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Photographs and Still Images

Studio portrait of a woman in graduation cap and gown

1960 - 1970s

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A color photograph of a young woman. She is wearing a green cap and gown with a white collar. The tassel hanging from the cap is green. Her hair is to her shoulders and she has bangs pushed to her left.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.25.8
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Photographs and Still Images

Studio portrait of a woman in graduation cap and gown

1960 - 1970s

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A color photograph of a young woman. She is wearing a yellow cap and gown with a white collar and hoop earrings. The tassel hanging from the cap is yellow and brown. Her hair comes to her shoulders and is curly.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.25.9
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Photographs and Still Images

Studio portrait of a woman in graduation cap and gown

1960 - 1970s

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A color photograph of a young woman. She is wearing a blue cap and gown with a white collar. The tassel hanging from the cap is blue. Her hair is short and curly. She is seated in front of a light background with a darker material in front.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.26.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Studio portrait of a woman in graduation cap and gown

1960 - 1970s

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A color photograph of a young woman. She is wearing a blue cap and gown with a white collar. The tassel hanging from the cap is blue. Her hair is short and curly. She is seated in front of a light background with a darker material in front.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.26.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Studio portrait of a woman in graduation cap and gown

1960 - 1970s

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A color photograph of a young woman. She is wearing a yellow cap and gown with a white collar and gold earrings. The tassel hanging from the cap is dark with two strands of yellow visible. She has short hair.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.26.6
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gelatin silver prints

Studio portrait of a young girl in graduation cap

1948 - 1970s

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A black-and-white photograph of a young girl. She is wearing a light cap, earrings, long-sleeved shirt, skirt, socks and dark shoes. She is standing holding a rolled up diploma in her hands.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.19.23
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Photographs and Still Images

Studio portrait of a young girl with Project Head Start certificate

1965 - 1970s

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A black-and-white photograph of a young girl. She is wearing a light graduation cap, earrings and a dark sleeveless stripped garment. She is holding up a certificate from Project Headstart in her hands.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.18.24
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Photographs and Still Images

Studio portrait of a young man in graduation cap and gown

1960 - 1970s

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A color photograph of a young man. He is wearing a blue cap and gown, glasses, a white shirt and dark tie underneath the gown. The tassel hanging from his cap is blue. His hair is in the afro hairstyle.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.137.23.3
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BIOGRAPHY
Sports & Achievement

Stump Mitchell

1959–

Lyvonia Albert "Stump" Mitchell (born March 15, 1959) is an American football coach and former player who currently serves as the running backs coach for the West Georgia Wolves. He previously served in the same role for the Cleveland Browns of the…

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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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ARCHIVE FILE
Archival documents & files

Subject Index (3) — Register of Letters Received Vol. 1

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Subject Index (3)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M803, File 3.1.2
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Archival documents & files

Subject Index — Register of Letters Received Vol. 2

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Subject Index”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M803, File 3.2.2
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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

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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BIOGRAPHY
Literature

Suli Breaks

1988–

Darryll Suliaman Amoako (born 22 January 1988), better known by his stage name Suli Breaks, is an English spoken word poet. He is best known for his spoken word videos on his YouTube Channel, Suli Breaks, his 2012 video "Why I Hate School but Love…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Time-based Media - Moving Images

Summer Semester: The Negro in the 20th Century

1970s

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A CBS program produced by Bergen Community College titled The Negro in the 20th Century. It consists of a white DVD (a) and a paper program (b). The white DVD (a) has the program title, date, and college logo printed on it and features a conversation…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.90.5.1ab
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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Sun Ra

1914–1993

Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and…

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Historical photographs & visual records

Sunday school picnic near Elmina

[ca. 1910]

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Original caption reads "A Sunday School picnicing on the road to Elmina. Cocoa nut palms".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1995-018, Item EEPA 1995-180020
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ARCHIVE FILE
Archival documents & files

Sunday School Teacher's Book — Elizabeth N. Thomas

1887-1888

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Cataloged as “Sunday School Teacher's Book” (Books).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2010.26_ref191
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