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1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCarte-de-visite of a formerly enslaved man identified only as Private Gordon. Gordon is seated with his bare back turned to the camera. There are severe raised scars from just above his shoulder blades to his lower back. He head is facing to the left and…
1863; printed later
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA glass plate photographic "magic lantern" slide depicting the bare back of an enslaved man with multiple raised scars. The slide has a black and gold paper sleeve and is in a plain wooden slide mount. There is a short crack in the lower left corner of the…
1923–1989
Grace Marilyn James (1923 – 1989) was an American pediatrician in Louisville, Kentucky. When she began practicing medicine in 1953, the hospitals in Louisville were racially segregated by law. At the University of Louisville School of Medicine she was the…
Biography
Grace D. O'Connell is an American biomechanical engineer known for her research on the biomechanics of the human spine, on the degeneration and regeneration of spinal tissue, and on the comparison of its properties with the spines of animals used in the…
September 5, 1947
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA graduation program for the Homer G. Phillips Hospital School of Nursing. The event was held on Friday, September 5, 1947 at Stowe Teachers College in Saint Louis, Missouri. The program is a single sheet of paper that was previously folded in half on a…
1900–1946
Grady Diploma "Dip" Orange (March 22, 1900 – September 21, 1946) was an American professional baseball infielder in the Negro leagues. He played from 1925 to 1931, playing with the Birmingham Black Barons, Kansas City Monarchs, Cleveland Tigers, and…
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Grant D. Venerable was the first African-American graduate of the California Institute of Technology, earning a BS in engineering in 1932. He entered Caltech in 1929, as a transfer student from UCLA. An undergraduate residence hall at Caltech was named…
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Woods received dozens of patents, including railway communication and electrical innovations that improved transportation safety.
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Gray C. Selby (born c. 1853) was a farmer, teacher, and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Marshall County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1880 and 1881. He served with Confederate Army veteran, teacher, lawyer,…
1984-2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThese green medical scrubs were worn by Dr. Ben Carson. The shirt (a) is made from a seafoam green cotton and polyester blend fabric. It is a short sleeved, V-neck T-shirt with straight-cut sides. There is a white strip of fabric along the back collar…
1875–1963
Greene Fort Pinkston (born 1875 in Forest, Mississippi; died 1963) was an African-American medical doctor and landowner in Cordova, Tennessee.
1964–
Greer Barnes (born 1964) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for clever wordplay, observational humor, sketch comedy, mimicry, and energetic physical comedy. He has performed in comedy festivals, in commercials, on television and in films.
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Gregory L. Robinson is an American engineer and the former director of the James Webb Space Telescope Program at NASA.
Biography
Gregory Nathaniel Washington is an American mechanical engineer currently serving as the 8th president of George Mason University in Northern Virginia since July 2020. He previously served as dean of engineering at the University of California, Irvine from…
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Eddie Collins (born September 28, 1981), better known by his stage name Greydon Square, is an American rapper, producer and sound engineer from Compton, California. He is an Iraq War veteran, an outspoken atheist, and the owner/co-founder of Majestic…
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Griffin P. Rodgers is the director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, one of the 27 institutes that make up the United States National Institutes of Health. He is also the Chief of the institute's Molecular and…
1920s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph depicting a group five people, including James A. Parsons, Jr., standing on a sidewalk. Three women, all in light colored dresses, stand in the middle while the two men, both in dark suits, stand on either side. There are…
1942–
Aerospace engineer and pilot, Bluford flew aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983.
1889–1953
Gussie White (30 January 1889 – 23 January 1953) was an American archaeologist, civil rights activist, and Works Progress Administration employee, who in that role was one of the few named Black women (of at least 87 total) involved in the excavation of…
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Gwendolyn A. Foster is an U.S. Air Force brigadier general, nurse practitioner, and midwife. She is the director of staff to the surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force and the 19th chief nurse of the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps. Foster is the…
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Boyd (born December 27, 1955) is an American scientist and university administrator. She served as president of Alabama State University from 2014 to 2016. Before entering administration, she worked as a mechanical engineer at the Johns…
June 1, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of eight digital files: 2011.174.20.1a, 2011.174.20.1b, 2011.174.20.1c, 2011.174.20.1d, 2011.174.20.1e, 2011.174.20.1f, 2011.174.20.1g, and 2011.174.20.1h. Gwendolyn Patton discusses attending the Tuskegee Institute, where she…
Biography
Gwendolyn Stiggins Cruzat (born c. 1930) is professor emerita of the University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies. Her teaching and scholarship made significant contributions to medical librarianship.
1907–1997
Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler (December 8, 1907 – November 19, 1997) was an African-American pharmacist, the first black woman licensed in Iowa. She also became the first African-American woman from Iowa to serve in the United States Foreign Service, when she…
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