Items

Explore individual items gathered for collections and exhibits centered around particular themes, people, places, or events.

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  Washington Vocational School: Power Laundering Class

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One interior view of two young women operating a piece of machinery on fabrics, one table with stacks of fabrics on the top left, one blackboard on the top right.
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  Jefferson School: Play Yard

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One exterior view of boys standing in groups and roughhousing each other in a courtyard surrounded by a wall, one wood paneling on the top left, one wood paneling on the right.
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  Public Schools Stadium Program: 'Colored' Playground Festival

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One view of a group of people standing in and one marching band walking on a field in one stadium, bleachers on the top and the bottom left, the number "18192" on the bottom right.
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  Programs: Urban League - WPA Day Nursery ('Colored')

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One interior view of a group of children lying down on sleeping cots on the floor of a classroom, one closed doorway visible on the top left.
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  Washington Vocational School: Cosmetology

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One interior view of one young woman using a hairdresser tool on the hair of a girl in front of a row of windows set on a worktable, the number "10" on the top left, the young woman and girl sitting on the bottom right.
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  Southeast Corner of Jefferson Avenue and Lawton Street

  Black and white photo showing an intersection in Mill Creek Valley. Pictured are the "De Luxe Recreation Parlor" and the "Rainbow Nite Club."
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  Vashon High School: Graduate Class of Hair Dressing Department - 'Colored' Vocational School

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One view of a group of people sitting and standing in two rows, one man on the left, one blackboard on the right.
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  Jamieson North From Bancroft

  Black and white photo of a construction site with mounds of dirt everywhere. There are workers in the background working on a tree. There are multiple vehicles.
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  Dr. J. Owen Blache Wearing a Lab Coat at a Desk

  Horizontal, black and white portrait showing an African American man wearing a lab coat and sitting at a desk. A variety of books and papers cover the top of the desk. Dr. J. Owen Blache (1900-1964) attended medical school at Howard University and, following an internship, was trained as a pathologist at Homer G. Phillips Hospital. After a stint in the army from 1942-45, he returned to Homer G. Phillips where he was made Director of Pathology, a position he held for the rest of his career.
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  Staff At Homer G. Phillips Hospital

  Horizontal, black and white group portrait showing doctors, nurses, and other staff at Homer G. Phillips Hospital. The group of African Americans is posed on the steps of a grand building, presumably the steps of the hospital. Several of the men are wearing lab coats, and several of the women are wearing nurse's uniforms.
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  Homer G. Phillips Hospital, 2000 North Whittier Street

  Black and white photo of the Homer G. Phillips hospital. The road in front of the hospital is Whittier and is full of cars.
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  Richard A. Martin, Jr. Age Six

  Vertical copy photograph showing a black and white photograph of Richard A. Martin Jr. at six years old. The photograph was taken while he performed in "Showboat" at the St. Louis Municipal Opera in Forest Park (Muny).
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  Washington Vocational School: Clothes Pressing Class

  Vertical, black and white photograph. One interior view of one young man operating a piece of machinery on fabrics, the machine on the left, the young man standing on the right.
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  Buildings: Peoples Finance Building, Market Street and South Jefferson Avenue

  Horizontal, black and white Image of the Peoples Finance Building, located at Market St and S Jefferson Ave in downtown St. Louis.
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  Famous Cleaning and Dyeing Company Interior, 322 North Sixth Street

  Photograph of the inside of Famous Cleaning and Dyeing Company. On the left side of the image there are men working at the counters and several others in front of the counters. There are several hats on the front counter. The walls behind the men at the counters is mirrored. There is a woman at the counter on the right side of the image.
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  Dedication Of Homer G. Phillips Hospital

  Black and white photo of a crowd of people standing in front of the hospital with flags and streamers all around.
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  Principal Clarence T. Hunter Seated at His Desk

  Horizontal, black and white photograph showing an African American man wearing a three-piece suit and seated at a roll-top desk. Large windows can be seen behind him. A partially visible nameplate reads: "T. Hunter, principal." A handwritten caption on the back reads: "2nd from left, Green Hunter." This caption was likely written on the wrong photograph. Green Hunter was Clarence Hunter's father. Clarence Hunter was a lifelong educator and administrator with the St. Louis Public Schools system, serving as principal of Banneker School and Sumner High School.
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  Cole School: Kindergarten Children

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One view of six children reading books and sitting around a round table, a group of children sitting at five square tables on the top left.
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  Pythian Hall at 3507 Pine Street

  Black and white photo showing a white plastered building with a brick sides. The front door has "Pythian Hall" written on the glass. The front street has cars parked along the street. There is a For Sale sign in front of the building.
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  Sumner High School: Faculty

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One exterior view of men and women sitting and standing in six rows on stairs in front of a doorway, one drainpipe visible on the top left.
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  Washington Vocational School: Automobile Mechanics

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One view of a group of boys and men operating various tools and equipment on machinery and automobiles in a garage, two boys sitting down in two desks and reading books on the left, one boy standing by a automobile on the right.
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  Sumner High School: Boy Singing Solo

  Vertical, black and white photograph. One interior view of one young man wearing robes and standing behind a microphone, the number "13" on the bottom left, curtains on the right.
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  Dumas School: General View of May Festival

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One view of a group of people sitting and standing on a lawn in front of a line of buildings, a group of girls holding the ribbons of and walking around a maypole on the left.
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  Turner School: Deaf Pupils

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One view of a group of children sitting down at desks and holding various writing materials, one calendar on the left, one woman sitting beside a girl on the right.
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  Sumner High School: Track

  Horizontal, black and white photograph. One exterior view of three men wearing suits and a group of young men wearing gym clothes and sitting in six rows in bleachers, one building behind the bleachers on the top left.