Archive address

Amherstburg Freedom Museum

277 King Street
Amherstburg, ON
N9V 2C7

The Archive

The Opening of the Current Museum Building 1981 The Taylor Log Cabin 1865 Hon. Madame Justice Micheline Rawlins 1992 Teacher John Alexander and His Pupils 1908 Delos R. Davis 1910 Men in Canoe 2015 Josiah Henson 2015 Elijah McCoy 2015 War Memorial 1935-1945 War Memorial with Flag 2015 The War Mothers Protective League 1944 Kenneth Jacobs 2015 Viola Desmond 1944 Dr. A. Binga Jr. 2015 The Provincial Freeman: Mary Ann Shadd 2015 Nazrey A.M.E. Church prior to the 1999 restoration Underground Railroad Illustration 2015 Dr. Henry Fitzbutler 1942 W.C. Handy, known as the Father of the Blues 1952 Anderson Ruffin Abbott 1871 Amherstburg Freedom Museum founder Mac Simpson 2015 Jesse Henderson 1942-1945 Union Army 2015 Gerry Harris of Amherstburg 1915 Dr. Howard McCurdy 1932 Bishop Willis Nazrey 1848 Peter Russell 1806 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution 1865 Nelson Mandela 2015 Rosa Parks 2015 Picture of the Museum 2015 Henry Bibb 1851-1853 Dr. William Kelly John Hall ca. 1780s Junior Deputy Sheriffs 1948 Nasa McCurdy 1856 Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day! 2016 Laura Haviland 2016 John W. Fields, Age 89 ca. 1930s Walter Perry The Simpson Family, 1916 Mathieu Da Costa ca. 1605 William Still 1872 The Echo, 1892 Slave Narrative: William Moore ca. 1930s Rosa Park Carter G. Woodson 1907 Lyle Browning 1923-2013 False-Bottomed Wagons Alexander Ross ca. 1950s Frederick Douglass 1895 Harvey Mulder, Wilf Scott, Bernie Day, Frank Walls, Rev. Andy Talbot, Rev. Lloyd Jenkins and Fred Johnson 2016 Slave Narrative: Sarah Gudger, Age 121 ca. 1930s Carrie Best Reverend Alger Coates and Family Not Identified Levi Foster 1848 Matthew Elliott’s Amherstburg Home Fleeing Slavery Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune 1954 Dr. H.D. Taylor Harry Olbey and his band, the Rhythmaires Slave Narrative: Tempie Cummins ca. 1930s Taylor Log Cabin Truck School 1851 Mac Simpson and His Wife Betty Lieutenant-Governor Sir Francis Bond Head 1838 Hugh Burnette Mrs. Claudia Posey and Mrs. Charlotte Bronte 1981 James Dunn 1883 Chloe Cooley 1793 Tuskegee Airmen 1941 James Watson 2016 Louise Rock 1985 Delos Rogest Davis ca. 1900s Rose Fortune 1774-1864 Fugitive Slave Act 1850 Paul Robeson 1898 John Newton Taylor Cabin Staircase Unidentified Man in Formal Suit Anderson Ruffin Abbott 1861 Black Farming - Tobacco Black Farmers - Drkde Drkde Virgil Grayer 1947 Viola Desmond 1946 Compensated Emancipation Act 1862 Ribs and Ragtime at the Amherstburg Freedom Museum 2016 Amherstburg Freedom Museum Ad - Poster Heavy Iron Shackles Kenneth Kersey 1916 Walter Perry ca. 1950s Reverend Mack Brown 1935 A Birthing Chair ca. 1900s Dr. Roy Perry Slave Ships Emancipation Parade, 1990 Last call! Ad [Unidentified Family Photo For Ad] 2016 Interior Furnishings of The Frontier Log Cabin Levi Coffin (Back Row, Center) 1854 Elijah J. McCoy 1844 African Women Association of Windsor Gala 2016 Dr. Martin Robison Delany 1812-1885 Abolitionist William Wells Brown 1834 Unidentified Man and Elderly Woman John Brown Event 1858 Unidentified Man With Long Tie Music Sheet Cover Emancipation Parade - Kenneth Grayer 1990 Snow Today – Unidentified Family 1923 Walter Rimm, Age 80 ca. 1930s Henry Walton Bibb 1837 Betty Simpson 1925-2014 Agnes Ellsworth 1950-1999 Windsor Walkerville Fringe Festival – [Poster] 2016 Amherstburg Freedom Machine Collection 1908 Miss Sepia Contest 1962 Malcolm X 1925-1965 The Newark Boys Chorus 2016 John Ware 1882 Coleman Young 1969 Laura Haviland American Graveyard Sojourner Truth 1851 William Prescott Colchester’s First Black School 1818 Mac Simpson awarding Darla Hurst 1980 Talking Drum 2016 Shelton Brooks 1930 The Transatlantic Slave Trade Map Ella Johnson, About 85 Years Old ca. 1930s Dr. William Kenneth Rock 1923-1985 Juanita Westmoreland-Traore Thornton and Lucie Blackburn 1883 Unidentified Persons [Marcus Garvey and Others] in a Limousine Museum Board, 1980 Harriet Tubman [Illustration] 1861-1865 Emancipation Day Celebration Band 1865 Unidentified Group of Persons - Father’s Day Photo George McCurdy 1971-1983 Ted Powell, Rev. Abernathy, Percy Black and Dr. Young 1982 Water Bill 1897 John Spencer Jackson 1915 Oil Painting of Sojourner Truth Interviewing President Lincoln 1915 Emancipation Day Ad 1834 No. 2 Construction Battalion [Commemorative Postage Stamp] 1916 Cabin Artefacts Cabin Artefacts – Dining Table Emancipation Day Festivities 1948 Emancipation Celebration Dinner and Dance [Poster] 2016 Bishop Clarence Leslie Morton Sr [R] 1897 George Womble, 93 1843 James Smith [Street Scene] 1988 Helen Perry ca. 1930s Yard Sale [Poster] 2016 Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., [Middle] Seen Here With Charlotte Perry, and Unnamed Man ca. 1950s Alfred Shadd 1870 Amherstburg Regular Missionary Baptist Association 1840 Richard Harrison 1864 Edmund (Ted) Powell, Chairmen; Emancipation Celebration, 1977 George Brown ca. 1840s Miss International Sepia Pageant ca. 1950s Alvin McCurdy 1916 The Southwestern Christian Advocate 1870 Abolition of Slavery Document 1833 Emancipation Day Proclamation for Windsor 2016 Emancipation Day Proclamation for Amherstburg 2016 Emancipation Day Proclamation for Amherstburg 2016 Walter Perry Emancipation Golf Classic 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. 1956 Natasha Henry’s Emancipation Day Street Scene Talking Drum 2016 Artifacts [Slavery] 1846 John Mason ca. 1830s Betty Farrow 90, 1847 Voice of the Fugitive 1851 The Provincial Freeman 1854 Anthony Banks 1881 Cote-Simpson House 1906 John Walls 1845 The True Band Society 1854 The Rope Bed ca. 1500s-1800s Hotel Dieu Hospital 1888 William Hall n.d. William Hubbard 1892 The Gem Ferry n.d. John Alexander and Students 1908 Hand Bell n.d. Education n.d. Mac Simpson ca. 1930s Resource For Teaching Black Canadian History 2016 James Dougall ca. 1830s The Mulder Farm 1973 Jeremiah Jerry Harris n.d. Railway Porters n.d. Farmer on Tractor n.d. Members of the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge, Harrow n.d. The Hour-A-Day Study Club 1956 Unidentified Man of African Descent n.d. Frederick Douglass 1835 Marie-Joseph Angélique n.d. Granville T. Woods n.d. Crossing to Freedom at Amherstburg 1850 An Elderly Nasa McCurdy 1856 Crossing to Freedom at Amherstburg 1850 Henry Fitzbutler 1842 Ann Maria Weems 1855 Mary McCoy 1846 The Underground Railroad n.d. The Voice of the Fugitive 1881 Levi Coffin 1880 Young Drum Majorettes 1951 John Gant’s Barber Shop 1869 Scope of Dispersion Map 1837 Unidentified Formal Dinner Guests n.d. Eleanor Roosevelt 1954 Caroline Hammond 94, ca. 1930s Fugitive Ad 1849 John Brown 1859 Abraham Shadd 1853 Rosemary Brown 1995 Unidentified Woman in Checkered Blouse n.d. Lyman Goodnow n.d. Black Troops n.d. Elderly Man With Pipe n.d. Unidentified Group of Persons Infront of a Barn Fred Johnson 2016 John Anderson 1853 The Simpson's ca. 1950s Josiah Henson and Wife n.d. Unidentified Women and Children Infront of a House n.d. John Graves Simcoe 1793 Underground Railroad Scholars 2016 Unidentified Man in Military Uniform n.d. Oscar Peterson n.d. James Watson 1942 No. 2 Construction Battalion n.d. Unidentified Man in Military Uniform 2 n.d. Unidentified Group of Pilots n.d. Dr. Lewis Milburn ca. 1960s Wilson Brooks 1943 Anne Clark ca. 1900s Reverend Willis Nazrey n.d. Mac Simpson and His Band, 1960 Unidentified Gentleman n.d. Unidentified Gentleman With a Book n.d. Unidentified Gentleman in Photo Studio n.d. Detroit ca. 1700s Uncredited Quote and Picture n.d. Large Crowd - Uncaptioned n.d. Reverend Josephus O’Banyoun ca. 1860s Scaffolding at a Fair - Uncaptioned n.d. Emancipation Celebrations - Uncaptioned n.d. Emancipation Celebrations - Street Scene n.d. Parade Uncaptioned n.d. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. 1945 Samuel Day 1840 Talking Drum 2016 Bishop Clarence Morton Sr. n.d. 13th Admendment 1865 John W Fields 1941 Dr. Howard McCurdy 2016 Unidentified Woman at Piano with Group of Persons n.d. James Mink ca. 1850s Unidentified Persons Infront of a House ca. 1800s Elder C.L. Morton's 17th Anniversary of Service 1944 Group of Women n.d. Odessa Simpson n.d. Nat Turner n.d. The Amherstburg Merchants' Football Club 1927 Adams Family n.d. Alexander Family n.d. Armstrong Family n.d. Artis Family n.d. Banks Family n.d. Baylis Family n.d. Binga Family n.d. Brantford Family n.d. Brooks Family n.d. Browning Family n.d. Brown-Nelson Family n.d. Christian Family n.d. Clingman Family n.d. Conway Family n.d. Davis Family n.d. Dennis Family n.d. Goodrich Family n.d. Grayer Family n.d. Harris Family n.d. Hawkins Family n.d. Holton Family n.d. Hurst Family (Ransom) n.d. Hurst Family (Washington) n.d. Johnson Family n.d. Kersey Family n.d. Kirtley Family n.d. Marshall Family n.d. Mulder Family n.d. Nall Family n.d. Nolan Family n.d. Parker Family n.d. Pearl Family n.d. Saunders Family n.d. Simpson Family (James’ Line) n.d. Simpson Family (Levi’s Line) n.d. Stokes Family n.d. Taylor Family n.d. Thomas Family n.d. Wilson Family n.d. Fighting a Double War 2021 Building A Legacy: From the Tower of Freedom to ECBHRS 2021 James Jessop - Prince Hall Masonry Journey to Canada 2021 Elise Harding Davis Interview - Moving Forward While Looking Back 2021 Moving Forward While Looking Back: An Emancipation Panel Discussion 2021 Reading the Voice of the Bondsman: J.J.E. Linton and the Black Press in Canada 2021 The HADSC: The Preservation of Culture, Heritage and Black Feminist Thought in Windsor/Essex County 2021 Liberatory Pedagogies: Black Women Teachers in Ontario" Dr. Funké Aladejebi 2021 "The Story of John Freeman” Presented by PhD Student Leon Bates 2021 Establishing Black Power Settlements on Canadian Soil – From The East Coast to the West Coast 2020 The Forgotten History of the Contribution of Black Slaves and Soldiers to the Building of Canada 2020 Borderlands & River Crossers: Re-Examining Freedom & Safe Havens in Upper Canada 2020 Emancipation in Windsor: Celebrating Black Activism and Achievement Presented by Irene Moore Davis 2020 One Too Many: "Africans Enslaved in Essex County" Presented by Natasha Henry 2020 Remembering Military Courage Through Confrontation Presented by Elise Harding-Davis 2020 Underground Railway Journeys 2020 Sharing Our Stories: Binga Family 2018 Sharing Our Stories: Quarlls Family 2018 Sharing Our Stories: Timberlake Family 2018 The Underground Railroad: Next Stop Freedom FR 2015 The Underground Railroad: Next Stop Freedom EN 2015