Browse Items (26 total)
- Tags: 19th Century
Album, Woodblock Prints
The album holds 48 pages of woodblock prints. Most of the prints are attributed to one of the late great print masters of the Edo period (1603-1868), Utagawa…
Anchor
Bottle, Medicine
Coin
Face: An eagle in free flight appears in the center, with the words "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" around the upper half of the coin. The date 1857 at bottom.
Back: A wreath of corn, cotton, wheat, and tobacco tied with a…
Tags: 19th Century, Animals, Birds, Communication, Currency, Imagery, Money, North America, Pennsylvania, Plants, United States
Coin
Tags: 19th Century, Communication, Currency, Europe, Imagery, Italy, Metal, Money
Doll, George Glenn
Starting in the 1960s, I. Roberta Bell, a Chicago school teacher, created a set of 26 dolls to help teach African American history to…
Tags: 19th Century, 20th Century, African American History, Art, Ceramics, Children, Clothing, Communication, Green, History, Illinois, Imagery, North America, Orange, People, Recreation, School, Tan, Toys, United States
Dress, Wedding
Dress belonged to Ann Gertrude Johnson who married William Bradley Booker on October 28, 1896 in Columbus, Arkansas
2-piece fitted bodice that has 13 hook and eyes on interior placket, pleats from bottom to…
Tags: 19th Century, Arkansas, Ceremonial, Clothing, Communication, History, Lace, North America, Silk, United States, Weddings
Gown, Commencement
Lid, Covered Dish
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Dress, Wedding
Silk and lace white wedding dress.
Dress belonged to Ann Gertrude Johnson who married William Bradley Booker on October 28, 1896 in Columbus,…