Donor notes read: "Circumcision celebration at Mamudia. Dec. 30, 1979. Young men dancing to celebrate the girls circumcision. Some wear head ties (like women) and have pieces of cloth tied over their breasts. Some of their faces have been made white with…
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1702
A conceptual, mixed media artwork featuring a canvas painted with white acrylic and scattered with diamond dust, glitter, and baking soda adhered using a gel medium. The gel has an off-white tinge and has been smeared unevenly across the surface of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.43ab
Cirie Tiffany Fields (; born July 18, 1970) is an American reality television personality and nurse best known for competing on multiple seasons of Survivor. Fields holds the record for most appearances in the franchise. In 2006, Fields appeared for the…
Emily "Cissy" Houston (née Drinkard; September 30, 1933 – October 7, 2024) was an American soul and gospel singer and choir director. Nicknamed The Duchess of Gospel, she is best known as the mother of American singer and actress Whitney Houston and the…
A typewritten letter, signed by Governer Craig Finch, and with an embossed gold seal of the state of Mississippi. The letter is on stationery with a letterhead reading [Mississippi / Executive Department / Jackson] and the typewritten text recognizes Rev.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.66
A black-and-white photograph of Resurrection City. There are two cars on the proper right side of the photo. Behind the cars there is a wood buildings with fliers on it. There is a handmade white sign which reads [CITY HALL] in black paint. There are some…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.109.12
A sketch in black ink of Philadelphia City Hall drawn on Walker Evans & Cogswell notepaper by architect Julian Abele Cook, Sr. This highly detailed drawing by Julian Abele Cook, Sr. depicts the face of Philadelphia City Hall clock tower. Cook’s drawing…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.95.14
Cataloged as “City License of Columbia, Columbia S.C. 1929 M.A. Evans Md. / Letterhead paper for Dr. M.A. Evans Specialist Gynecology and Pediatrics” (Text).
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2019.109_ref5
Original caption reads, "City of Cape Town. The Heerengracht and Adderly Street by night. Die stad Kaapstad. Heerengracht en Adderley-straat in die aand.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA SA-30-25
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