St. Paul’s Central Police Station, 1900. Harris Martin died there in 1903 after having a heart attack on St. Peter Street.

Sixth Street in St. Paul, 1900. Boxing champion Harris Martin bested opponents in the back room of a saloon on this street in the late 1880s.

Drawing of Harris Martin that appeared on page five of the St. Paul Daily Globe on May 24, 1890.

Print based on a photograph of Harris Martin, 1887. Original caption: “Harris Martin, the Black Pearl, a Famous Boxer of St. Paul, Minnesota.” Police Gazette (New York), June 4, 1887, page 13.

Harris Martin in Minneapolis, 1887. The photograph appeared on page two of the St. Paul Globe on April 27, 1903.

Casiville Bullard, Addison Bullard, and their children, ca. 1908. Pictured are (clockwise, left to right) Casiville, Lilly, Addison, Howard, Janet, and Casiville Jr. Public domain.

St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church (3600 Snelling Avenue, Minneapolis), 1975.

Irene Paull, Joe Paszak, and an unidentified person, 1937.

Promotional artwork created by Daniel Alexander Jones for Ntozake Shange's play a photograph: lovers in motion, ca. 1994. From folder 7 of box 5 of Penumbra Theatre Company records (GV002), Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.