Louisa, a Slave Nurse, ca. 1858
With infant H. E. Hayward
Ambrotype
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Detail of the bill of sale for Louisa, April 30, 1858
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Jewish Family, ca. 1904
Photograph by Louis Block
Block Brothers Studio Collection
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Keokuk, 1847
Daguerreotype by Thomas M. Easterly
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CCRC protest against segregated lunch counters at Stix, Baer and Fuller department store, downtown St. Louis, 1944
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Iron neck and ankle shackles, c. 1835
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Kate Richards O'Hare addresses crowd in downtown St. Louis on National Suffrage Day, May 2, 1916. Photograph by St. Louis Times.
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Ivory Perry lying down in front of a car during
a protest against police brutality, 1965 Photograph by Lester Linck, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
© 1965, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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General John C. Frémont, 1867
Oil on canvas by Guiseppe Fagnani
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Ballard
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Last Sale of Slaves 1860, 1870
Oil on canvas by Thomas S. Noble
Gift of the children of Thomas S. Noble
NOTE: After the original Last Sale of Slaves was lost in a fire, Noble painted this version
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Out of Work, 1935
Aimee Schweig
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