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Time-based Media - Moving Images

Daphne Muse Oral History Interview

November 14, 2023

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An oral history interview and conversation with educator Daphne Muse. It consists of three versions of a digital video recording, two camera card files (2025.12.9.1.1 and 2025.12.9.1.2, .mxf files) and one edited file (2025.12.9.1.3, .mov file). Daphne…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.12.9.1
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Literature & Journalism

Daphne Sheppard

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Daphne Sheppard was an American journalist. She was a Brooklyn-based columnist, journalist manager and editor for the New York Amsterdam News from 1955 until 1970. The New York Amsterdam News is one of the oldest and largest newspapers established by, for…

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Film & Television

Daphne Valerius

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Daphne Valerius is a filmmaker born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Rhode Island. She is best known for producing the 2007 documentary film The Souls of Black Girls. Valerius has also produced television work for ABC, FOX and BET.

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Visual Arts

Dapo Adeola

Biography

Dapo Adeola is a British-Nigerian illustrator. He co-created and illustrated the Waterstones children's book of 2020 Look Up!, which explored space science. Adeola is best known for creating graphics that challenge race and gender stereotypes.

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Sports

Dapo Afolayan

1997–

Oladapo Joshua Afolayan (born 11 September 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or centre-forward for EFL Championship club Blackburn Rovers. He spent his youth at a number of clubs: Harrow St Marys, Chelsea, Toronto FC,…

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Sports

Dapo Mebude

2001–

Adedapo Paul Oluwaseun Awokoya-Mebude (born 29 July 2001) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Arbroath.

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Arts & Performance

Dapper Dan

1944–

Daniel R. Day (born August 8, 1944), known as Dapper Dan, is an American fashion designer and haberdasher from Harlem, New York. His store, Dapper Dan's Boutique, operated from 1982 to 1992 and is most associated with introducing high fashion to hip hop…

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Photographs and Still Images

Dapper musician steps out for a smoke, c. mid 1950s

ca. 1955

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This black and white photograph depicts a man standing in front of a door smoking. He wears a dark suit with a white shirt and white boutonniere, and a dark hat with a white stripe around the brim. He holds a cigarette in his raised left hand. He stands in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.117.14
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Historical photographs & documents

Dapper Studio Invoice

1-20-1997

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Cataloged as “Dapper Studio Invoice” (Text).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.A2013.149.3, Item 5
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Sports

Daps

1986–

Oladapo Fagbenle (born 12 February 1986), professionally known as Daps, is a Nigerian-born British artist, video director, and former NCAA athlete. He is best known for directing music videos for recording artists such as Migos, Stormzy, Iggy Azalea,…

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Historical photographs & visual records

Dar-es-Salaam Drying Coconuts in plantations

c. 1920

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Ms. on verso.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA TZ 1996-005-026
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Historical photographs & visual records

Dar es Salaam harbor and modern buildings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Dar es Salaam harbor and modern buildings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0225
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Historical photographs & visual records

Dar es Salaam Harbor, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

1966-06

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Cataloged as “Dar es Salaam Harbor, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0379
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Dar es Salaam harbor showing freighters and docks, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Dar es Salaam harbor showing freighters and docks, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0351
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Historical photographs & visual records

Dar es Salaam Harbor, Tanzania

1966-06

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Cataloged as “Dar es Salaam Harbor, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0568
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Historical photographs & visual records

Dar es Salaam Harbor with dhow and modern buildings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Dar es Salaam Harbor with dhow and modern buildings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0375
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Historical photographs & visual records

[Dar es Salaam University law students at graduation], Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

1966-06

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Cataloged as “[Dar es Salaam University law students at graduation], Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0644
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Science & Inventions

Dara M. Wilson

Biography

Dara M. Wilson is a naturalist, science educator, and co-chair of the Black Birders Week Advisory Group. She has been awarded the 2022-2023 Vanguard Fellow by the Cecil Corbin-Mark Vanguard Fellowship program. She has also worked with the Smithsonian…

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Science & Inventions

Dara Norman

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Dara J. Norman is an astronomer and the deputy director of the Community Science and Data Center at the National Science Foundation's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Norman is currently the 50th…

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Music

Dara Tucker

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Dara Starr Tucker is an American singer, songwriter, social commentator and satirist. Tucker has released four studio albums: All Right Now (2009), Soul Said Yes (2011) The Sun Season (2014), and Oklahoma Rain (2017), as well as a limited-release, live…

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Historical photographs & visual records

Darassa. Two stone columns, Cross River, Nigeria

1969-06

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Original text on slide reads, "Darassa. Two stone columns on which have been carved rudimentary human features and chevron decorations. height- 50 inches".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1137
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Politics & Public Life

Darcel Clark

1962–

Darcel Denise Clark (born April 2, 1962) is an American attorney and prosecutor who has served as the Bronx County District Attorney since 2016. Clark is the first woman to hold that office, and the first woman of color to serve as a district attorney in…

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Arts & Performance

Darcel Leonard Wynne

1951–

Darcel Leonard-Wynne (born June 13, 1951, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), sometimes credited as simply Darcel, is an American dancer, choreographer, author and producer, best known for heading the "Solid Gold Dancers" on the syndicated 1980s music series…

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Music

Darcus Beese

1969–

Darcus Beese OBE (born 1969) is a British music executive and the former president and chief executive officer of Island Records from his appointment in 2018 till his departure on 3 February 2021. Beese, who has been described by Music Week as "one of the…

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