The following public domain historical photographs are in the ebook edition of Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux. Click on the photos to learn more.
From Chapter 2: Birthday Surprise
Photo and Link: The Youth’s Companion Project (read the full issue)
From Chapter 3: A Great Sea of Grass
Photo and Link: Buffalo Wallow, 1897
From Part II: Breaking Sod
Photo: Sitting Bull,1885
Link: Chief Sitting Bull (PBS’s New Perspectives on the West)
From Chapter 4: Building Our Soddy
Photo and Link: Her Know (Dakota Sioux Girl), 1899
From Chapter 5: The Long Winter
Photo: Boy Plowing, 1900
Link: Building a Sod House
From Chapter 6: Oscar
Photo: Pullman Porter, 1880s
Link: Pullman Porters (National American Museum of History)
From Part III: Strangers in a Strange Land
Photo: Oscar Micheaux, 1913
Link: Celebrating Oscar Micheaux (Rapid City Journal)
From Part IV: Oscar’s Gift
Photo: Booker T. Washington, 1911
Link: Booker T. & W.E.B. (PBS, Frontline)
