Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection Racial and Ethnic Ephemera CollectionMss 1.05

Racial and Ethnic Ephemera CollectionMss 1.05


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Karen King, SCRC Staff

Repository
Special Collections Research Center
Identification
Mss 1.05
Title
Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection 1778-2005
Quantity
4 Linear Feet
Language
English German

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Use:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Conditions Governing Access:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Preferred Citation:

Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Acc. 2007.80 was purchased 8/30/2007. Acc. 2007.81 was purchased 8/30/2007. Acc. 2008.32 was purchased 5/1/2008. Acc. 2008.46 was purchased 5/16/2008.   Acc. 2008.64 was purchased 6/9/2008. Acc. 2008.94 was purchased 9/10/2008. Acc. 2008.95 was purchased 9/10/20008. Acc. 2008.159 was purchased 12/19/2008. Acc. 2009.063 was purchased on 2/24/2009. Acc. 2009.036 was purchased on 1/19/2009. Acc. 2009.147 was purchased on 4/6/2009. Acc. 2009.151 was purchased on 3/30/2009. Acc. 2009.180 was purchased on 4/29/2009. Acc. 2009.181 was purchased on 4/29/2009. Acc. 2009.226 was purchased on 5/25/2009. Acc. 2009.235 was purchased on 5/31/2009. Acc. 2009.305 was purchased on 7/17/2009. Acquisition information for material received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special Collections Research Center staff member. Acc. 2014.123-Acc. 2014.125 purchased for Swem Library with support from the SCRC Donors Fund.

Processing Information:

Acc. 2011.633, Acc. 2011.635, Acc. 2011.637 accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in October 2011. Full finding aid created in March 2015 and revised in December 2017 by Special Collections staff.

Accruals:

Additions are being made to this collection on an ongoing basis.


Scope and Contents

The racial and ethnic ephemera collection contains various materials regarding race, ethnicity, and racism in the United States. The collection includes papers and items that promote racial prejudice and propaganda. The collection also contains items and papers that exemplify the fight for civil and equal rights. African Americans are the most broadly represented group in the collection. Other ethnic groups include Native Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, and Cuban Americans. Ku Klux Klan pamphlets and anti-immigration publications are also included. Through this collection, the American struggle of racism and prejudice is realized.

Arrangement of Materials:

The collection is divided into eight series by race and/or ethnicity. The series are African American, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, Muslim American, Cuban American, Ku Klux Klan, and Immigration and Discrimination. The contents for each series are grouped by material type and ordered chronologically.

Related Material

Ingersol View Company Stereographs, Comic Series #2

Related materials, such as rare books, are recorded at the folder level.

See also: individual titles in the Manuscript Sheet Music Collection (Mss. 1.07), Box 48, and individual items in the Manuscript Artifact Collection.

For similar material relating to race, ethnicity, and racism outside of the United States, see the Ephemera Collection, Mss. 1.02.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Advertising cards
  • African Americans
  • African Americans in popular culture
  • African Americans in the performing arts
  • African Americans--Biography
  • African Americans--Caricatures and cartoons
  • African Americans--Education--Virginia
  • African Americans--History
  • African Americans--Suffrage
  • Antisemitism
  • Birthday cards
  • Blaxploitation films -- United States
  • Board games (activities)
  • Board games (game sets)
  • Calendars
  • Card games (game sets)
  • Chinese Americans--Caricatures and cartoons
  • Chinese Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--History
  • Christmas cards
  • Collecting cards
  • Comic strips
  • Communism--United States
  • Cuban Americans--Public opinion.
  • Fliers (printed matter)
  • Greeting cards
  • Indians of North America
  • Kwanzaa
  • Plays (document genre)
  • Political cartoons
  • Postcards
  • Race awareness--Simulation methods
  • Race discrimination--Simulation methods
  • Race relations--1960-1970
  • Race relations--United States--History--19th century
  • Race relations--United States--History--20th century
  • Reprints
  • Role playing
  • Satires (document genre)
  • Sheet music
  • Songbooks
  • Stereoscopic photographs
  • VHS (TM)
  • Welfare recipients--Public opinion
  • Welfare--Caricatures and cartoons
  • World War, 1939-1945--United States
  • Yearbooks

Container List

id70844
Series 1: African Americans
1869-2002English
Scope and Contents

Included are published items like travel guides, joke books, song books, story books, programs and handbills, comic strips, a yearbook, election fliers, political publications, pamphlets and calendars.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id261886
    Civil War Prints
    1861-1865
    Scope and Contents

    This fFolder contains three envelopes: Union patriotic envelope depicting a black man picking cotton, titled "One of the Rebels", (Acc.2014.123), Union patriotic envelope of a slave dressed as the " King  next hit of the South," (Acc. 2014.124), Union patriotic envelope with a map of the south (Acc. 2014.125).

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id261890
    Stereotypes
    1884 -1928 and undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 object: 1
      The Dime Dialogues, No. 31
      1884
      Scope and Contents

      A booklet of twenty minor dramas, extravaganzas, and farces for the amateur stage. The plays contain stereotypical typecasting of African Americans.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2012.047

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 2
      Ten Little Niggers Booklet
      1890
      Scope and Contents

      A story book entitled "The Ten Little Niggers," with stereotypical illustrations. The layout of the book is similar to that of "Ten Little Indians."

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.125

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 object: 3
      Echoes From the South Songbook
      1900
      Scope and Contents

      This songbook features stereotypical illustrations of African Americans including pompous dresses and large lips.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2010.182

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 object: 4
      Ex Laughs Jokebook
      1920
      Scope and Contents

      This joke book features jokes that promote racism and a negative view of African Americans. The jokes are also anti-immigration and misogynistic.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.538

    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 object: 1
      Scrapbook
      undatedEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      The scrapbook dates from the late 1800's. The pictures in the book vary, from paintings of flowers to advertising cards for household items. One page in the book features several stereotypical images of African Americans. Pictures of monkeys are also placed on this page, therefore stating that they are one in the same.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.474

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
    Black Americana Trade Cards
    1869, 1908English
    Scope and Contents

    Advertising trade cards that contain stereotypically racist images of African Americans. The cards are for a clothier. The folder also contains an advertisement for Jos. J. Foley, Tailor, Boston MA, which has a November 1908 calendar alongside an illustration of African American children swinging and climbing trees.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    The clothier cards originated from Acc.2012.031. The Jos. J. Foley November 1908 calendar was transferred from the Williamsburg Ephemera Collection, February 2018.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 4
    Black Americana Trade Cards
    1873-1883 and undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains multiple advertising cards. The items advertised include soaps, clothing, and household goods. The cards contain stereotypical images of African Americans.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2008.046

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 5
    Black Americana Trade Cards
    circa 1880'sEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains advertising cards that depict African Americans in a negative light. Common features are large lips and flouncy outfits. The sketches on the cards often have little to do with the product being advertised.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2009.147

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 6
    Black Americana Trade Cards
    circa 1880'sEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    Stereotypical black representations on three advertising trade cards. The cards for pancake batter and clothes depict African Americans with large eyes and mouths along with other stereotypical features.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2009.346

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
    Black Americana Victorian Trade Cards
    1884English
    Scope and Contents

    Advertising cards for a clothier. The cards depict an African American man trying to command and then falling off a horse-drawn wagon.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2011.699

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
    Old Virginia Cheroots Cigar Band
    1886English
    Scope and Contents

    Advertisement card for Old Virginia Cheroots from the American Tobacco Company. The advertisement has a sketch of an African American man.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2008.188

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
    Old Black Joe Blackeyed Peas
    undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    Advertising label for Old Black Joe's blackeyed peas, showing a black man with a white beard.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2010.716

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
    Preliminary sketch of Edward V. Brewer's The Connoisseurs
    1916English
    Scope and Contents

    Sketch for "The Connoisseurs", a popular advertising image for Cream of Wheat. The painting features a black man in a chef's hat, teaching a child about the taste and health benefits of cream of wheat.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2014.117

  • Mixed Materials Manuscripts Oversize Box 2 folder: 1
    Print of Edward V. Brewer's "The Connoisseurs"
    1916English
    Scope and Contents

    Print of the painting by Edward V. Brewer entitled "The Connoisseurs" for the Cream of Wheat Company. The painting features an African American man in a chef costume tasting Cream of Wheat along with an African American boy in an apron and chef hat. Oversize item.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2014.116

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id262127
    Racial Caricature Postcards
    1896-1907
    Scope and Contents

    Five cards that have negative, stereotypical images of African Americans. Images include a black woman being compared to a donkey and young men playing craps.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2012.056

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 12 id262128
    Racial Caricature Postcards
    1900-1930English
    Scope and Contents

    Set of 22 racist postcards. Features include large lips and big eyes. Images also include depictions of African Americans stealing goods. Other cards include cartooned drawings of African Americans in flouncy clothing.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2012.184

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 13 id262129
    Racial Caricature Postcards
    1902-1944English
    Scope and Contents

    Set of 42 cards with racist imagery. Images include cartooned sketches of African Americans with big eyes and over exaggerated lips. Images depict African Americans as lazy and inept. They are shown stealing chickens, eating watermelon, and improperly serving white people.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2008.064

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 14 id262130
    Racial Caricature Postcard
    1907 July 08English
    Scope and Contents

    A postcard with an image of an African American boy with a large mouth, kneeling next to two watermelons

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2007.081

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id262131
    Racial Caricature Postcards
    1930-1960English
    Scope and Contents

    Set of eight postcards that have negative, stereotypical sketches of African Americans. Images include women with large behinds, boys eating watermelon, and men with large lips.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2007.080

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 16 id262132
    Racial Caricature Postcards
    1905 and undated
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains five racist postcards. They contain images including boys eating watermelon and a cartooned black man stealing a chicken.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2008.094

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17 id262133
    Racial Caricature Postcards
    Undated
    Scope and Contents

    Set of three postcards and a pamphlet entitled "Fun on the Run." The "Fun on the Run" pamphlet includes several racist and sexist caricatures.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2009.036

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 18 id262134
    Racial Caricature Postcards
    Undated
    Scope and Contents

    Postcard containing an image of a cartooned black man and woman. The man has large lips and torn clothing. The woman's features are exaggerated.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2012.236

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19
    Happy South Souvenir Folder Postcards
    undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    This souvenir features common images of African Americans in the south, including picking cotton, eating watermelon, and playing the fiddle.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2007.020

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 20 id262135
    Racial Caricature Greeting Cards
    1932 and undated
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains three Happy Birthday and one Christmas card. The cards contain cartooned sketches of African Americans, with factors such as large lips and big eyes. One happy birthday card has a sketch of three black women riding in a large watermelon.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2009.151

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 21 id262136
    Racial Caricature Greeting Cards
    Undated
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains numerous happy birthday cards featuring cartooned sketches of African American girls. The girls' features include large eyes and curly hair.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2009.304

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 22
    Racial Caricature Christmas Card
    UndatedEnglish
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 23 id262137
    Kwanzaa Greeting Cards and Stickers
    Undated
    Scope and Contents

    Cards that promote the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2009.564

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 24 id261897
    Jim Crow Era
    1900-1963 and undated
    Scope and Contents

    Publications from the Jim Crow era.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 24 object: 1
      Songs of 1900
      1900English
      Scope and Contents

      This is a book of rag-time melodies, which includes advertisements, sheet music, and lyrics.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2010.068

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 24 object: 2
      Essex previous hit County  next hit High School Yearbook
      1940English
      Scope and Contents

      This item is the yearbook of the African American high school in Essex previous hit County  next hit, Virginia. The yearbook includes photographs, poems, and advertisements.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2010.202

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 24 object: 3
      Travel Guide to Negro Hotels and Guest Houses
      1942English
      Scope and Contents

      This travel guide of "negro" hotels was published by Afro-American Newspapers. The guide includes a map of the East Coast and advertisements from multiple hotels.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2008.014

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 24 object: 4
      Theater Advertisements
      undatedEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      Two advertisements promoting performances by African American musicians and artists.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2012.277

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 25 id261917
    Lost Cause Ideology
    1955-1957English
    Scope and Contents

    The folder contains an item promoting the Lost Cause ideology, which conveys nostalgia for the Confederacy prior to the Civil War. Confederate norms are presented in the best possible light.

    Natchez Pilgrimage Brochure, 1955 March 31, invites people to celebrate the Old South by touring Antebellum mansions in Natchez, Mississippi. The brochure contains multiple photographs and descriptions of the old Antebellum mansion. (Acc.2012.278)

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 26 id261910
    Accomplishments
    1907-1979 and undated
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains publications celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of African Americans.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 26 object: 1
      The Jamestown Exposition and the History of Hampton Institute
      1907
      Scope and Contents

      The booklet describes the history and curricula of Hampton Institute, now Hampton University.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.329

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 26 object: 2
      Jubilee Singers' Flyers
      1925 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      The multiple brochures feature African American jubilee singers and performers.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2010. 018-020

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 26 object: 3
      Hampton Institute Negro Historical Society Brochure
      1940
      Scope and Contents

      This brochure is for the Negro History Society of the Hampton Institute and their presentation of singer Dorothy Maynor.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.241

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 26 object: 4
      The Great American Negro Calendar
      1971
      Scope and Contents

      This calendar features the stories of famous African American inventors, politicians, and scholars.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2009.389

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 id261931
    The Civil Rights Movement
    1935-1980 and undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 object: 1 id261932
      Arthur H. Vandenberg Election Flyer
      1935
      Scope and Contents

      This flyer promotes the election of Arthur H. Vandenberg as senator of Michigan. It states that Vandenberg promises to outlaw the poll tax and favors an anti-lynching law. Vandenberg promises to support African American causes if elected.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.20120.248

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 27 object: 2 id261984
      Public Service and National Social Welfare Comic Strips
      1949-1957
      Scope and Contents

      These comic strips promote racial tolerance. One comic entitled "Stand Up For Sportsmanship," features Batman stopping a fight between two boys, one white and one black. When Batman asks what happened, he discovers they're fighting because the white boy doesn't want the black boy to play with them because "he don't belong, he ain't a real American." Batman responds with a lesson about racial tolerance, saying "don't believe the crackpot lies about people who worship differently, or whose skin is of a different color, or whose parents come from another country... a nation divided by prejudice is like a football team without teamwork." The next one, featuring Batman, teaches the reader that a country divided by racial prejudice is the same as a football team without teamwork. The next comic encourages a baseball team to be accepting of players of different ethnicity. The last comic, featuring superman, promotes both racial and religious tolerance.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2010.111

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 object: 3
      "I saw Negro Votes Peddled"
      1950 NovemberEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      Reprint of an article from the American Legion magazine concerns the buying of Negro votes.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 object: 4 id261990
      Defend the Ghetto Uprisings
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      This folder includes a pamphlet published by the Independent Socialist Club promoting the black power movement.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.468

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 id261998
    The Communist Stance on Civil Rights
    1947 - 1975 and undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 object: 1 id261999
      Aims of Red Pro-Negro Plot
      1928
      Scope and Contents

      This pamphlet entitled "Here's Proof of the Red Pro-Negro Plot Against South & USA." argues that communist are trying to stir up trouble between white and black races, promoting racial mixing, and eventually want to control America. Pamphlet includes a map of the south, which it states Communist want to turn into a Negro Communist Soviet.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2007.020

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 28 object: 2 id262006
      "Martin Luther previous hit King  next hit at a Communist Training School"
      1961
      Scope and Contents

      This flyier shows a picture of Martin Luther previous hit King  next hit, Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders at a supposed Communist training school. The flier states that these leaders have brought tension, disturbance, and violence while trying to promote these Communist ideals.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.467

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 object: 3 id262007
      "To the Negroes of America"
      1967
      Scope and Contents

      This booklet was published by Robert Welch. He argues that the "negro" population is much better off than populations around the globe. He also states that the population has made great strides in the last hundred years. Welch believes that the Communists are trying to turn black people against white people in America.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.468

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 object: 4 id262010
      "We Don't Want Another Boston in Cleveland," Integration Struggle
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      This pamphlet was printed by the Communist Party of Cleveland.  The pamphlet states that black and white people work side and side, and therefore black and white children should be able to learn and live with each other.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.468

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 object: 5
      "Unity or Else…"
      undatedEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      A pamphlet from the Communist Party of California.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 id261992
    Black Labor and Unions
    1942-1987 and undated
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 object: 1
      "The Genocide Pact"
      1954 March 20English
      Scope and Contents

      An editorial from the Monroe, La. Morning World, concerns the author's fears that the United Nations is secretly a Communist plot.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 object: 2
      "Monday May 19th!!! The chickens have come home to roost"
      circa 1965English
      Scope and Contents

      A flyer created by the Bay Area Revoluntionary Union concerning streets that are still occupied by the National Guard.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 object: 3 id261993
      Close Harmony Pamphlet
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      A pamphlet subtitled "a voice and vote for every member in the UAW-CIO regardless of race, color or creed." The pamphlet states that whites and "negroes" are all members of the same family and should be employed to the same end. The UAW-CIO promotes the hiring of "negroes" in all fields.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.467

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 object: 4
      "Come Out Swinging"
      undatedEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      A Labor Education Fund pamphlet.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 object: 5 id261997
      "You Cannot Kill the Working Class" Pamphlet
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      This pamphlet by Angelo Herndon describes the hardship of working in a southern mining town. Herndon describes how he fought the system and promoted fair pay to working class citizens.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.467

  • Board Games and Card Games
    1896-1994 and undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    The themes of these games range from satirizing to celebrating the progress and intellect of African Americans.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 30
      In Dixie-Land Playing Cards
      1896English
      Scope and Contents

      52 playing cards from the game "In Dixie-Land". Copyrighted 1896, L.D. Baldwin, by The Fireside Game Co. The instructions are missing.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2012.247

    • Mixed Materials Artifacts Box 521 UA 2008.032
      Negro Hero Playing Cards (UA 2008.032)
      undatedEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      This folder contains a set of playing cards. The cards have a sketch and a brief biological summary of influential African American inventors, politicians, musicians, and activists. Rules for the game are included.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2008.032

    • Mixed Materials Artifact: 1 id262244
      Blacks and Whites
      1970English
      Scope and Contents

      This board game is a racially based Monopoly style game. White players are allowed to buy properties throughout the board while black players are restricted to center areas. The game exemplifies the difficulties of living in a racially segregated housing market. The game is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.61.B5 1970.

    • Mixed Materials Artifact: 2 id262247
      Welfare
      1978English
      Scope and Contents

      The game, which portrays public welfare and its recipients in a negative light, caused immediate controversy upon its publication. It was also perceived as racist and sexist and government agencies appealed to retailers to pull it off the shelves.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2009.331

    • Mixed Materials Artifact: 3 id262248
      Forty Famous Black Americans
      1988English
      Scope and Contents

      This game is a quiz and trivia style game. The game tests players' knowledge of black athletes, musicians, and activists. The game is also cataloged in the Swem Library online catalog as Rare Book E185.96.F67 1988

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2009.235

    • Mixed Materials Artifact: 4 id262250
      Journey to the Muthuland
      1994English
      Scope and Contents

      This board game tests players' knowledge of African American achievement in history, patents, inventions, sports, and entertainment. There is also a category of questions titled black awareness. Players answer questions to move along on a board, through the struggles of slavery and Jim Crow, eventually arriving back in Africa.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2010.002

    • Mixed Materials Artifact: 5 id262252
      Snake Eyes
      undatedEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      This game is a game of dice where players role to turn over face cards number one through twelve. The cards and box feature racist imagery, including African Americans with bulging eyes and huge lips.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2010.008

    • Mixed Materials Artifact: 6 id262254
      FundA
      undatedEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      This board game is a trivia style game which tests players' knowledge of African American history. Players answer questions to receive an associates, bachelors, masters, and doctorate in black studies. The word "funda" comes from an African language and means to instruct.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2010.189

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 32
    African American Cards and Valentines
    1910-1920English
    Scope and Contents

    Five various cards and Valentine's featuring caricatures of African Americans. Most of the cards depict the individuals with over exaggerated features and stereotypes, such as one card showing an African American eating watermelon.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 33
    African American Postcards
    1910-1930English
    Scope and Contents

    20 caricature and three photograph postcards of African Americans. Most of the caricature postcards feature stereotypical cartoons and captions of African Americans. The photographs show African Americans tilling in cotton fields and posing outside dilapidated homes.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 34
    Stereoviews of African American Families
    1880-1920English
    Scope and Contents

    Three stereoviews showing African Americans picking cotton in Georgia and Mississippi cotton fields and sugar cane in Peurto Rico. The views were produced by Underwood and Underwood, and the Keystone Viewing Company.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 5
    Blaxploitation Film Video Covers
    1929-2004English
    Scope and Contents

    This box contains VHS tapes that are notable for the original video cases. Most of the movies are from the Blaxploitation genre, a controversial film movement. Blaxploitation films contained many common stereotypes. The black community is often portrayed as violent and drug related. However, some people believed the films were examples of black expression and power.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    All videos contained herein originated from Acc.2010.495.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 1
      Hallelujah!
      1929English
      Scope and Contents

      This film features a young man who accidently kills his brother and then becomes a preacher to seek amends.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 2
      The Cool World
      1963English
      Scope and Contents

      This fFilm features gang life in Harlem, New York.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 3
      Cotton Comes to Harlem
      1970English
      Scope and Contents

      The film features two men who work in Harlem. They get sent on a wild goose chase looking for money hidden in a barrel of cotton.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 4
      Shaft
      1971English
      Scope and Contents

      The film features a Harlem private eye hired to save teenagers kidnapped by the Mafia.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 5
      Super Fly
      1972English
      Scope and Contents

      This film features a Harlem drug-dealer who wants to make one last sell before quitting the cocaine business.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 6
      Cleopatra Jones
      1973English
      Scope and Contents

      The film features Cleopatra Jones, drug traffickers' deadliest enemy.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 7
      Enter the Dragon
      1973English
      Scope and Contents

      The film takes Bruce Lee to the island fortress of a criminal warlord, whom Bruce Lee must overcome.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 8
      Scream Blacula Scream
      1973English
      Scope and Contents

      This film features Dracula's bloodbrother, Blacula.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 9
      The Spook Who Sat by the Door
      1973English
      Scope and Contents

      The film features black CIA recruits from Chicago who become freedom fighters after their military training.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 10
      Black Belt Jones
      1974English
      Scope and Contents

      The fFilm features Pop Boyd, a martial arts champion who opens a studio on land that the Mafia wants to use as a headquarters.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 11
      Mean Mother
      1974English
      Scope and Contents

      This fFilm features two ex-Vietnam soldiers who pursue the elite drug dealing industries.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 12
      Soul Vengeance
      1975English
      Scope and Contents

      This film features a young black man who seeks revenge when he is arrested on false charges.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 13
      Black Heat
      1976English
      Scope and Contents

      The f Film features black drug dealers, mobsters, and undercover cops.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 14
      The Human Tornado (Dolemite II)
      1976English
      Scope and Contents

      In this sequel to Dolemite, Rudy Ray Moore flees to California, where he helps Queen Bee and her Kung-Fu girls battle a local gangster.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 15
      Petey Wheatstraw, The Devil's Son in Law
      1979English
      Scope and Contents

      The film features a morally bankrupt man who can save his own life only if he marries the devil's ugly daughter.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 16
      Disco Grandfather
      1979English
      Scope and Contents

      The film features a man who owns a disco and declares war on the producers of Angel Dust, a drug corrupting his nephew.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 17
      Penitentiary 2
      1983English
      Scope and Contents

      This film features a man who seeks revenge on his girlfriend's killer.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 18
      Action Jackson
      1988English
      Scope and Contents

      This fFilm features a Detroit police sergeant who is pitted against brutal thugs.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 19
      One Down Two to Go
      1994English
      Scope and Contents

      The film features friends who are hiding from the mob and hunting a gangster boss, who rigged a karate tournament.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 20
      The Mack
      1995English
      Scope and Contents

      The fFilm features a man, just recently released from prison, who uses brains and muscles to survive in the city.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 21
      Black Dragon Fever
      1998English
      Scope and Contents

      The fFilm features the Black Dragon, who teams up with kung fu dynamo Dragon Lee as they take on the Korean and Japanese mafias.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 22
      Blade
      1998English
      Scope and Contents

      The film features a man named Blade, who is the last hope for humanity, when a bloodthirsty lord declares war on the human race.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 23
      Blade II
      2002English
      Scope and Contents

      The fFilm features a vampire slayer who fights to save humanity.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 24
      Leprechaun, Back 2 The Hood
      2003English
      Scope and Contents

      The fFilm features a gang who goes from rags to riches, and then fights a knife-wielding, car stealing leprechaun.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 25
      Blade Trinity
      2004English
      Scope and Contents

      This film is the third in a trilogy. It features a vampire hunter who must join forces with a clan of other hunters to find and defeat Dracula.

  • Blaxploitation Cinema
    English
    • Mixed Materials Oversize_Folder: 1
      Cinema Posters
      English
      Processing Information

      Acc. 2014.194

id262094
Series 2: Native Americans
1778-1960 and undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 1
    Art
    circa 1778English
    Scope and Contents

    The Great Cataract or Waterfall of Niagara in North America, This folder contains a copperplate engraving of Niagara Falls on paper. The image depicts a group of Native Americans showing Europeans the beauty of the falls. In the background, there are several Native Americans hauling large stones.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2012.187

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 2
    Advertisement
    undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    Powhatan Applesauce Label. This folder contains an advertising label for apple sauce named after the famed Native American chiefdom, the Powhatan. The advertisement includes a sketch of a Native American with a colorful head band and feather in his hair.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2010.761

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
    Publications
    1883English
    Scope and Contents

    Iron previous hit King  next hit Cook Calendar. This calendar features a scene in which white settlers shot Native Americans while hiding behind a large iron previous hit king stove.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2012.430

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 4 id262140
    American Indian Oil Painting Postcards
    1949English
    Scope and Contents

    Set of 12 postcards that feature oil paintings of Native American imagery. The cards depict a variety of different scenes, including an Indian camp, a hunted buffalo, a tepee, and an Indian carrying an American flag after Custer's Last Stand. The postcards have a short description of each portrayed scene.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2010.033

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 5 id262139
    Native American Postcards
    1900-1960English
    Scope and Contents

    Set of 28 postcards featuring images of Native Americans. The postcards represent tribes from all over the country, from the Iroquois to the Hopi. Common images are war dances and dwellings such as tepees and long houses. Many of the postcards have short descriptions of the scenes on the back.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2010.110

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 6 id262141
    Native American and Southwestern U.S. Postcards
    1940-1960English
    Scope and Contents

    Set of 90 postcards that portray Indian life in the south western United States. Images include young girls and boys, Indians in traditional tribal outfits, mountains, canyons, and pueblo houses.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2008.159

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id262142
    Famous Indian Chiefs Souvenir Folder Postcards
    undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a souvenir folder that contains a description and multiple illustrations of Indian chiefs. The chiefs depicted are all from Western tribes, including the Pueblos, Navajos, Apache, Sioux, and Blackfoot. The description states that the Pueblos are the most civilized of the nations. The illustrations include portraits of the leaders as well as scenes of the leaders in the picturesque mountains of the west.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2010.090

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id262143
    American Indian Life Souvenir Folder Postcards
    undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a souvenir folder that describes and illustrates southwestern Native American life. The author notes that native life is "primitive" with little industry and machinery. The images contain various scenes, including a mother and child standing next to cactus brush, people gathered around a tepee, a pueblo village, and men creating wampum beads. Also depicted are images of natives performing a variety of crafts and chores.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2012.236

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 9
    Native American Trading Cards
    1879 and undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    Set of trading cards that contain negative imagery of Native Americans. Images include Native Americans being stabbed by white settler, a Native American man drinking too much, and misrepresentations of traditional Indian outfits.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2010.041

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 10
    "Red Indian" Trading Cards
    undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    The trading cards depict imagery of Native Americans, including totem poles, war dances, and stockades. The cards have images on one side, and a short description of the scene on the other.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    The two seperate sets are marked as such, Acc.2011.052 and Acc.2010.054.

  • Mixed Materials Manuscripts Oversize Box 2 folder: 1
    Native American Trading Cards
    undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    Oversized trading that that have photographs and drawing of various Native American leaders. The cards have the image on one side, and a short biography of the leader on the other. This trading cards are housed separately due to their large size.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2009.181

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 11
    American Indian Chiefs Strip Cards
    undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    The trading cards have photographs and drawings of various Native American leaders. The cards have the image on one side, and a short biography of the leader on the other.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2008.160

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
    Native American Collector's Cards
    undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    This set of 90 cards have images on one side of famous Native American leaders and of famous battles fought by various native tribes. The backside has a short, skewed description of historical events.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2010.053

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 13
    Indian Tribe Bridge Tally Cards
    undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    This folder contains a box of bridge tally cards. The cards have sketches of Native American people and scenery, along with the names and locations of different tribes.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2010.262

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
    Wild West Gum cards
    John H. Dockman and Son.
    .1 Linear Feet 1 legal size folder
    Circa 1910
    Scope and Contents

    The Wild West Gum cards contains 22 cards depicting colorized illustrations of Native Americans. The collection was part of a set of 24 cards manufactured by John H. Dockman and Son in the early twentieth century.

id262117
Series 3: Asian Americans
1870-1946 and undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1
    Trading Cards
    1870-1890 and undatedEnglish
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1 object: 1
      Paragon Dried Beef Advertisements
      1870English
      Scope and Contents

      The Paragon Beef trading cards include negative images of Chinese men with long braids and stereotypical straw hats.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2009.063

    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1 object: 2
      Advertising Cards
      1880-1890English
      Scope and Contents

      Series of advertising cards that promote the Chinese immigrant population in a negative way. Advertisers include Celluloid Corset Clasps, Kendall Manufacturing Company Soaps and Soapine, Henderson's Goods, and Gent's Furnishings and Fancy Goods Houses. The images depict Chinese men with long hair embarking on ships and men with over exaggerated eye features. The images often have little to do with the product being advertised.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2009.321

    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1 object: 3
      Trading Cards
      undatedEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      Series of cards that depict a scene between two white boys and a Chinese man. The children pull the man's braid, snap it off, and project the Chinese man from his perch, thus solving the "Chinese problem". Another card shows Chinese men being bitten by a dog.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2009.316

    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1 object: 4
      Trading Cards
      undatedEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      Set of cards that depict Asian Americans in negative ways. Images include men embarking on a boat for China, a sketch of Mun Wong, and a Chinese child holding an umbrella.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2010.040

  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 2
    Postcards
    undatedEnglish
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2 object: 1
      Fourth of July Postcard
      undatedEnglish
      Scope and Contents

      This Fourth of July postcard displays racist imagery towards Asian Americans. The card portrays an Asian woman running away from a fire cracker.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2010.138

    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 2 object: 2
      A Chinatown Gentleman, San Francisco, California
      undatedEnglish
      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2007.080

    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 2 object: 3
      All Kinds of Little Troubles
      undatedEnglish
      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2009.321

  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 3 id261925
    Mutt and Jeff Comic Strip
    1946
    Scope and Contents

    This comic strip includes stereotypical images of a Chinese man who entrapped his long braid in a rail road track.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2010.112

  • Mixed Materials Artifact: 7 id262255
    Chi-Chi Fortune Tellers
    1915
    Scope and Contents

    This game includes a small box of sticks. Each player is to shake the box and the first stick that pops out is the one chosen. Each stick has a number, and the numbers correspond to a booklet that contains fortunes.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2011.648

id262122
Series 4: Jewish Americans
undatedEnglish
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id262123
    Jewish Life in Many Lands Trading Cards
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    Series of two sided trading cards. One of the sides have images of aspects of Jewish life, such as lighting candles and dancing with the torah. The other sides have short bible verses and explanations of the images.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2011.051

id262258
Series 5: Muslim Americans
2005
  • Mixed Materials Artifact: 8 id262259
    Hajj Fun Game
    2005
    Scope and Contents

    This game is an educational trivia game that features questions regarding different aspects of the Islamic Hajj. Categories include "How to Perform Hajj," "Places of Hajj," and "General Questions on Hajj." The game is geared toward teaching children about the Muslim pilgrimage.

Series 6: Cuban Americans
circa 1917English
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 5
    A Cuban Wet Nurse
    circa 1917English
    Scope and Contents

    The postcard displays a derogatory image of a Cuban mother feeding her two small children, one of whom nurses from a goat.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2008.094

id261906
Series 7: Ku Klux Klan
1921-1980 and undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 6 id261907
    KKK Publications
    1921-1945 and undated
    Scope and Contents

    Items in this folder include pamphlets instructing men on how to be good Klan members, a pamphlet regarding the Klan's attitude toward immigration, the Klan's attitude toward the Jew and other letters of propaganda.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2011.466

  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 7 id261908
    KKK Meeting Minutes
    1931-1936
    Scope and Contents

    This folder include meeting minutes from a chapter of the Klu Klux Klan in Elkton, Maryland. The folder also includes the obituary of klansmen Raymond C. Fronk.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2011.618

  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 8
    Anti-KKK Publications
    1980 and undatedEnglish
    Scope and Contents

    This folder includes a pamphlet published by the Equal Rights Congress in a national effort to outlaw the Nazis and the Klu Klux Klan. The folder also contains fliers promoting integration and racial tolerance.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Acc.2011.467

id261926
Series 8: Immigration and Discrimination
1925 and undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9
    Anti-Immigration Publications
    undatedEnglish
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 9 object: 1 id261928
      "Should Foreign Emigration be Encouraged or Restricted, if Either, How" Manuscript
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      This folder includes a manuscript by an unknown author on the subject of foreign immigration into the United States of America. The author argues that foreign populations should be restricted from coming to the United States. The manuscript also discusses the various races and ethnicities that should be restricted, including the Irish, the Jewish population, Italians, and the African and Asian races. The document concludes with a list of prohibitions that the author would impose to keep the immigrant populations from entering the country.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2012.142

    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 9 object: 2 id261930
      "Order of United American Mechanics"
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      This booklet is published by the Order United American Mechanics, a secret fraternity composed entirely of citizens born in the US.American citizens born. The booklet argues against competition for jobs with foreign-born immigrants.

      Immediate Source of Acquisition

      Acc.2011.587

  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10 id262307
    Anti-Discrimination Ink Blotters
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    Cards with images and phrases that promote racial and religious equality.