Advertising trade cards that contain stereotypically racist images of African Americans. The cards are for a clothier. The folder also contains an advertisement for Jos. J. Foley, Tailor, Boston MA, which has a November 1908 calendar alongside an illustration of African American children swinging and climbing trees.

This folder contains multiple advertising cards. The items advertised include soaps, clothing, and household goods. The cards contain stereotypical images of African Americans.

This folder contains advertising cards that depict African Americans in a negative light. Common features are large lips and flouncy outfits. The sketches on the cards often have little to do with the product being advertised.

Stereotypical black representations on three advertising trade cards. The cards for pancake batter and clothes depict African Americans with large eyes and mouths along with other stereotypical features.

Advertising cards for a clothier. The cards depict an African American man trying to command and then falling off a horse-drawn wagon.

Advertisement card for Old Virginia Cheroots from the American Tobacco Company. The advertisement has a sketch of an African American man.

This folder contains an advertising label for Old Black Joe’s blackeyed peas. Illustrated on the label is an elderly black man with a white beard.

This sketch is an preliminary painting of "The Connoisseurs", a popular advertising image for Cream of Wheat. The painting features a black man in a chef’s hat, teaching a child about the taste and health benefits of cream of wheat.

This souvenir features common images of African Americans in the south, including picking cotton, eating watermelon, and playing the fiddle.

Included are published items like travel guides, joke books, song books, story books, programs and handbills, comic strips, a yearbook, election fliers, political publications, pamphlets and calendars.

The booklet describes the history and curricula of Hampton Institute, now Hampton University.

The multiple brochures feature African American jubilee singers and performers.

This brochure is for the Negro History Society of the Hampton Institute and their presentation of singer Dorothy Maynor.

This calendar features the stories of famous African American inventors, politicians, and scholars.

Reprint of an article from the American Legion magazine concerns the buying of Negro votes.

A booklet of twenty minor dramas, extravaganzas, and farces for the amateur stage. The plays contain stereotypical typecasting of African Americans.

A story book entitled “The Ten Little Niggers,” with stereotypical illustrations. The layout of the book is similar to that of “Ten Little Indians.”

This songbook features stereotypical illustrations of African Americans including pompous dresses and large lips.

This joke book features jokes that promote racism and a negative view of African Americans. The jokes are also anti-immigration and misogynistic.

A pamphlet from the Communist Party of California.

A Labor Education Fund pamphlet.

An editorial from the Monroe, La. Morning World, concerns the author's fears that the United Nations is secretly a Communist plot.

A flyer created by the Bay Area Revoluntionary Union concerning streets that are still occupied by the National Guard.

52 playing cards from the game "In Dixie-Land". Copyrighted 1896, L.D. Baldwin, by The Fireside Game Co. The instructions are missing.

This folder contains a set of playing cards. The cards have a sketch and a brief biological summary of influential African American inventors, politicians, musicians, and activists. Rules for the game are included.