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View of Varner Creek that leads to Brazos River
The second picture (without signage) is the view from the balcony of the second floor of the Main House.
Timeline of people who lived in and occupied the Varner-Hogg plantation site
Timeline found inside the exhibition house.
View of the interior of the Main House at Varner-Hogg plantation site
The original furnishings have been removed and stored separately.
Emerson Luis Ramos
Emerson Luis Ramos in Roundtable 1: Preserving and telling histories of diasporic communities
Jeffrey Fleisher
Jeffrey Fleisher in Roundtable 2: What role(s) should scholars play?
Molly Morgan
Molly Morgan in Roundtable 3: Public history at museums and historic sites
Kenneth Bilby
Kenneth Bilby in Roundtable 2: What role(s) should scholars play?
Samuel Acquaah
Samuel Acquaah in Roundtable 3: Public history at museums and historic sites
Portia Hopkins
Portia Hopkins in Roundtable 3: Public history at museums and historic sites
James Sidbury
James Sidbury in Roundtable 1: Preserving and telling histories of diasporic communities
Colonel Wallace Sterling
Colonel Wallace Sterling in Roundtable 1: Preserving and telling histories of diasporic communities
Chief Michael Grizzle
Chief Michael Grizzle in Roundtable 1: Preserving and telling histories of diasporic communities
Sam Collins
Sam Collins in Roundtable 1: Preserving and telling histories of diasporic communities
Monica Lima
Monica Lima in Roundtable 2: What role(s) should scholars play?
Miriam Bondim
Miriam Bondim in Roundtable 3: Public history at museums and historic sites
Maria Cambinda at the National History Museum
This 19th-century sculpture and mask in wood was used in processions of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men, in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais. She was adopted as a symbol of the Decolonial Brazil: other histories exhibition at the…
"Types of Walking Sellers" ("Tipos de Rua") at the National History Museum
These 19th and 20th-century works made in carved wood by Bahian artist Erotides Americo de Araujo Lopes represent Black female workers on the streets of Brazil. These women, both enslaved and free, are also called "ganhadeiras," referring to the…
Sambistas by Heitor dos Prazeres, at the MUHCAB
Oil painting by Heitor dos Prazeres, an Afro-Brazilian samba composer and artist.
Cannon yard (pátio dos canhões) at the National History Museum
Cannons left from the original fortress of Santiago which included the Trem House for guarding artillery and the War Arsenal. The region where the museum is located was a military area until 1908, when the War Arsenal was transferred to Ponta do…
Morro da Providência
A view of the first favela of Brazil, Morro da Providência, from the Valongo Hanging Garden. The half-moon on top of the hill is part of Casa Amarela, a cultural center established in 2009 by the French artist JR and the Brazilian photographer and…
Casa Omolokum
Located in Little Africa, Casa Omolokum--named after the food made for Oxum, the Afro-Brazilian deity of femininity, fertility, and prosperity--serves Afro-Brazilian dishes such as moqueca and acarajé. The restaurant is part of a collective that…