James Weldon Johnson Collection

Images from the Bonnie and Semoura Clark Black Vaudeville Collection (Call Number: JWJ MSS 15); for related images see "Ruckus! American Entertainments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"

Display placards promoting fashions and hairstyles for African American women.  (JWJ MSS 47)

Pen-and-Ink drawings of the so-called Amistad prisoners, Africans, who,  after being abducted from their homeland, revolted and took control of the slave ship transporting them, killing many crew members. The drawings were made by New Haven resident William H. Townsend, while the captives were awaiting trial. More information and images of the complete collection can be found in the Beinecke's Digital Library: Drawings of Amistad Prisoners

Peter Pan: The Pillow Dance, by John Hassall 1907 ***

Rent party cards from the Langston Hughes Papers (JWJ MSS 26)

Play de Blues / Misery -- Image by Aaron Douglas, poem by Langston Hughes, from Six Poems, [1926]. (detail)

Modernist Little Magazines & Poetry Reviews Little Review, September 1917 *** Blast, June 20, 1914 (more images from this issue)