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The Anti-Slavery Alphabet, Letters “A” and “B”

Formal photographic portrait of Jamie Porter Aurora Barrett wearing glasses and a pearl necklace — Janie Aurora Porter Barrett

Entertainment at the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls

From the Merry-Go-Round, Over the Sliding Board Into the Pool.

Photographs of girls cheering during a baseball and team photos at the bottom — Athletics at the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls

Domestic Education at the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls

Dedication Ceremony for the Industrial Home School for Colored Girls

Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls “Farm Report”

Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls “Sewing Room Report”

Jane Webb Petition

1725 Handwritten petition by Thomas Savage to the Northampton County Court — Petition to Remove Jane Webb’s Children

Children holding hands in a semicircle with their caregiver — “Waiting for the kindergarten hour”

Group of Black women working on a large quilt atop a table — The Quilting Club

Black football team practicing — Boys Football Team

Janeie Porter Barrett sits with her husband and three children in the parlor of her home — Janie Porter Barrett at Home with Her Family

Group of Black children tending an outdoor garden — Children’s Garden

A group of Black girls in light-colored dresses pose on a seesaw — The Playground

Group of Black women and girls pose for a photograph while sewing on a front porch — Sewing Class

Women, young children, and babies posing on outdoor steps on "Baby Day" at Hampton's Locust Street Social Settlement — Baby Day at Hampton’s Locust Street Social Settlement

Black men in suits seated around tables playing games — Game Night at the Club

Unpaved Cotton Avenue in Macon, Georgia, with a trolley and local businesses — Cotton Avenue in Macon, Georgia

Black woman and two Black children stand on the steps of the Janie Porter Barrett Day Nursery — Janie Porter Barrett Day Nursery

Richmond College

Westbourne, Home of the Douglas Southall Freeman Family

Douglas Southall Freeman in 1951

Man adjusting lens of a large telescope — Telescope Inside Leander McCormick Observatory

Ten-story hotel on the corner of Ohio and Rush streets in Chicago — The Virginia Hotel in Chicago

Three-quarter photographic portrait of a bearded Leander James McCormick — Leander James McCormick

Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Community House and Interpretive Center

Wampum belt made out of tubular-shaped purple and white mollusk shells that create a geometric design — Contemporary Nottoway Wampum Belt

Map of the Circle and Square Tracts

Jamestown in the 1690’s — Changing Times

Colorful quilt showing a Nottoway Indian town surrounded by a fence and tribal members in various places inside and outside the enclosure — The Great Town Imagined

Leonard R. Flemings

Advertisement placed by James Madison to capture an enslaved teenager includes a silhouette of a person running — James Madison Seeking the Capture of an Enslaved Teenager

Newspaper ad by James Madison seeking the return of an enslaved man who fled Montpelier — “Ran Away”

Blueprrint of Leander McCormick Obersevatory as seen from above — Original Blueprint of Leander McCormick Observatory

McCormick factory complex on the banks of the Chicago River — McCormick Factory Complex in Chicago

Catalogue cover of the McCormick company's product line in 1860 — McCormick’s Reaping and Mowing Machines

An engraved image of a farmer seated on a two-wheeled mower drawn by horses — “1868. McCormick’s Improved Two-Wheeled Mower.”

Aerial view of structures and garden at James Monroe's Highland — Aerial View of James Monroe’s Highland

“Ten Dollars Reward.”

Four panels showing farmer on McCormick mower, McCormick factory complex, sad man who didn't buy a McCormick product, and a young girl surrounded by daisies — Advertisement for McCormick Steel Mower No. 4

Two panels with farmer on two-wheeled McCormick Mower, at top, and a happy customer below — Advertisement for McCormick Steel Mower No. 3

Advertisement for the first McCormick reaper showing a man on horseback and another man raking — The oldest Reaper alive! The father of them all.

Handwritten pass allowing an enslaved man to travel from Montpelier to New Market — Pass Permitting Travel by an Enslaved Man from Montpelier

John Payne Todd

Objects Made by Enslaved Blacksmiths at Montpelier

Emancipation Memorial depicting a formerly enslaved man with broken shackles on his wrist and Abraham Lincoln standing above him — Emancipation Memorial

President Lyndon B. Johnson reaches out to shake Dr. Martin Luther King's hand — Voting Rights Act of 1965

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