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Calico Button Quilt
Quilt composed of small puckered circles of calico. Cream colored circles make framework for multi-patterned circles in diamond patterns.
Annotated Map of Lynchings
Annotated 1904 Missouri county map showing the dates of lynchings in Pierce City, Joplin and Springfield, MO.
Identification Interview Transcript #1
A transcript of the audio interview recorded with Father Moses Berry, identifying items OAAHM0001 through OAAHM0008.
Identification Interview Transcript #2
Interview with Fr. Moses Berry identifying items OAAHM0086-OAAHM0091.
Progress of a race; or, The remarkable advancement of the Afro-American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty, to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust
Cloth bound book. Binding in very poor condition. Some loose pages. Inscription on frontispiece. "Yours truly, W.H. Crogman"
Illustrated bible with apocrypha
Leather bound bible. Very poor binding condition. Embossed monogram on front cover, "C.G. Kelton" Inscription at top of title page, "C. G. Kelton."
Poems
Cloth bound book with pasted print of woman and flowers on cover. Very poor binding condition. Inscription on first page "Bossie a cow of the Murray Family died Jan 20th 1910"
"The United States of Lyncherdom"
In 1901, Missouri born author Mark Twain wrote an essay titled "The United States of Lyncherdom" in response to the Pierce City lynchings. He had intended the essay for publication, but decided it was too politically sensitive. The essay was finally…
The White Side of a Black Subject: Enlarged and Brought Down to Date : a Vindication of the Afro-American Race : from the Landing of Slaves at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, to the Present Time
Cloth bound book. Binding completely destroyed. All pages intact.
"At the scene of the lynching"
A drawing by Ralph Downing, published on April 16th 1903th in the Joplin Globe. The drawing shows the lynching of Thomas Gilyard.
Wooden icebox
Oak ice box.