARTIFACTS OF BLACK FAMILIES: SLAVERY AND POST —SLAVERY

OCTOBER 4. 2005

Item # Description BF-063 California license plate WNX-071 1975 BF-064 New Jersey license plate YFO-298 (front and rear) BF-065 Kentucky license plate LFC-458 1985 BF-066 Maryland license plate GHZ-535 1980 (front and rear) BF-067 Pennsylvania license plate 97341-CF 1987 BF-068 New York license plate 215-WTA (front and rear) BF-069 New York license plate RCL-51 BF-070 Virginia license plate 52-961 1950 (rusty) BF-071 Virginia license plate YWV-7137 2001 (front and rear) BF-072 Virginia license plate ODW-491 2002 (front and rear) BF-073 Virginia license plate YKU-3614 2002 (front and rear) BF-074 Virginia license plate ZKL-3831 2003 (front and rear) BF-075 Virginia license plate (bicentennial) 195-112 1987

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COLLECTION OF STEREOTYPICAL MEMORABILIA

H1 Two photographs of Minstrels in black face. 8 % x 11 approx. size in Black & White. Including a Brooklyn Line Minstrels. Elyria Opera House, March 4, 1893.

112 My Little Coon Book by Mary A. Post. E. P. Dudtton & Co., N.Y.,

H3 The Strange Tale of Ten Little Nigger Boys. By The Pilgrims. M. A. Donohue, Chicago.

114 At An Ole Virginia Wedding by Maurice J. Steinberg. N.Y.: T. B. Hrms, 1900. 14" x 10 1/2" Shows a full-color cover of a bride and groom and other background — African-American couples cakewalking in high spirits. In background we see fiddle and banjo players. In the foreground, a large watermelon.

115 The Pickaninny's Parade. Words by Sam Ehrlich. Music by Nat Osborne. The cover shows Van & Schenck surrounded by drawings of blacks picking cotton, a mammy-figure and young girl, and sunflowers.

116 Stay in Your Own Back Yard. Pickaninny Ballad. Music by Lyn Udall and Lyric by Karl Kenneth. Drawing on cover is Buckwheat and his mother with rag on head.

117 The Bugaboo Man. Music by Jenicol and Words by R. A. Barnet. Sketch is of a white woman correcting a pickaninny.

118 Check and Double Check with Amos and Andy. Sketch of Amos and Andy.

H9 Nobody by Bert William. Words by Alex Rogers and Music by Bert A. Williams. "John Rucker in The Black Patti's Troubadours".

H10 A Little Coon's Prayer. Words by De Burgh D'arcy and Music by Barbara Hope.

H11 Ole South: A Plantation Patrol. By J. S. Zamecnik. Sketch of blacks depicted negatively.

H12 Drawing with string. "The Gobbleun's Git Yo Ef Yo Dorn Play Fair" Black child with bright red ribbons in her hair.

1113 Black Caricatures Group of colorful fruit wrappers, candy boxes, matchbox, etc. displaying black faces with exaggerated or grotesque features.

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H14 Up in the Cocoanut Tree. "King Kaboom in a cocoanut tree grew lonesome day by day. He longed for a mate to share his fate." By Theo F. Morse and Ed Madden 1903.

1115 A Rattling Coon Song, "If Time was Money I'd Be A Millionaire". Words by Felix F. Feist. Music by Ted S. Barron. A lazy coon a hangin round heard Parson Jenkins say, "Dattime was money. 1902.

H16 If the Man in the Moon were a Coon by Fred Fischer. 1905. Racist cover shows the Nichols Sisters in blackface and eating watermelon as an elderly black man robs the chicken coop. "Say, Jasper, 'taint no use talking even though you talk from now till noon, Don't try to tell me, Mister Know-it-all, a coon is up in the moon; Why! A nigger, with his brown figure, cert'n'y darkens up the silv'ry moon; Wake up! You're dreaming with your eyes a-glare, You great big foolish coon . . ."

1117 "Resignation." Post Card of black girl with large umbrella in dialect. U.S. Postage stamp is one sent.

H18 Photograph of F. F. Gosden and C. J. Correll in black face as the characters Amos *ri Andy.

1119 Photograph of the Cotton Queen Cast and Peruna. 1935. Two men in black face.

H2O Two ads from Worcester Theatre, June 18, 1860 "The French Spy!" and Boston Theatre, Feb. 29, 1856 "Zafari: The Bohemian". Also, a broadside of Longwood Plantation's Pure Syrup Cane, Baton Rouge, LA. Established 1827. Sketch of black woman with red cloth on head. H21 Two Stereotypical illustrations with racist stories in dialect. "Coon Jokes", 1920? Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook Co., nd 2Opp. "I think dat am Santa Claus!" a booklet produced in England by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd.

H 22 Original Minstrels broadside. The Original Eight Annual D.H.S. Minstrels "The Biggest and the Best" Bryan Hi Auditorium, Bryan, Texas [ca. 1930s] Printed in blue ink. AT the center is an 8" x 7" panel with six drawings of blackface characters in various situations.

H23 Dixie "I wish I was in Dixie" words and music by Dan Emmett. Calumet Music Co., 823 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, ILL. Sketch of four black men with aggregated faces.

H24 Do Re Mi or the music lesson Thomas Wilkes presents the Duncan Sisters in "Topsy and Eva" 1923 by Irving Berlin, Inc. New York. Sketch of stereotypical black pickicninny. •

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1125 Short'nin' bread. Song for voice and piano by Jacques Wolfe., 1928 by Harold Flammer, Inc.

1126 Cake Walk Brand Cove Oysters [trade card]. New Orleans, Louisiana. Walls & Co. Ltd, nd. [ca. 1890]. Packed by Barataria Canning Co., Biloxi, Mississippi. The left side of the card shows an oyster on the half-shell, display-type lettering, etc. To the right is a well —drawn black couple in fine dress, he is with a walking stick, she with a handerchief, in the midst of a cake-walk stride, surrounded by the legend: "Dem Cake Walk Oysters am Good and `Licious." Box of matches in German with stereotypical black face with red full lips.

H27 Rosario Circo. Carlentini, Sicilia. "Moro". Importe' D'ttalie. Sketch is of Black man with a crown on head and full lips. (16 drawings with different sketches) and

1128 The Congo for voice and piano. Poem by Vachel Lindsay. Music by Jacques Wolfe. 1948 by Carl Fischer, Inc., N. Y. The sketch on cover is an black man looking at three black dancers jumping around an open fire.

H29 Mandy. Negro love song by J. B. Mullen composer of a darktown lullabye. 1899. The sketch on cover is a black man and woman kissing dressed in large stripes, etc.

H30 Ain't Dat A Shame. Sung with great success by Billy Clark. Words by John Queen and Music by Walter Wilson. 1901. N.Y. Sketch on cover is white man in black face and a sketch of a old black man in hat.

1131 Go Way Back and Sit Down. Words by Elmer Bowman. Music by Al Johns. NY & Chicago: F. A. Mills, 1901. First edition. Pictorial cover shows a restaurant of black patrons with grotesque features, including Sam Jones who points a man toward the rear. "Old Sam Jones runs and owns a Café on easy street, But a coon hangs 'round that he calls down that will never ever treat. He likes his gin... Every body heard Sam shout: `Go way back, and sit down, coons in your class are easy found...."

H32 Two Fantasies for Duo-Pianists. By June Weybright. The Willis Music Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; 1936. The cover has three black children dancing . . . .

1133 Bill Bailey, Won't You Please ----Come Home? Words and music by Hughie Cannon. Cover has the Mozart Comedy Four at bottom and top has two black men (one crying and the other smiling).

H34 On the Levee by June Waldo. The Willis Music Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 1936. Cover has black people with large red lips relaxing. This music was for students to play on the piano — John Thompson's Students Series.

H35 Banjo-Pickaninnies by T. Robin Maclachlan. Harold Flammer, inc. • N.Y.,1928. On cover there are two black boys dancing and playing the banjo.

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1136 Cotton Fluff by Olive Smith. Clayton F. Summy Co., Chicago & N.Y. 1936. On cover is a sketch of a black child with large white eyes, nose and mouth holding cotton balls.

1137 Darktown is Out To-night by Dunbar & Marion. Published by M. Witmark & sons., N.Y. & Chicago 1898. Words and Music by Will Marion. On cover are a black man and black woman dressed with gown and tux doing the cake walk.

H38 Piccaninny Serenade with words. By Maxwell Eckstein. The Boston Music Co., 1936. On cover there is a black woman holding a black baby. Cotton and the cotton plant are also drawn.

1139 Whistling Rufus or The One Man BAnd by Kerry Mills. 1899, N.Y., On the cover is a black man with full white lips dressed in a top hat, etc. playing a guitar. In background there are black couples dressed up marching.

H40 Liz. Lyric by Jean Lenox. Music by Harry 0. Sutton. Jos. W. Stern & Co, 1905. On the cover is a white man (Ceo H. Primros) in black face surrounded by cotton.

•H42 Possum: The Latest Craze. Words by G. A. Scofield Music by J. B. Cohen. Pease Piano Co., N.Y., 1909. Cover vignettes: a live possum in front of the White House and an eager black figure reaching for a platter of fried possum. "Sence Bill Tafts cum to Washington, De Possum's all de rage. It's serv'd in all de Restarants, An all do bes' Cafays. . . . Da never was a minit, Any other food was in it, For de juicy, Juicy Possum takes de prize."

H43 Happy Hannah (Cake Walk) by Theo. Havemeyer. McKinley Music Co., 1898. NY & Chicago. The cover shows a dancing mammy and three black men in bowties and tails, all with exaggerated features .

H44 Cox, Charles A., illustrator. Up to Date...Everybody's Paper. Broadside nd. Full-color cartoon illustration shows a stereotypical brown native near the top of a palm tree, reading a copy of "Up to Date." His features are grotesque. A high silk hat is jammed upside down on his head. He wears a bone through his ear and a ring through his lower lip. Around his ankle is a formal shirt cuff with cuff-link.

H45 The Bullfrog and the Coon by Jos. S. Nthan & Felix E. Feist. 1906. Broadside. "While doves were softly cooing, a coon once went a wooing . . . The moon looked on with envy . . On cover is a photo of Jeanette Buckley and at the top is a black youth • surrounded with bullfrogs.

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• H46 Four Little Sugar Plums: Schottische & Barn Dance by Lawrence B. O'Connor. 1908. Broadside. Daly Music pub., Boston, Mass. On cover are black children with exaggerated eyes and mouths.

H47 C. H. Smith's Boston Uncle Tom's Cabin Company (7 individual 4x5 cards with illustrations of scenes from play).

H48 Lime Kiln Club. 1886. Brother Gardner in the Chair, "Dis Club hab ebery reason to be proud of de Stove Committee. We has tried all do other stove polishes." The broadside cover has illustrations of black men holding a meeting, etc.

1149 Souvenir Folder containing 22 typical scenes of the Sunny South. On cover of folder is a black baby sitting in a basket of cotton.

1150 Harper's Weekly, Jul. 11, 1868. "Would you marry your daughter to a nigger?" Rev. Dr. Chase (to the bride). "Do you promise to love, honor, and obey..?" The Bridge. "Don't I?"

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Listen to the Drumbeat Collection of Black artifacts sent to the United States Slavery Museum, Fredericksburg, VA

on October 26, 2004

Item No. Description

Estimated Value

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5\ Mammy Kitchen plastic memo pad Circa 1940

$110.00

1,._ 23. Painted Chalk ware hanging potholders (boy and girl) Circa 1940

$110.00

„..--- 24. Pair of wooden shakers - Rastus & Lisa Circa 1940

$55.00

I-- 25. Aunt Jemima/Uncle Moses Salt & Pepper shakers (table size)

$100.00

/ - 26. Aunt Jemima/Uncle Moses Salt & Pepper shakers ("dainty")

$75.00

, 27. Aunt Jemima syrup pitcher $120.00 28. Aunt Jemima tin canister $90.00 29.

).-/Aunt Jemima plastic rag doll family (Aunt Jemima, Uncle Moses, Diana & Wade) Circa 1949 1-)-

$425.00

...- 30. Framed Aunt Jemima Advertisement Circa 1951

$160.00

,,- 31. Framed Aunt Jemima Advertisement Circa 1948

$165.00

/32. Framed Aunt Jemima Advertisement Circa 1920

$185.00

V33. Aunt Jemima paper placemat $70.00 334. Aunt Jemima recipe booklet Circa 1950 $75.00 v-35. Luzianne Mammy salt & pepper set (green) $260.00 v36. Luzianne coffee and chicory lib. tin (red) $175.00 , - 37. Luzianne coffee and chicory lib. tin (white) $175.00

38. Luzianne coffee and chicory 31b. tin w/ handle (red)

$260.00

-39. Blackamoor lamp $185.00 40. Fun-to-wash washing powder box

Circa 1930$110.00

-- 41. Gold Dust washing container (small) $100.00 42.

vGold Dust washing powder container (21b. 4oz. - Giant size)

$145.00

/,43-: Southern Biscuit Co. Tin - Richmond, VA Circa 1926

$145.00

,_,--44. Diaper Dan Weather Forecaster & Thermometer Circa 1949

$90.00


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V 45. Valentine Couple salt & pepper shaker set (1950-1960)

$190.00

t.----- 46. Stove Top salt & pepper set (McCoy 1950) $210.00 ,-, 47. Ceramic box salt & pepper set - dressed in

green and yellow holding a slice of .2 .. z•_.1 watermelon Circa 1950

$125.00

348. Wall hanging potholder - boy & girl sharing a slice of watermelon Circa 1940

$90.00

/7"49. "Reckon Ah Needs" - wooden grocery reminder

$75.00

''-50. Ceramic soap/scouring pad holder Circa 1940 $165.00 p-51. 2 cast iron skillet shaped ashtrays Circa 1950 $45.00

L.----52. Lucky Joe Bank - Joe Lewis Nash's prepared

mustard Circa 1938$95.00

Mammy cast iron bank $240.00 v_54. Wooden display case Mason's Challenge

Blacking$350.00

1 5- 5. "Next" Outhouse figurine 1940-1950 $70.00 t.,--5fr. "One Moment Please" Outhouse figurine

1940-1950$70.00

,,----57. "One Moment Please" Outhouse figurine 1940-1950

$70.00

‘ ,5•8. "You think you've been through the ringer?" Ashtray (chipped) 1940

$45.00

•_-59. "Zulu-Lulu" swizzle sticks $85.00 30. Ceramic Mammy planter $240.00 361. "Black man" clay pipe Pre 1930 $300.00 r/" Ceramic cigarette holder and ashtray $85.00

.--.63. McCoy ceramic cookie jar (white) $350.00 64. McCoy ceramic cookie jar (dark blue) $350.00

• 65. McCoy ceramic cookie jar (light blue) $350.00 366. McCoy ceramic cookie jar (gold) $350.00

67. McCoy ceramic cookie jar (dark gray) $350.00 ,,• -68. Chef & Mammy 3 in. salt & pepper shaker set $100.00 (,69. "Little Black Sambo" wind up clock $700.00

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"Smoking Tobacco" wind up clock - made by John Weisert Tobacco Co., St. Louis, MO

$600.00

„,,--7-1".- "Holding apple and banana" bisque nodder bank

$115.00

/72. "Orange Florida" bisque nodder bank $115.00 V 73. Mammy wooden broom $100.00

74. Mammy salt shaker $130.00 3-75. Washington, D.C. souvenir salt & pepper set $175.00

i...76. Ceramic creamer $175.00 / - 1/77. "Tea Kettle" clown salt & pepper set $110.00


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i.-78. Clown ashtray $110.00 '---79. Clown decanter with 4 cups ( 21c4i)4- $140.00

,-- - 80. Benne Bits tin (red) $90.00 81. Benne Wafers (green) $90.00

Y82. Ceramic children figurines (2-) Circa 1940 $320.00 (a ") v-81. "Male Chef' ceramic cookie jar 1930-1950 $400.00 384. "Ashes, Matches, Cigarettes" ceramic

cigarette holder$75.00

v 85. "Child on Potty" ceramic figurine $80.00 386. Cast iron ashtray w/ boy eating watermelon $130.00

V87. Mammy metal spoon rest $130.00 v-88. Ceramic cigarette/match holder and ashtray

1940-1950 o-4-- b...-64,r,$60.00 ci,, r.,,,,,,je.4

v---89. Darkie toothpaste - 1 tube - 1970 $140.00 390. Darlie toothpaste - 1 tube - 1980 $75.00 3 91. Darkie toothpaste "fan" $65.00

92. Uncle Ben's rice 40th Anniversary tins (4 included)

$150.00

93. Uncle Ben's Rice "1992 Olympic Winter Games" tins (2 included - blue)

$130.00 '.1

v 94. Uncle Ben's Rice "1992 Olympic Summer

Games" tin$65.00

95. 3

Uncle Ben's Rice container - replica of 1947 packaging

$65.00


• SLAVE ARTIFACTS

J1 Wooden Carvings (Pair). Ivory Coast and carved by Bambara Tribe.

J2 Belly Harps (2) Liberia, West Africa. (20 years old). One harp is made of wire the other is made with palm tree fiber.

J3 Blanket. Liberia, West Africa. 40 years old. Country Cloth.

J4 Maps. (7): Mittel and Nord Africa. 1866. Partially in color. Afrique partially in color Golfo Di Guinea. Color Carta dell Africa 1832. Black and White Afrique pas les Robert de Vaugondy. 1760. Color

J5 Slave Coins (2). 1846 coin is the property of Dr. Gerald Foster who received it from his 81 year old mother who was reared in Louisa County, VA. She in tern received it as a family memento from her father, Alexander Ellis Chisholm who was born in 1900 and died in 1988. Mr. Chisholm received the coin from his father, Elijah Chisholm who was born a slave. The second coin was donated to the Museum by Mr. Robert Hein of Fredericksburg, VA. He found the coin on local property. Circa 1800.

It was a fairly common practice for slave masters to give low value coins to slaves as a reward for acting in ways consistent with their subservient role.

J6 Finger Piano. Liberia, West Africa. 20 years old.

J7 Saa Saa. Liberia, West Africa. Usually played by women. Made of seed pods. 20 years old.

J8 African shoes and garments. Liberia, West Africa.

J9. Chair. Built by slaves in the 19 th century. Chesterfield, VA

J10 Fabrics. Variety of cloths from regions in Africa.

J11 Leg Slave Shackles (6)

J12 Wrist Slave Shackles (2)

J13 Slave Collar (circa 1856)


• J14 Slave torture Devices (replicas). (4)

J15 Slave Tags.(3) 1856, 1786, 1817. Worn by slaves to identify craft.

J16 Plantation Police Badge. Circa 1856.

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Items in this list may be duplicative of items appearing in other inventories

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Box 1

Item Quantity Name/Description of Item 1. 1 Poetry from Heart CD 2. 1 Framed “Looking Back and Moving Forward” Placard 3. 2 Musical Instrument (wooden bowl with strings) 4. 1 Musical Instrument (big wood bowl with flat front with strings) 5. 1 Double-side drum (small) 6. 1 Carachi (sp?) with black beads and strings 7. 1 Musical Instrument (wood cylinder on string with stick)

Box 2 (Content photographed on 8/11/2005)

1. 3 Dashiki 2. 2 African Robe and Matching Pants

Box 3

1. 1 Framed Wanted Posting (1851) Runaway Slaves 2. 1 Framed Poster (1820) Auction Slaves 3. 1 Framed Print “Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou” 4. 1 Book: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood 5. 1 Antique Telephone (Black) 6. 6 U.S. National Slavery Museum Tags

Box 4 (Content photographed on 8/11/2005)

1. 1 Brown leather shoes/sandal with embroidery 2. 1 White leather 3. 6 Multi-color/Ethnic cloth/wraps 4. 1 Baton with hair at end (small 5. 1 Framed Picture (B&W) Black Soldiers of Company E4th U.S. Colored Infantry 6. 1 Wool/Multi-color Coat 7. 1 Set of Beads (Orange & Brown) 8. 1 Blue & Gold Tribal Robe 9. 1 Green & White African Dress 10. 1 Tribal/African Pant Suit 11. 1 Cap (White & Gold Laid)



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Box 5

1. 1 Antique Steel Handcuffs 2. 2 Book: A Slave No More 3. 1 Book: A Stranger and A Sojourner 4. 1 Book: Negro Slavery in Arkansas 5. 1 Book: Bearing Witness 6. Multiple 45 rpm records 7. 1 Album “Woody Herman at Carnigie Hall

Box 6 1. 37 Various Albums





Box 11 1. 4 Multi-color/Ethnic Cloth 2. 14 Tins 3. 1 Box of Washing Powder 4. 1 Bronze baby rattle (doughnut-shaped)

Box 12



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1 1 Cake Tin 2. 1 Steel Cloth 3. 1 Daniel Boone Whiskey Jug 4. 1 Ceramic vase (White) 5. 1 White Ceramic Wash Bowl (Large)

Box 13

1 1 Antique Rifle 2. 2 Ceramic Wash Bowl (Small) 3. 1 Silver cup (Small) 4. 1 Antique Hand Tool 5. 1 Record Player (Portable)

Box 14

1. 6 Mammy Head Cookie Jar (Navy, Black, Turquoise, Pale Yellow w/ Blue, Tan, Vanilla) 2. 1 Mammy Piggy Bank

Box 15

1 1 Box of Wild Boar teeth 2. 5 Tribal Robes 3. 11 Multi-color textiles

Box 16 (Photographed on 7/6/2005)

1 1 Ceramic Planter 2. 2 Set of Kitchen Utensils 3. 2 Metal Graters 4. 1 Metal/Brass Lamp 5. 1 Brass Spittoon 6. 1 Wooden Pattern/the Dish 7. 1 Antique Headlight (car) 8. 1 Hand Mixer 9. 1 Glass Jar 10. 3 Ceramic/Decorative Bowl 11. 2 Tins (Round) 12. 21 Old License Plates 13. 2 Brass Goblets



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Box 17

1. 2 Record Player (Portable) 2. 1 UPS Shipping Box (content: Korean Hymnal, videotape, three photographs, 1 small New Testament, 1 book: Meet General Grant)

Unboxed Items

Wooden Man Spin Wheel/Yarn Neck Brace African Sitting 4 Spears 1 Shovel 1 High Chair (circa 1884) 1 Work Bench w/ Chopping Ax attached 1 Wooden Board with two holes (toilet seat?) 1 Machete 1 Drill (ground) 1 Metal (Burgundy & Gold Statute – Chicken on Top with Bell Underneath) 1 Metal Prisoner Mask (with lock) 1 Metal Prisoner Collar with bells 1 Hand Harp 1 Hand-held xxxxx 1 Mammy Utensil Holder 1 Crated Wood Chair 1 xxxx Figure


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