Nancy Green
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Nancy Green promoted food stuffs as "Aunt Jemima". She was one of the first African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark and became the advertising world's first living trademark, de
Portrait of Green as Aunt Jemima
1894 advertisement depicting Nancy Green as Aunt Jemima
Potter's field
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A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed or poverty-stricken people. The term "potter's field" is of Biblical origin, and refers to Akeldama, wh
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…a car driven by pharmacist Dr. H. S. Seymour collided with a laundry truck and "hurtled" onto the sidewalk where she was standing. She is buried in a pauper's grave near a wall in the northeast quadrant of Chicago's Oak Woods Cemetery. Her grave was unmarked and unknown until 2015. Sherry Williams, founder of the…
The Trench in Potter's Field on Hart Island, New York, circa 1890 by Jacob Riis
Potter's field in Dunn County, Wisconsin
"I come to claim my dead" drawing by William Thomas Smedley, circa 1884