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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 10 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Cataloged as “Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 10 of 12)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2022.64_ref138
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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 11 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 12 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 2 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 3 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 4 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 5 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2022.64_ref133
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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 6 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 7 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 8 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Jewelry - Small Drawings (f. 9 of 12) — Designs and Drawings

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Tools and Equipment

Jigger measuring cup from Lyons Hall

after 1907

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This a jigger shaped like a gavel.The jigger has narrow cup with two lines around the outside indicating the measurement of liquid. The cup has lip on left edge. On the left side of the cup at the top is etched text that reads "2oz." On the bottom of the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.257.3
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Literature

Jillian Christmas

Biography

Jillian Christmas is a Canadian poet from Vancouver, British Columbia. Her work focuses on anti-colonial narratives, family, heritage, and identity. She is most noted as the 2021 winner of the League of Canadian Poets' Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award for…

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Sports & Achievement

Jim Byrd

1968–

James Edward Byrd (born October 3, 1968) is an American former Major League Baseball player. He batted and threw right-handed. The Boston Red Sox selected Byrd in the eighth round of the 1987 MLB draft out of Seminole State College. He had a brief major…

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pamphlets

Jim Crow in Uniform

1940

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Black ink on yellowed paper, a drawing of young black men in helmets with guns over their shoulders with the title at the top left.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.1
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Biography & Culture

Jim Ellis

1947–

James Ellis (born 1947) is an American swim coach who founded the PDR (Philadelphia Department of Recreation, or Pride, Determination, Resilience) swim team in the Nicetown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as one of the few predominantly Black…

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Business & Enterprise

Jim Jordan

1871–1962

James Spurgeon Jordan ( JUR-dən; June 3, 1871 – January 28, 1962) was an American conjure doctor and businessman. Born to former slaves in eastern North Carolina, he learned folk healing practices from his family. His faith healing practice, using methods…

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Sports & Achievement

Jim Proctor

1935–

James Arthur Proctor (born September 9, 1935) is an American former professional baseball player. A pitcher, he appeared in two games for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball during the 1959 season. He is one of the last major-leaguers to play in…

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Sports & Achievement

Jim Rice

1953–

James Edward Rice (born March 8, 1953) is an American former professional baseball left fielder and designated hitter who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). Rice played his entire 16-year MLB career for the Boston Red Sox. In 2009, Rice was inducted…

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Civil Rights & Community

Jim Williams

Biography

Jim Williams (c. 1830 – March 6, 1871) was an American soldier and militia leader in the 1860s and 1870s in York County, South Carolina. He escaped slavery during the US Civil War and joined the Union Army. After the war, Williams led a black militia…

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Civil Rights

Jimmie Lee Jackson

1938–1965

Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 16, 1938 – February 26, 1965) was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist church. On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his…

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Photographs and Still Images

Jimmy Mannas

1972; printed February 2018

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A black-and-white photograph of Kamoinge Workshop member, Jimmy Mannas, captured by Anthony Barboza. The close-up portrait depicts Mannas from the neck up, his head slightly tilted towards the left side of the image. He is looking up and towards the right.…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.39.14
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Sports & Achievement

Jimmy McMath

1949–2010

Jimmy Lee McMath (August 10, 1949 – July 20, 2010) was an American professional baseball player. He played part of the 1968 season in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs, primarily as a left fielder. Listed at 6 feet 1+1⁄2 inches (1.87 m), 195…

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Historical photographs & visual records

Jimoh Iyanda with egungun costume, Ile Alapinni

1981

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Cataloged as “Jimoh Iyanda with egungun costume, Ile Alapinni” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2014-003, Item EEPA_2013-015-1196
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