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Photograph of Florence and Readus Fletcher, a Rondo mother and son, taken by Gordon Parks at Esther Peake Studios located in Rondo.

Marian Brown-Moore contributed this family photograph. Pictured are mother and father William and Laura Brown, along with Marian and sibling.

Photograph portrays Archie Anderson Senior on the right and Ira Rawls on the left in front of the housing development. Archie Anderson, Sr. was the secretary of the project at Twin City Negro Development Co.; Rawls was the president.

A picture of Readus and Florence Fletcher as children

Photograph of Queen of Snow crowning Queen of Hallie Q Brown, Dee Dee Ray (Lewis), at the Hallie Q Brown Center in 1963 at the Winter Carnival.

Photograph of school children featuring the contributor's mother, Mary Toliver Jones.

In 1948, eight young students from St. James Church participated in a two-week farm visit with a family in Cherry Grove, MN. The trip was sponsored by the Minnesota Council of Churches. This photograph was originally posted in the St. Paul Dispatch,…

Family photographs belonging to the contributor, many taken before he was born. A few relate to the early Black community on St. Anthony overlooking where I-94 currently exists.

Photo of family momentos with Sterling Vincent Owens, Sr. and Wanda Marie Piper Owens (1942); Sterling Owens, Sr., Director of St. Paul Urban League.

Newspaper clipping featuring Robert Archie Jones. Jones was an advertising salesman with the St. Paul Recorder and Minneapolis Spokesman.  Left to right: Marion Carol (13), Roberta Alyee (15), Robert A. Jones, Jr. (9), Robert A. Jones, Mrs. Jones…