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Charcoal portrait of African American woman. She is wearing a dark colored dress with a high ruffled neck. This portrait from around the 1900s.

Charcoal portrait of two young boys. The boy on the left appears to be younger, and is wearing a white shirt and a collared jacket. The boy on the right is wearing a button down shirt and a buttoned jacket.

Charcoal portrait of a man and woman in formal dress. The man is on the left, wearing a black suit. The woman is on the right and slightly in front of the man, with a fashionable hairstyle decorated with a bow and a neckbow as well.

Topsy-turvy doll. Though not from the Ozarks, representative of a style of doll popularized in areas where Black children and White children interacted. Traditionally one side would be White and one would be Black, thusly allowing children to play…

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"That's Drucella Berry, that's my aunt. She was born around 1908 in Ash Grove..that's my dad's oldest sister. My grandma Berry was married in 1907 and a year later they had Drucella."

"That's some of the series of the Glenn Johnson pictures...[he's] in the middle"

Unknown candid photos of men working as Pullman Porters and on the railroads, from the collection of Glenn Johnson.
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