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MUSEUM OBJECT
Visual Arts

Hollow-cut silhouette of unidentified member of the Dickey family

ca. 1825

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Hollow-cut silhouette unspecified member of the Dickey family, possibly Mary Jackson Dickey, Margaret Irvine Dickey, or Helen Dickey. Silhouette faces proper left or the viewer's right and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.21.2.6
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Slavery and Freedom Objects

Hollow-cut silhouette portrait of Rachel Creefield

ca. 1825

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Hollow-cut silhouette portrait of Rachel Creefield (a) with handwritten label (b). The silhouette faces proper left or the viewer's right and is created by a darker sheet of paper placed under a light colored paper that has had a negative image traced and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.21.2.1ab
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Slavery and Freedom Objects

Hollow plane made by Cesar Chelor

1753-1784

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A wooden hollow plane. There is evidence of older dents, abrasions, and scratches. There is one minor checking crack on the stock's side. There is a notable loss from a knot in the wood at the proper left heel of the stock. In relief on toe, oriented…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.8.15
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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & documents

Holman Family Home Movie #1

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Holman Family Home Movie #1”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref960
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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & documents

Holman Family Home Movie #2

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Holman Family Home Movie #2”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref961
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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & documents

Holman Family Home Movie #3

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Holman Family Home Movie #3”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref962
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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & documents

Holman Family Home Movie #4

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Holman Family Home Movie #4”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref963
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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & documents

Holman Family Home Movie #5

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Holman Family Home Movie #5”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref964
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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & documents

Holman Family Home Movie #6

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Holman Family Home Movie #6”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref965
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ARCHIVE FILE
Archival documents & files

Holman Family Home Movies — Great Migration Home Movie Study Collection

circa 1995

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The Holman Family Videos consist of gatherings of family and friends, vacations, commencement ceremonies, musical recitals, wedding anniversaries, and church services.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref681
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Slavery and Freedom Objects

Holy Bible

1869

FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG

A printed copy of the Christian Bible printed in 1869, containing the family history of Richard Collins. Blank pages between the Old Testament and the New Testament are filled in with the marriage, birth, and death dates of various members of Collins's…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.173
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Books and Published Materials

Holy Bible

1928 - 1935

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A leather bound, illustrated bible with sides that once zipped closed to protect the pages; the zipper is now completely disconnected from the front cover. The front cover has black text in the top left quadrant which reads: [HOLY BIBLE / ILLUSTRATED]. In…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.8.2
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Sacred and Ceremonial Objects

Holy Bible from New Bethany Baptist Church

1970

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Hardback copy of the Bible. Cover is black, with incised decorations as borders (resembles an illustrated manuscript kind of style). Silver stickers on top of front cover, spell out "HOLY / BIBLE". Interior pages extremely thing, white with black type. Has…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.260ab
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Holy, Holy, Holy

September 1981

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A black and white photographic print of 12 people participating in a baptism in Lake Michigan. Three people are standing on the shore while two men are helping two women through the water. The women are holding hands and the woman on the left is wearing a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.118.29
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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & visual records

Home and yard in witches village

2004 November 12

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Home and yard in witches' village. Original Carousel number, 2, Slide number, 120.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0253
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MUSEUM OBJECT
gelatin silver prints

Home from School

1940s

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Home from School - Ralph Avenue, Kingsboro Tenants, Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, New York, 1940's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 90. A black-and-white photograph of three boys crossing the street. In the background, more children…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.74.76
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MUSEUM OBJECT
gelatin silver prints

Home From School II

1940s

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A black-and-white photograph of children walking down a city sidewalk towards the camera on their way home from school.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.74.171
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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & visual records

Home garden, Johannesburg (South Africa)

1960

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Cataloged as “Home garden, Johannesburg (South Africa)” (Photographic transparencies).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-068514
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home garden with yellow flowers, Johannesburg (South Africa)

1960

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Cataloged as “Home garden with yellow flowers, Johannesburg (South Africa)” (Photographic transparencies).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-068511
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home in, Antananarivo, Madagascar

2003-08-24

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Original Carousel 16, slide 7.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-1925
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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & visual records

Home in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar

2003-09-01

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Original Carousel 17, slide 71.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-2125
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home in the village of Goumo on Bandiagara

2000-01-29

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Home in the village of Goumo on Bandiagara. Original Carousel number, 9, slide number, 113.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-1121
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home in Tsemay village, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia

2010-10-06

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Original Carousel 25, slide 63.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-3147
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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & documents

Home movie footage of an American Labor Party Christmas party

circa 1951

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Film footage of an American Labor Party Christmas party at an unidentified location; includes footage of Paul Robeson.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2012.79.av_ref290
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