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circa 1985
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Class discussion and conference presentations” (Audio; Audio cassette).
1892
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white photograph of the Oberlin Academy Preparatory School Class of 1892. There are three (3) rows of students. The first row is one (1) girl in a white dress. Her hair is pulled back and she has curls in the front. She appears to be kneeling…
July 1978
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA class photo album made for a Booker T. Washington High School reunion in Tulsa, Oklahoma, held July 20 - 23, 1978, for classes 1916 through the 1920s. The album consists of twenty-eight (28) photocopied pages of black ink printed on white paper and is…
ca. 1910
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Class portrait of girls in Gayaza high school, Wakiso District” (Photographic prints).
1919
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Class portrait of Medical School” (Photographic prints).
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Class portrait of school at Ndeje” (Photographic prints).
ca. 1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is the Classic Chrysoprase ring designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The ring's sterling silver band is a split shank design, with the split into two bands creating a large bridge in which floats a large, green cabochon stone. The speckled…
ca. 1967
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is the Classic Translucency ring designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The ring's wide and flat sterling silver band is open-ended at the base and features a large chalcedony cabochon. The chalcedony stone is a translucent, grayish white and has…
1980
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oil on canvas painting of a woman's face by Eldzier Cortor. Depicted primarily on the left of the canvas, is a woman with voluminous dark hair. Her proper right hand rests against her cheek, and a bright round earring is in her proper left ear. Her…
1889–1967
Claude Albert Barnett (September 16, 1889 – August 2, 1967) was an American journalist, publisher, entrepreneur, philanthropist, civic activist, Pan-Africanist, and founder of the Associated Negro Press (ANP). He started the first international news agency…
October 1990
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Claude Ardouin and M. Sal looking at a monograph from the "Cahiers William Ponty" at the National Archives, Dakar, Senegal” (Slides (photographs)).
October 1990
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Claude Ardouin standing on the Phare de Mamelies Lighthouse, near Dakar, Senegal” (Slides (photographs)).
Biography
Claude Barnes (born 1952[?]) is an American civil rights leader for 40 years and a former professor, who was convicted in 2010 of embezzling the estate of his deceased neighbor.
1916–2009
Claude William Black Jr. (November 28, 1916 – March 13, 2009) was an American Baptist minister and political figure. Black was born in San Antonio, Texas, which was segregated at the time.
1937–2002
Claude Brown (February 23, 1937 – February 2, 2002) was the author of Manchild in the Promised Land, published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. He also published Children of Ham…
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Claude Clark (November 11, 1915 – April 21, 2001) was an American painter, printmaker and art educator. Clark's subject matter was the diaspora of African American culture, including dance scenes, street urchins, marine life, landscapes, and religious and…
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Claude Demetrius (August 3, 1916 – May 1, 1988) was an American songwriter. He was known for his rockabilly songs, some of which were made famous by singers such as Elvis Presley.
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Claude Kelly (born December 28, 1980) is an American record producer, songwriter, and singer. A four-time Grammy Award nominee, he has been credited on commercially successful releases for artists such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Kelly Clarkson,…
1889–1948
Born in Jamaica, McKay became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, whose poem 'If We Must Die' and novel Home to Harlem shaped Black literary modernism.
1980–
Claude Patrick (born June 14, 1980) is a Canadian retired mixed martial artist. Patrick most recently competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), fighting in their Welterweight division.
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Claude Mason Steele (born January 1, 1946) is a social psychologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, where he is the I. James Quillen Endowed Dean, emeritus at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, and Lucie Stern Professor in…
1963–
Claude Vilgrain (born March 1, 1963) is a Haitian-born Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He played in 89 National Hockey League games with the Vancouver Canucks, New Jersey Devils, and Philadelphia Flyers. He played in the 1988 Winter…
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Claudell Washington (August 31, 1954 – June 10, 2020) was an American baseball outfielder who played seventeen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, New…
1939–
In March 1955, fifteen-year-old Colvin refused to give up her Montgomery bus seat, months before Parks’s more widely known protest.
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