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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…

"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.