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negatives

Studio Portrait of Two Women Sitting Wearing Hats

1948 - 1970s

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Studio Portrait of Two Women Sitting Wearing Hats and Holding their Purses on their Laps.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.10.18.D
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negatives

Studio Portrait of Two Women Sitting with Child

1948 - 1970s

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Studio Portrait of Two Women Sitting and Child is Standing between them.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.13.24.B
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negatives

Studio Portrait of Two Women Standing

1948 - 1970s

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Studio Portrait of Two Women Standing.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.11.14.B
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negatives

Studio Portrait of Woman Sitting, Diptych

1948 - 1970s

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Studio Portrait of Woman Sitting, Diptych.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.7.4.D.2
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negatives

Studio Portrait of Woman Sitting, Myrtle Robinson

1948 - 1970s

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Studio Portrait of Woman Sitting, Myrtle Robinson.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.17.28.D
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negatives

Studio Portrait Two Women Sitting

1948 - 1970s

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Studio Portrait Two Women Sitting.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.5.31.C
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negatives

Studio Wedding Portrait of a Bride and Groom Holding Hands

1948 - 1970s

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Studio Wedding Portrait of a Bride and Groom Standing and Holding Hands.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.1.69.13.23.B
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Historical photographs & visual records

"Study Room, Governors Home, El Geneina, Anglo Egyptian Sudan, Africa"

circa 1920

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Cataloged as “"Study Room, Governors Home, El Geneina, Anglo Egyptian Sudan, Africa"” (Photographs; Photographic prints).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2015-012, Item EEPA 2015-012-0051
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BIOGRAPHY
Politics & Public Life

Styles Hutchins

1852–1950

Styles Linton Hutchins (November 1, 1852 – September 7, 1950) was an attorney, politician, and activist in South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee between 1877 (the end of Reconstruction) and 1906 (the height of Jim Crow). Hutchins was among the last…

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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera

Su Derecho de Voto en Virginia

2008

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A single page, double-sided Spanish language document from the Obama campaign field office in Virginia. The document consists of a single sheet of white paper, printed on both sides in black ink. The document begins with [Su / Derecho de Voto en Virginia]…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.93.41.1
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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Subway poster for School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson

2009

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This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama on the bottom half and an abstract lion’s face on the upper half. The lion’s face consists of a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.11.31
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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Subway poster for School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson

2009

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This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an illustration of a red, white, and blue pencil. The poster has a black background with white…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.11.32
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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Subway poster for School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson

2009

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This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an illustration of an abstract figure painting two red flowers. The poster has a blue…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.11.33
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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Subway poster for School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson

2009

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This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an abstract illustration of a flying bird. The poster has a dark blue background with three…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.11.34
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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Subway poster for School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson

2009

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This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an abstract flower with eyes for leaves. The poster has a black background. In the upper left…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.11.36
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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Subway poster for School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson

2009

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This is a subway poster for the School of Visual Arts designed by Gail Anderson and illustrated by Terry Allen, featuring a quote from President Barack Obama and an abstract flower with eyes for leaves. The poster has a black background. In the upper left…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.11.37
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BIOGRAPHY
Literature

Sudz Sutherland

Biography

David "Sudz" Sutherland is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His credits include the films Doomstown, Love, Sex and Eating the Bones, Guns, Speakers for the Dead and Home Again, as well as episodes of Drop the Beat, Da Kink in My Hair, Degrassi:…

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BIOGRAPHY
Literature

Sueli Carneiro

1950–

Aparecida Sueli Carneiro Jacoel, best known as Sueli Carneiro (born 24 June 1950 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian philosopher, writer and anti-racism activist. Carneiro is the founder and current director of Geledés — Instituto da Mulher Negra (Geledés — Black…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Tools and Equipment

Sugar bowl from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

mid 20th-late 20th century

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A sugar bowl from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The sugar bowl is from a Czechoslovakian cream and sugar set. It is entirely constructed from off-white ceramic. The body of the vessel is rounded and squat. Its exterior surface is molded to resemble an acorn…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.62
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Suit worn by Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant to a protest in Ferguson, Missouri

October 13, 2014

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This suit consists of a jacket (.1) and pants (.2) worn by Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant to a protest in Ferguson, Missouri. The jacket (.1) is a black wool single-breasted blazer with a notched lapel and full-length straight sleeves. It closes at the center…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.180.1.1-.2
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