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Karen King, SCRC Staff
Administrative Information
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Conditions Governing Access:
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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
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 Prints1861-1865Scope 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
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
Stereotypes1884 -1928 and undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 object: 1
The Dime Dialogues, No. 311884Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2012.047
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 object: 2
Ten Little Niggers Booklet1890Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.125
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 object: 3
Echoes From the South Songbook1900Scope and Contents
This songbook features stereotypical illustrations of African Americans including pompous dresses and large lips.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2010.182
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 object: 4
Ex Laughs Jokebook1920Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.538
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 object: 1
ScrapbookundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.474
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 object: 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
Black Americana Trade Cards1869, 1908EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionThe 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 Cards1873-1883 and undatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2008.046
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 5
Black Americana Trade Cardscirca 1880'sEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2009.147
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 6
Black Americana Trade Cardscirca 1880'sEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2009.346
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Black Americana Victorian Trade Cards1884EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.699
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Old Virginia Cheroots Cigar Band1886EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2008.188
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
Old Black Joe Blackeyed PeasundatedEnglishScope and Contents
Advertising label for Old Black Joe's blackeyed peas, showing a black man with a white beard.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2010.716
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
Preliminary sketch of Edward V. Brewer's The Connoisseurs1916EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2014.117
- Mixed Materials Manuscripts Oversize Box 2 folder: 1
Print of Edward V. Brewer's "The Connoisseurs"1916EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2014.116
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id262127
Racial Caricature Postcards1896-1907Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2012.056
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 12 id262128
Racial Caricature Postcards1900-1930EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2012.184
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 13 id262129
Racial Caricature Postcards1902-1944EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2008.064
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 14 id262130
Racial Caricature Postcard1907 July 08EnglishScope and Contents
A postcard with an image of an African American boy with a large mouth, kneeling next to two watermelons
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2007.081
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id262131
Racial Caricature Postcards1930-1960EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2007.080
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 16 id262132
Racial Caricature Postcards1905 and undatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2008.094
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17 id262133
Racial Caricature PostcardsUndatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2009.036
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 18 id262134
Racial Caricature PostcardsUndatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2012.236
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19
Happy South Souvenir Folder PostcardsundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2007.020
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 20 id262135
Racial Caricature Greeting Cards1932 and undatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2009.151
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 21 id262136
Racial Caricature Greeting CardsUndatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2009.304
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 22
Racial Caricature Christmas CardUndatedEnglish
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 23 id262137
Kwanzaa Greeting Cards and StickersUndatedScope and Contents
Cards that promote the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2009.564
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 24 id261897
Jim Crow Era1900-1963 and undatedScope and Contents
Publications from the Jim Crow era.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 24 object: 1
Songs of 19001900EnglishScope and Contents
This is a book of rag-time melodies, which includes advertisements, sheet music, and lyrics.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2010.068
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 24 object: 2
1940English
Scope and Contents
This item is the yearbook of the African American high school in Essex
County
, Virginia. The yearbook includes photographs, poems, and advertisements.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2010.202
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 24 object: 3
Travel Guide to Negro Hotels and Guest Houses1942EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2008.014
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 24 object: 4
Theater AdvertisementsundatedEnglishScope and Contents
Two advertisements promoting performances by African American musicians and artists.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2012.277
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 24 object: 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 25 id261917
Lost Cause Ideology1955-1957EnglishScope 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
Accomplishments1907-1979 and undatedScope 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 Institute1907Scope and Contents
The booklet describes the history and curricula of Hampton Institute, now Hampton University.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2011.329
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 26 object: 2
Jubilee Singers' Flyers1925 and undatedScope and Contents
The multiple brochures feature African American jubilee singers and performers.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2010. 018-020
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 26 object: 3
Hampton Institute Negro Historical Society Brochure1940Scope and Contents
This brochure is for the Negro History Society of the Hampton Institute and their presentation of singer Dorothy Maynor.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2011.241
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 26 object: 4
The Great American Negro Calendar1971Scope and Contents
This calendar features the stories of famous African American inventors, politicians, and scholars.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2009.389
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 26 object: 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 id261931
The Civil Rights Movement1935-1980 and undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 object: 1 id261932
Arthur H. Vandenberg Election Flyer1935Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.20120.248
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 27 object: 2 id261984
Public Service and National Social Welfare Comic Strips1949-1957Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.111
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 object: 3
"I saw Negro Votes Peddled"1950 NovemberEnglishScope 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 UprisingsundatedScope and Contents
This folder includes a pamphlet published by the Independent Socialist Club promoting the black power movement.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2011.468
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 object: 1 id261932
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 id261998
The Communist Stance on Civil Rights1947 - 1975 and undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 object: 1 id261999
Aims of Red Pro-Negro Plot1928Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2007.020
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 28 object: 2 id262006
1961
Scope and Contents
This flyier shows a picture of Martin Luther
King
, 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.467
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 object: 3 id262007
"To the Negroes of America"1967Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.468
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 object: 4 id262010
"We Don't Want Another Boston in Cleveland," Integration StruggleundatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.468
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 object: 5
"Unity or Else…"undatedEnglishScope and Contents
A pamphlet from the Communist Party of California.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 28 object: 1 id261999
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 id261992
Black Labor and Unions1942-1987 and undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 object: 1
"The Genocide Pact"1954 March 20EnglishScope 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 1965EnglishScope 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 PamphletundatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.467
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 object: 4
"Come Out Swinging"undatedEnglishScope and Contents
A Labor Education Fund pamphlet.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 object: 5 id261997
"You Cannot Kill the Working Class" PamphletundatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.467
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 29 object: 1
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Board Games and Card Games1896-1994 and undatedEnglishScope 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 Cards1896EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2012.247
- Mixed Materials Artifacts Box 521 UA 2008.032
Negro Hero Playing Cards (UA 2008.032)undatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2008.032
- Mixed Materials Artifact: 1 id262244
Blacks and Whites1970EnglishScope 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
Welfare1978EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2009.331
- Mixed Materials Artifact: 3 id262248
Forty Famous Black Americans1988EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2009.235
- Mixed Materials Artifact: 4 id262250
Journey to the Muthuland1994EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.002
- Mixed Materials Artifact: 5 id262252
Snake EyesundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.008
- Mixed Materials Artifact: 6 id262254
FundAundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.189
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 30
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 32
African American Cards and Valentines1910-1920EnglishScope 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 Postcards1910-1930EnglishScope 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 Families1880-1920EnglishScope 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 Covers1929-2004EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAll videos contained herein originated from Acc.2010.495.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 1
Hallelujah!1929EnglishScope 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 World1963EnglishScope and Contents
This fFilm features gang life in Harlem, New York.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 3
Cotton Comes to Harlem1970EnglishScope 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
Shaft1971EnglishScope and Contents
The film features a Harlem private eye hired to save teenagers kidnapped by the Mafia.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 5
Super Fly1972EnglishScope 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 Jones1973EnglishScope and Contents
The film features Cleopatra Jones, drug traffickers' deadliest enemy.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 7
Enter the Dragon1973EnglishScope 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 Scream1973EnglishScope and Contents
This film features Dracula's bloodbrother, Blacula.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 9
The Spook Who Sat by the Door1973EnglishScope 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 Jones1974EnglishScope 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 Mother1974EnglishScope and Contents
This fFilm features two ex-Vietnam soldiers who pursue the elite drug dealing industries.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 12
Soul Vengeance1975EnglishScope 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 Heat1976EnglishScope and Contents
The f Film features black drug dealers, mobsters, and undercover cops.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 14
The Human Tornado (Dolemite II)1976EnglishScope 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 Law1979EnglishScope 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 Grandfather1979EnglishScope 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 21983EnglishScope and Contents
This film features a man who seeks revenge on his girlfriend's killer.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 18
Action Jackson1988EnglishScope 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 Go1994EnglishScope 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 Mack1995EnglishScope 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 Fever1998EnglishScope 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
Blade1998EnglishScope 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 II2002EnglishScope and Contents
The fFilm features a vampire slayer who fights to save humanity.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 24
Leprechaun, Back 2 The Hood2003EnglishScope 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 Trinity2004EnglishScope 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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 object: 1
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Blaxploitation CinemaEnglish
- Mixed Materials Oversize_Folder: 1
Cinema PostersEnglishProcessing Information
Acc. 2014.194
- Mixed Materials Oversize_Folder: 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 1
Artcirca 1778EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2012.187
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 2
AdvertisementundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.761
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Publications1883EnglishScope and Contents
Iron
King
Cook Calendar. This calendar features a scene in which white settlers shot Native Americans while hiding behind a large iron
king stove.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2012.430
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 4 id262140
American Indian Oil Painting Postcards1949EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.033
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 5 id262139
Native American Postcards1900-1960EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.110
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 6 id262141
Native American and Southwestern U.S. Postcards1940-1960EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2008.159
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id262142
Famous Indian Chiefs Souvenir Folder PostcardsundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.090
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id262143
American Indian Life Souvenir Folder PostcardsundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2012.236
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 9
Native American Trading Cards1879 and undatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.041
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 10
"Red Indian" Trading CardsundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionThe 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 CardsundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2009.181
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 11
American Indian Chiefs Strip CardsundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2008.160
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12
Native American Collector's CardsundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.053
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 folder: 13
Indian Tribe Bridge Tally CardsundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.262
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14
Wild West Gum cardsJohn H. Dockman and Son..1 Linear Feet 1 legal size folderCirca 1910Scope 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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1
Trading Cards1870-1890 and undatedEnglish
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1 object: 1
Paragon Dried Beef Advertisements1870EnglishScope and Contents
The Paragon Beef trading cards include negative images of Chinese men with long braids and stereotypical straw hats.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAcc.2009.063
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1 object: 2
Advertising Cards1880-1890EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2009.321
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1 object: 3
Trading CardsundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2009.316
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1 object: 4
Trading CardsundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.040
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 1 object: 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 2
PostcardsundatedEnglish
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2 object: 1
Fourth of July PostcardundatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.138
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 2 object: 2
A Chinatown Gentleman, San Francisco, CaliforniaundatedEnglishImmediate Source of Acquisition
Acc.2007.080
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 2 object: 3
All Kinds of Little TroublesundatedEnglishImmediate Source of Acquisition
Acc.2009.321
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2 object: 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 3 id261925
Mutt and Jeff Comic Strip1946Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2010.112
- Mixed Materials Artifact: 7 id262255
Chi-Chi Fortune Tellers1915Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.648
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id262123
Jewish Life in Many Lands Trading CardsundatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.051
- Mixed Materials Artifact: 8 id262259
Hajj Fun Game2005Scope 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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 5
A Cuban Wet Nursecirca 1917EnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2008.094
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 6 id261907
KKK Publications1921-1945 and undatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.466
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 7 id261908
KKK Meeting Minutes1931-1936Scope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.618
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 8
Anti-KKK Publications1980 and undatedEnglishScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.467
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9
Anti-Immigration PublicationsundatedEnglish
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 9 object: 1 id261928
"Should Foreign Emigration be Encouraged or Restricted, if Either, How" ManuscriptundatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2012.142
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 9 object: 2 id261930
"Order of United American Mechanics"undatedScope 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 AcquisitionAcc.2011.587
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 folder: 9 object: 1 id261928
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10 id262307
Anti-Discrimination Ink BlottersundatedScope and Contents
Cards with images and phrases that promote racial and religious equality.