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Picture of Bob Minnick and Mary Alice, early pioneers with the Riley House & Museum.
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Portrait of Ida S. Baker, a prominent teacher and administrator in Lee County, Florida.
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Portrait of Charlie and Sadie Holiday. Charlie was a Tuskegee Airman in the Second World War.
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Photograph of Charlie and Mary Payne, husband and wife. The couple raised their family in the Lake Hall area of Tallahassee, Florida. They owned two stores, rented fishing boats, and farmed their own land.
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Newspaper clipping featuring Mrs. Harold D. Payne, a volunteer at the Tallahassee United Service Organizations club and a Leon County school teacher.
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Group photo of four African American women of various ages.
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Photograph of Mary Pemberton's 90th birthday party.
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Newspaper articles on elderly, notable African American Tallahassee community members. One article is about 'Aunt Susie' Hartfield, who was born to slaves and began attending school for the first time at 101-years-old to learn how to write. The other is about the death of Leon County's oldest citizen, Dan "Uncle Bud" Brown, the son of newly freed slaves. Attached to the clippings are handwritten notes by Althemese Barnes, with brief updates on her research progress.
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Newspaper clipping on the kidnapping of Geraldine Givens and the subsequent capture of her abductor, 20-year-old Andrew Jackson, Jr..
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Newspaper clipping featuring Rosa Lee Gibson, longtime Tallahassee resident and the daughter of an enslaved person, and Helen Grissett, director of the Tallahassee Museum. The two women explain soap making and how they learned it. Gibson explains that her mother, who was born during slavery, taught her the craft. The two women mention plans to display the practice during a Farm Day at the museum.