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Tobacco Crop in Charlotte County

William Windom

A Nice Family Party.

William Jenning’s Bryan Campaigning in 1908

Freedmans Village—Greene Heights Arlington, VA.

Educating the Freedmen in Alexandria

Blurry daguerreotype image of a well-dressed Black woman, Maria Carter Syphax — Maria Carter Syphax

Daguerreotype of an elderly Black man holding his light-skinned grandson — Charles Syphax and Grandson

Naval Swivel Gun Associated with the HMS Otter

James Forten

Medal of Honor for Seaman Joachim Pease (obverse)

Medal of Honor for Black Seaman Joachim Pease

Crew Members on USS Miami

Black Crewmen on USS Miami

Taylor Armistead on the Hampton River

Possible Formerly Enslaved Man or Contraband

Oyster Shuckers

Three men are dwarfed as they stand amid huge piles of shucked oyster shells — Pile of Oyster Shells

Galilean Fishermen Consolidated Bank and Printing Office

Oyster Tongers

Busy view of a passenger boat and two barges on the James and Kanawha Canal in Richmond — The James River and Kanawha Canal, Richmond, Virginia.

Unidentified Black Sailor During the Civil War

Black Sailor in Uniform

Mine Oyster—Dredging-Boats in the Chesapeake.

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Hypnotisk Seans (Hypnotic Séance)

Virginia. Lunatic Asylum, at Staunton.

National Woman Suffrage Association

“The Woman Who Dared”

Masthead for the Revolution

Paulina Wright Davis

Constitution of the National Woman Suffrage Association

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Abandoned Gristmill in Virginia

Group Celebrating Juneteenth

“Manifest of Slaves”

General Gordon Granger

1873 Republican Ticket

Monument to Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Capitol Square

Frontispiece Portrait of Booker T. Washington

Downtown Farmville

Barbara Johns Powell

Undated Photograph of a Young Barbara Johns

Rowland Powell and Barbara Johns Powell

Barbara Johns Powell and Family

Farmville High School Gymnasium

Exterior of the All-White Farmville High School

Exterior of the All-Black Robert Russa Moton High School

Farmville High School Auditorium

Auditorium/Athletic Facility at the Robert Russa Moton High School

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