Slavery; Lynching; Hanging; Secession; Christmas; Mississippi; Hinds County (Miss.)
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her cousin, N. H. Boyd, in Jackson, Mississippi, regarding Christmas happenings and other family news. Boyd mentions a postponed hanging of two slaves, one for killing an overseer and one for...
The brown ears and glass eyes of this dog are characteristic of the earliest dogs made. This particular Nipper stood in the window of the O.K. Houck Piano Co. in Memphis. When "Father of the Blues" W.C. Handy was in good favor with Houck, Handy's...
"Circa 1911
The auto-player piano features a vacuum system that pushes a rod up into a part of the piano action to send each hammer to the strings, plus more pneumatics to drive the motor, activate the sustain pedal, and in some cases control the...
African Americans Songs and music. 1911-1920. United States ; World War, 1914-1918 Songs and music. United States ; Minstrel music. Songs and music. ; Popular music ; African American soldiers