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America Before Independence 1637/1776
A gouache on paper painting titled America Before Independence by Nicha Sursock. This is part of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Peter Stuyvesant and Richard Nicholls (1664) in New Amsterdam, Sachem Sassacus and...
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Penny Black & Penny Red Postage Stamps
Two British postage stamps bearing the portrait of Queen Victoria (reign 1837-1901). The Penny Black was the world's first postage stamp and issued from May 1840. As it was difficult to see an obliteration stamp (postmark) against a black...
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Italian Colonial Postage Stamps
Postage stamps issued by Italy for its various African colonies between 1920 and 1941. (Private Collection)
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Graziani in Mogadishu
Italian Fascist Marshal Rodolfo Graziani (1882-1955) visiting Mogadishu as viceroy of Italian East Africa (18 February 1937). Rodolfo Graziani was one of the main perpetrators of the brutalities of Italian colonialism, due to his role in...
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The First Colony, Jamestown 1607
A gouache on paper painting titled The First Colony, Jamestown 1607 by Nicha Sursock. This is the first of a series of 43 works representing the history of the USA. Foreground, from left to right: Lord Baltimore, Baron De la Warr, Opechancanough...
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Penny Black Envelope
An envelope with a Penny Black stamp attached. The first postage stamp, the Penny Black was introduced in Britain in May 1840.
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Abaché and Kossola, c. 1914 - Two Survivors of Clotilda and Founders of Africatown
Abaché and Kossola, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. Both Abaché, also known as Clara Turner, and Kossola, also known as Cudjo Lewis, were originally from present-day Benin, where they...
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Oluale Kossola (Cudjo Lewis), c. 1914 - Survivor of the Clotilda and a Founder of Africatown
Oluale Kossola, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. Kossola (c. 1841-1935), later known as Cudjo Lewis, a Yoruba man of what is now Benin, was abducted by slavers in April 1860 and secretly...
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Wreckage of the Slave Ship Clotilda, c. 1914
Wreckage of the slave ship Clotilda, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. The "wreckage," as pictured here, would be the dark line of wood appearing out of the water, not the boat on shore...
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Apotheosis by Giovanni Guida
A painting on canvas titled Apotheosis by the Italian artist Giovanni Guida (born 1992). The work measures 50 x 70 cm and is an example of the grattage technique.
