This is a red A-line knit dress with crocheted cap sleeves. It has a V-neckline edged in crochet with small red knots at regular intervals. The sleeves are cap sleeves made in an open loop crochet pattern. The dress is mid-calf length, with a wide flaring…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2018.88.1.7
This is a pale blue A-line knit dress with cap sleeves. The cap sleeves are done in a zig-zag crochet pattern in the same blue yarn as the body of the dress. It has a V-neckline edged in crochet. There is a white fabric tag with black text on the inside of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2018.88.1.10
Donor notes read: "A lion on Dennis and Hanni's at Falaba; by the Guinea artist. April, 1980. [see also SL-23-10,14,15 for same artist]. The date on the slide is MAY 80.".
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1783
A lobby card for the movie St. Louis Blues. The card features a depiction of four cast members on the right: Barney Bigard, Nat "King" Cole, Eartha Kitt, and Cab Calloway. To the left of that image is a red square with the title: [St. Louis Blues] inside,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.34.14
Donor notes read: "A Loko dancer waiting to dance. Kalangba, Sept. 30, 1980. Pictures taken at the 1980 Peace Corps Agricultural Training Program held at Kalangba (A Loko chiefdom capital about 15 miles north of Makeni on the Kamakwie road). The date on…
Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1918
A hardcover book titled “A Love That Equals My Labors: The Life Story of Norma E. Boyd" written by Norma Boyd. The book jacket has a white background with an image of an elderly black woman wearing a pink outfit.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.133.3.37
White and pink text on a pink and white background. The interior contains ninety-five pages of text and photographs. The back of the pamphlet has an advertisement for New Century Publishers.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.92
Antonio Maceo Smith (April 16, 1903 – December 19, 1977) was a civil rights leader in Dallas, Texas, whose years of activism with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other civil rights and community groups led Texans…
A. Maceo Walker (June 7, 1909 – June 8, 1994) was an American businessman who led expansion of the Universal Life Insurance Company, founded by his father Joseph Edison Walker in Memphis, Tennessee. Together with his father in 1946, he founded the…
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