Selected African Holdings

Selected African Holdings

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Selected items with African Origination


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NMAAHC: National Museum of African American History and Culture · 1911

August 1911 issue of The Crisis Magazine. There is a double-lined rectangular border on the cover. The center of the cover features a portrait illustration of a woman. It is …


NMAAHC: National Museum of African American History and Culture · 1845

This letter was written in Old Calabar, Nigeria by King Eyo Honesty II to Captain William Turner in Liverpool, England. The relationship between Eyo and Captain Turner developed as a …


NMAAHC: National Museum of African American History and Culture · 1843

This letter was written in Old Calabar, Nigeria by King Eyo Honesty II to Captain William Turner in Liverpool, England. The relationship between Eyo and Captain Turner developed as a …


NMAAHC: National Museum of African American History and Culture · 1842

This letter was written in Old Calabar, Nigeria by King Eyo Honesty II to Captain William Turner in Liverpool, England. The relationship between Eyo and Captain Turner developed as a …


NMAAHC: National Museum of African American History and Culture · 1842

This letter was written in Old Calabar, Nigeria by King Eyo Honesty II to a British captain. Eyo writes about an exchange of oil and empty casks – a trading …


NMAAHC: National Museum of African American History and Culture · 1842

Two article clippings with an engraved color image. The article (a) describes, from the Western European perspective of Presbyterian missionary, Hugh Goldie, the funeral ceremonies, termed "Devil-making," for the late …


NMAAHC: National Museum of African American History and Culture · 1842

This letter was written in Old Calabar, Nigeria by King Eyamba V to Captain William Turner in Liverpool, England. The relationship between Eyamba and Captain Turner developed as a result …


NMAAHC: National Museum of African American History and Culture · 1842

This letter was written in Old Calabar, Nigeria by King Eyamba V to Captain William Turner in Liverpool, England. The relationship between Eyamba and Captain Turner developed as a result …


NMAAHC: National Museum of African American History and Culture · 1842

This letter was written in Freetown, Sierra Leone, May 8th, 1842 by Joseph May to a Mrs. Mary Denham in London, England. From the Wesleyan Mission House, May writes of …


NMAAHC: National Museum of African American History and Culture · 1841

A first edition manuscript of John Quincy Adam’s arguments before United States Supreme Court in the trial United States v. Schooner Amistad, 1841. The Octavo pamphlet-manuscript is constructed of handstitched …