Floor 13 — HIP IP Tower
Historical Stacks
Newspapers, magazines, prints, maps and documents — the memory of the movement, kept on the thirteenth floor.
Archive images
Pages, prints and photographs from the stacks.
Rumor — A Representative Colored American Newspaper
No. 5, September 4, 1880 · Frederick Douglass cover
The Colored American Magazine
July 1902 edition
“Front View of an Idol at Copan”
The Colored American, August 14, 1841
“Kidnapping” — letter to the Colored American
Madison, Ia., December 18, 1840 · John Carter
“The White Liners Were Here”
Harper’s Weekly, September 2, 1876
To the Republican Party in Oklahoma City
Black Dispatch editorial on Negro police
Black Panther editorial art
Quote from the essays of Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton
The Indians — piano forte sheet music
Henry Prentiss, Boston · deposited 1843
Float — Bronck’s Treaty with the Indians
Hudson-Fulton Celebration official post card No. 18
Bronck’s Treaty post card — back
1609–1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration souvenir
Cherokee Phoenix
New Echota, March 6, 1828 · Vol. I, No. 3
General Mourning
Satirical print, London, 1788
Iroquois Theater fire clippings
Oakland Tribune and wire reports, January 1904
Atlanta, Georgia, and Its Rebel Defences
Survey by 20th Corps engineers, September 1864
Car with built-in sink
Archival press photograph
101 Prominent Colored People
Portrait chart, 1890s
Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law
Lithograph, 1850
The Fifteenth Amendment
Celebrated May 19, 1870 · captioned by @WriterJessicaHolter
Post-office statistics: Free States vs. Slave States
Map table, U.S. census figures
Capitol Fashions for 1837
Political cartoon, 1837
Reynolds's Political Map of the United States
Free and slave states, 1850 census figures · 1856
Arrival of Prisoners
Point Lookout, Md. sketchbook · Black Union guards at the prisoners' camp
Barrel Jacket — “Petty Thief”
Point Lookout, Md. sketchbook
Sentinel riding a Rebel prisoner
Point Lookout, Md. sketchbook
Mounted Dakota Sioux Indian police
Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, 1896
The Poor Blacks Going to Their Settlement
Satirical print, London, January 12, 1787
Chronological Chart of American History
Tree-of-history lithograph, dedicated to the people of the United States
Slavery As It Exists in America / Slavery As It Exists in England
Pro-slavery lithograph, J. Haven, Boston, 1850
Sentinel at the tent — “What for you make all dat noise”
Point Lookout, Md. sketchbook
Sentinel and kneeling Rebel prisoner — “Pray for Abe Lincoln”
Point Lookout, Md. sketchbook · contains a racial slur in the original caption
A Sentinel accidentally shot by his Companion
Point Lookout, Md. sketchbook · contains a racial slur in the original caption
Excise in Triumph
British satirical engraving, March 14, 1733
Arms of Liberty and Slavery
John Wilkes broadside, King's-Bench Prison, June 18, 1768
French Liberty / British Slavery
James Gillray, published by H. Humphrey, London, December 21, 1792
The C.I.O. and Negro Labor
By Ernest Calloway · page 327
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Documents (PDF)
Full documents you can open and read.
- Open PDF
The Colored American Magazine — full issue
Complete scanned issue · 80 pages
- Open PDF
Indian Slavery in Colonial America
Full book scan · 386 pages
- Open PDF
News and Observer, 1900
Newspaper page · 1 page
- Open PDF
The Indians — sheet music (copy 1)
Library scan · 1 page
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The Indians — sheet music (copy 2)
Library scan · 1 page
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Film
Moving pictures from the stacks.
Archive clip, August 22, 2025
Short film, about 16 seconds
5mike5
Archive film, about 10 minutes
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