In the latest episode of The Curse of Oak Island, excitement over a newly discovered pipe stem quickly turned into online ridicule. The artifact, recovered from the RP-1 shaft, was touted by the team ...

One day about 200 years ago, a woman enslaved on a tobacco plantation near Annapolis, Maryland, tossed aside the broken stem of the clay pipe she was smoking in the slave quarters where she lived.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From card: "With decorated wooden ...