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Transit pass for St. Louis Public Service Company depicting Cab Calloway

3 pp

Transit pass for the St. Louis Public Service Company depicting Cab Calloway. The pass features information about the 9th Annual Pine St. Y Circus featuring Cab Calloway. The pass is a cream and orange-colored pass with additional text and a graphic of Cab Calloway off-center left.

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Transit pass for St. Louis Public Service Company depicting Duke Ellington

2 pp

Transit pass for the St. Louis Public Service Company depicting Duke Ellington. The pass features information about the Y Camp Benefit Circus featuring Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra. The pass is half-cream colored, half-green web patterned pass with additional text and a graphic of Duke Ellington on left.

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Transit pass for St. Louis Public Service Company featuring Street Y Circus

2 pp

Transit pass for the St. Louis Public Service Company depicting the 10th Annual Pine St. Y Circus featuring Count Basie. The pass is a cream and green-colored pass with additional text with information about the event.

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Transparencies of National Council for Black Studies images and information

H x W: 10 1/16 x 12 1/16 in. (25.6 x 30.6 cm)

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Transportation Reports

Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Travel Permit for the US Military Duty Train "Mozart"

2 pp

Typed "Mozart" Travel Permit for Hall Johnson issued by Harry R. Swanson, U.S. Civilian Chief of the Travel Branch. The permit allows Hall Johnson to travel on the US Military Duty Train "Mozart" to or from Vienna from September 28th, 1951 to October 8th, 1951. The document is double sided. The front side has Hall Johnson's information, the back side has a list of rules relating to travel on the "

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Travel bag used by Tommie Smith for the 1968 Olympics

The navy bag has rounded corners on the top. The front panel of the bag and the back panel of the bag are trimmed in white. There is a metal zipper going along the top center of the bag. The zipper pull reads [TALON] and has vertical grooved lines. On the front of the bag and the back of the bag there are two metal rings. There is a white plastic handle connected to them. There is text screen-prin

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Travel case used by Dinah Washington

7 pp

Tan travel case used by Dinah Washington. The case is made from tan leather and fiberboard with a leather wrapped handle. The lid is hinged and fastens with two (2) metal pressure clips that each lock separately. A rectangular metal plate is adhered at the opening above the handle with raised text reading "Ace" and an airplane in flight to the right of the text. The bottom has four (4) rounded met

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Travel guide published by the Afro-American

15 pp

A travel guide published by the Afro-American Newspaper, Baltimore. This is a very rare guide to hotels and guest houses for African-Americans during the Jim Crow era, stamped for “The Allen Hotel, Kentucky’s finest hotel for colored guests,” in Louisville, KY. The guide unfolds to 17x21.5" map of the eastern half of the U.S. indicating places to stay and including listings in Canada, Hawaii, Mexi

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Travel wardrobe trunk used by Cab Calloway

14 pp

Drawers 1-6 (right, top to bottom): Drawers 1-6 from a Herkert & Meisel Professional H&M Trunk used by Cab Calloway. The front panels of the six stacked drawers on the right are covered with yellowed white, faux leather finished fabric and have two, drop bail pull handles with a fleur-de-lis pattern and a nickel finish. Aech drawer has nickel plated edges along the top, left, and right sides of th

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Traveling trunk used by George Thompson Garrison in the Civil War

5 pp

A traveling trunk owned by George Thompson Garrison while serving as an officer with the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. The wood, leather bound trunk is embossed throughout with four rows of brass rivets along the front, top and back of the base and lid. The leather is also stitched along the edges and lip of the trunk. Two metal buckles attached to leather straps are on the left and right

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Tray for dresser set owned by Lena Horne

3 pp

This black tray is rectangular with a shallow rim. The tray is made of a hard cardboard that is covered with black paper stamped to imitate leather. The bottom is lined with a detachable lightly padded rectangle covered in black velvet. There are numerous holes through this surface, possibly from earring posts.

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