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Percy Glascoe's Plantation Orchestra
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Lockett Family of Macon, Georgia
#BlackHistoryMonth2024 #TellTheTruthTuesday #HBCUCollectedTreasures #LincolnUniversityPA #HistoricDrip The #LockettFamilyCollection cont...
Philip J. Merrill
Feb 13, 2024
OTD: The Oblate Sisters of Providence
#OTD: The #OblateSistersofProvidence was founded in Baltimore on July 2, 1829 by #MotherMaryElizabethLange and #RevJamesHectorJoubert....
Philip J. Merrill
Jul 2, 2023
Pride Month 2023: Detroit Red
#PrideMonth2023 Officially designated in 2000 by #PresidentBillClinton as #GayAndLesbianPrideMonth in recognition of the #StonewallRiots...
Philip J. Merrill
Jun 1, 2023
Women's History Month: Black Servitude
#BlackHistoryisEverywhere #NegroHistoryDetective #ArtifactualJourney #EasternShoreMaryland Courtesy of Nanny Jack & Co Archives
Philip J. Merrill
Mar 16, 2023
Women's History Month: Bessie Anderson, Black Baltimore Educator
#WomensHistoryMonth2023 #ColoredTrainingSchool (now #CoppinStateCollege)- then located at #DolphinStreet and #PennsylvaniaAvenue...
Philip J. Merrill
Mar 3, 2023
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Founder's Day
#OTD #AlphaPhiAlphaFraternityInc was founded-December 4, 1906 116 years ago #CornellUniversity #IthacaNewYork #TheSevenJewels #DivineNine...
Philip J. Merrill
Dec 4, 2022
National Savings Day
#NationalSavingsDay2022 Created by #CapitalOneBank in 2017 to encourage people to establish savings goals #FinancialLiteracy...
Philip J. Merrill
Oct 12, 2022
National Photography Day: Hooks Brothers
#NationalPhotographyDay #NationalBlackBusinessMonth #BlackMemphis #HooksBrothersPhotographers #BlackChurch #ClaybornTemple...
Philip J. Merrill
Aug 19, 2022
The Baltimore Red Book
#TellTheTruthTuesday #BlackBusinessMonth #BmoreHistory #OldWestBaltimore Y'all have heard of the #GreenBook or the #BlueBook (otherwise...
Philip J. Merrill
Aug 2, 2022
Artifactual Journey of Black North Carolina
#TintypeTuesday #BettyKoger #ForsythCountyNorthCarolina #ArtifactualJourney 🌍 🗺 Just a little preview for my...
Philip J. Merrill
Apr 5, 2022
Wisdom Wednesday: Passing for White
#WisdomWednesday #ArtifactualJourney #Passing Woulda, coulda, shoulda.... did they pass for white or were they proud of their ethnicity?...
Philip J. Merrill
Jan 12, 2022
Artifactual History
Even #HurricaneIda couldn't stop the start of this collaborative effort. #FriendsSchoolBaltimore and #NannyJackAndCoLLC are...
Philip J. Merrill
Sep 3, 2021
Chattin' with Cab Calloway's Grandson, Peter C. Brooks
#OldWestBaltimore #CabCalloway #HistoricDrip #ArtifactualJourney In #ArtifactualJourneyPodcast Episode 25, host Philip J. Merrill talks...
Veronica A. Carr
Mar 13, 2020
Upton Mansion
#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #HistoricDrip #OldWestBaltimore #UptonMansion-811 West Lanvale Street #ArtifactualJourney...
Philip J. Merrill
Feb 28, 2020
Stylin' Sepia Sisters
#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #ArtifactualJourney #HistoricDrip #OldWestBaltimore #DouglassHighSchoolClassof1924- 96 years ago!...
Veronica A. Carr
Feb 18, 2020
George Motley Lane
#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #GeorgeMotleyLane (1866-1912) #LaurelCemeteryBaltimore #Virginia #OldWestBaltimore #UnionBaptistChurch...
Philip J. Merrill
Feb 17, 2020
African American Businesses and Matchbook Covers
#BlackHistoryMonth2020 #BlackMatchbookCovers #AfricanAmericanBusinesses #JoeLouisPunch (#HenryGParksJr., #WillieAdams and #JoeLouis aka...
Philip J. Merrill
Feb 15, 2020
Moorish Science Temple of America
#OnThisDate #MoorishChristmas (January 8, 1926) #MoorishScienceTempleofAmerica #ProphetNobleDrewAli #NewarkNJ #Chicago #BaltimoreMD...
Philip J. Merrill
Jan 8, 2020
On This Date: Freedom Sunday Rally (November, 17, 1963)
#OnThisDate-November 17, 1963 (56 years ago) #FreedomSunday #SharpStreetMemorialUnitedMethodistChurch #NAACP #CivilRightsHistory...
Philip J. Merrill
Nov 17, 2019
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