Diaspora Collection

The Arch of Titus in Rome, 1839. Creator: Constantin Hansen
The Arch of Titus in Rome, 1839

Pinback button promoting All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party, after 1958
The All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party, a socialist political party founded by Kwame Nkrumah in 1968, expanded to the United States in 1972

Pinback button promoting African Liberation Day, 1977. Creator: Unknown
The All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party, a socialist political party founded by Kwame Nkrumah in 1968, expanded to the United States in 1972

Banjo made in the style of William Esperance Boucher, Jr. ca. 1850s. Creator: Unknown
Banjo made in the style of William Esperance Boucher, Jr. (circa 1850s). The banjo has a circular head, with a tension head pulled tight across the front

Wooden drum used on the Sea Islands, South Carolina, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
A wooden drum covered with stretched leather hide that has been attached to drum body with nine wooden pegs. Two carved, anthropomorphized face motifs are on opposite sides of the upper half of

String of cowrie shells, 1800 - 1968. Creator: Unknown
A string of cowrie shells. There are sixty (60) tan and yellow colored cowrie shells on a string composed of multiple natural-colored strands twisted together

Necklace associated with the Boa Morte sisterhood of Cachoeira, 19th - 20th century
A 42-inch long gold-colored chain link necklace with no clasp. All of the links are approximately the same size and are slightly concave in shape. Each link has a visible soldered seam

Taguri Tatars of the Crimea, c1820s-30s. Creator: D. K. Bonatti (fl. 1720-80)
Taguri Tatars of the Crimea, from Costume dei... by Giulio Ferrario, c.1820s-30s (coloured engraving). the Tatars are a Turkic-speaking peoples living mainly in Russia and other Post-Soviet countries

Steerage passengers on an Atlantic steamer bound for America, c1850. Engraving. (Colorised black and white print)

British emigrants on their way to America, 1870
British emigrants on their way to America as steerage passengers. From The Graphic, London, March 1870. Wood engraving

Taking the pulse of a sick Irish emigrant on board ship, (1840s) c1890
Taking the pulse of a sick Irish emigrant on board ship bound for North America during the potato famine of the 1840s, c1890. Wood engraving

Queenstown / Cobh, harbour for Cork City
Queenstown/Cobh, the harbour for Cork City. Between 1845 and 1860 above 2.5 million people emigrated from Ireland through Cobh. Also last port of call the SS Titanic

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