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Time-based Media - Moving Images

Home movie footage of the Selma to Montgomery march

March 21, 1965

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A home movie with footage of the Sunday, March 21, 1965, march from Selma to Montgomery. There are two copies of it, one on 8mm color acetate film (2011.176.1.1a) and another on DVD (2011.176.1.2a), both of which are silent. An original 50-foot plastic…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.176.1
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Time-based Media - Moving Images

Home movie footage taken in Hunts Point, NY

ca.1949

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16mm, silent, black-and-white film of the Hunts Point neighborhood in the Bronx, New York. The footage includes storefronts, street scenes, and cars. The film begins with a street scene. A police car is driving towards the camera, and the camera follows…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.15.1a
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Historical photographs & documents

Home movie with footage of South Africa

1957-1977

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Cataloged as “Home movie with footage of South Africa” (Motion picture film).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2012.79.av_ref288
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home of Helmut Stauch, Pretoria (South Africa)

1960

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Cataloged as “Home of Helmut Stauch, Pretoria (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-065178
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home of Lady Stella Bailey, Cape Town (South Africa)

1960

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Cataloged as “Home of Lady Stella Bailey, Cape Town (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-065289
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home of Lady Stella Bailey, outdoor lighting, Cape Town (South Africa)

1960

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Cataloged as “Home of Lady Stella Bailey, outdoor lighting, Cape Town (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-065288
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home of Maitre Kanga

1987

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Image used in the video production entitled,"Patterns of Life: West-African Strip Weaving Traditions," produced by Caribiner, Inc. under contract for the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1987. Image taken by Gavin Ashworth, 1987.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1991-005, Item EEPA 1991-050160
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home of Mr. Ian Smith and Janet Smith, Harare (Zimbabwe)

1979

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Cataloged as “Home of Mr. Ian Smith and Janet Smith, Harare (Zimbabwe)” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-065779
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home of Stuart and Tiny Cloete, Cape Town (South Africa)

1949

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Cataloged as “Home of Stuart and Tiny Cloete, Cape Town (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-064997
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home on Lake Nokoue with fetish statue, Natitingou to Bohicon, Benin

2004 November 17

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Home on Lake Nokoue with fetish statue. People live on the lake in stilted wood homes. Original Carousel number, 4, slide number, 71.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0466
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gelatin silver prints

Home on the Hudson

1930s

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Home on the Hudson - Coal Barge, New York, 1930's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 177. A black-and-white photograph of a man in a white tank-top standing on a barge. In front of him, a dog looks up at the camera.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.74.136
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Historical photographs & visual records

Home, stores, street in Bobo area

2000-01-26

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Home, stores, street in Bobo area. Original Carousel number, 8, slide number, 29.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0902
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Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor

Homer Laughlin China Company round covered vegetable bowl

August 1927

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A Homer Laughlin China Company round covered vegetable bowl (2011.12.42a) with cover (2011.12.42b) from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. 2011.12.42a: A Homer Laughlin China Company round vegetable bowl. The bowl is "Yellowstone," or octagonally, shaped,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.42ab
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Civil Rights & Community

Homer Plessy

Biography

Homer Adolph Plessy (born Homère Patris Plessy; 1858, 1862 or March 17, 1863 – March 1, 1925) was an American shoemaker and activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson. He staged an act of civil…

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Music

Honey Dijon

1968–

Honey Redmond, (born in 1968), known professionally as Honey Dijon, is an American DJ, producer, and electronic musician. She was born in Chicago and is based in New York City and Berlin. She has performed at clubs, festivals, art fairs, galleries and…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Racist and Stereotypical Objects

"Honey, Does Yo Lub Yo Man!"

1897

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This stereoview card depicts a group of men, women, and children in a wedding scene. Consisting of two similar images side by side, the card is arranged with the images in the center. At either end of the card is vertical script. Words at the left side…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.248.4.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Honor and Dignity

2010; printed 2021

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This is a color archival pigment print from a digital file. The photograph depicts a man and a woman standing side by side during the Hispanic Heritage Day Parade in New York City. The man is standing on the left with his proper left arm around the woman…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.63.8
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Clothing - Military Uniforms

Honorable discharge "Ruptured Duck" pin worn by Ensign Cassin Craig

1943-1946

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Honorable discharge “Ruptured Duck” pin used by Ensign Cassin Craig. The gold-colored metal lapel pin features an eagle with its wings splayed. There is a ring around the eagle with several vertical stripes at the bottom. The proper right wing is behind…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.113.6.7
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Hood worn by an unidentified member of the Ku Klux Klan

ca. 1935

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An off-white conical-shaped Ku Klux Klan hood with an attached back flap with squared corners worn by a member of an undetermined rank. Rough eye holes are cut into the front of the mask. A crease is on the left side of the mask. Several brown stains are…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.231.1.1
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Hooded sweatshirt worn by Wallace while incarcerated

2009-2013

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A dark grey Champion U.S.A. hooded sweatshirt worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in Louisiana. The cotton and polyester blend hoodie features a drawstring and zipper. A red, white and blue tag is sewn to the inside…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2018.36.1.21.2
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Clothing - Costume

Hoodie from the costume worn by Luke Cage in the "Crispus Attucks" scene

ca. 2016-2018

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A charcoal and yellow bullet-riddled hoodie from the costume worn by Mike Colter as the character Luke Cage on the episode "Who's Gonna Take the Weight?" (103) of Marvel’s television series “Luke Cage.” This heavyweight dark grey Carthartt cotton fleece…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.47.2.1
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Hoodie worn by Bishop John Bryant to the White House Easter Prayer Breakfast

April 4, 2012

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A dark gray hooded sweatshirt with full-length sleeves and a kangaroo patch pocket worn by Bishop John Richard Bryant to the Easter Prayer Breakfast at the White House on April 4, 2012. The word "NIKE" above the Nike brand swoosh logo is printed in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.85
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Hoodie worn by Marian Wright Edelman for a Children's Defense Fund photo shoot

2012

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Gray hooded sweat shirt worn by Marian Wright Edelmen for a Children's Defense Fund photo shoot related to Justic for Trayvon events and publications. The sweat shirt has a half-zip center front closure with a gray plastic zipper, full-length sleeves with…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.132
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Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Hoodie worn by Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley delivering a sermon on Trayvon Martin

March 25, 2012

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A long-sleeved black hooded sweatshirt worn by Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley while giving the sermon "A Rizpah Response" on March 25, 2012, at Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia. The cotton and polyester blend sweatshirt has full-length…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.159.1
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