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6-10-1991
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “ANTHRAX/Public Enemy Bring the Noise” (Text).
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Anti-Lynching Legislation, 1945-1947” (Text).
Biography
Antionette D. Carroll is an activist and entrepreneur working for racial and health equity. She looks at systems of oppression from a design perspective. In Carroll’s mind, the same way a machine can be redesigned so can these social systems.
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Antonio Luiz Paranhos Ribeiro Leite de Brito, or simply Antonio Brito (January 17, 1969) is a Brazilian business administrator and politician, member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He is a federal deputy for Bahia and former president of the…
Biography
Anu Prestonia is an African-American hairdresser based in New York. She is considered an expert in the field of natural hair styling for black women. Prestonia grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, and later moved to New York City at 10 years old.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of applications for and records relating to restoration of property, September 1865–May 1866 (274), is arranged chronologically. The volume also contains complaints relating to the restoration of property (September 1865).
2004
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA lined blank book used as a date book, with hand-drawn lines and handwritten labels. The covers are black paper with a red cloth spine and outer corners. On the front cover, a collage of clippings reading "The / Dixie Hummingbirds / 75th / Anniversary…
1852
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn appraisal conducted on September 10, 1852 on a plantation owned by Elisha F. King in Bibbs County, Alabama. The appraisal is handwritten with blue ink, recorded on both sides of a single sheet of blue paper, folded in half to make four pages. Written in…
1967–
April Harris-Holmes (born March 25, 1967) is an American singer and businesswoman from Hawthorne, New Jersey, best known for being in the group Seduction.
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Archer Alexander (1816 – December 8, 1879) was a formerly enslaved American man who served as the model for the "emancipated slave" in the Emancipation Memorial 1876 located in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. He was the subject of an 1885 biography, The…
1928–2005
Archie Byron (February 2, 1928 – August 29, 2005) was an American sculptor, painter, small business owner, city councilman for the city of Atlanta (1982–1990), and political activist. He claimed to have co-founded the first African-American owned detective…
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Architectural Record Business Design Engineering, 1989” (Text).
1896–1989
Ardie A. Clark Halyard (1896–1989) was a banker, activist and first woman president of the Milwaukee chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
1983–
Ariell Johnson is a business owner and accountant and is the first African-American to own a comic store on the east coast of the United States.
1980–
Arlan Hamilton (born 1980) is an American Venture capitalist, investor, author, and entrepreneur. She is the founder and managing partner of Backstage capital, a venture capital firm established in 2015 that invests in startups led by founders who are…
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Arlie Oswald Petters, MBE (born February 8, 1964) is a Belizean-American mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor of mathematics and a professor of physics and economics at Duke University. Petters became the provost at New York…
2000
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Armageddon 2000: The Public Enemy Game” (Text).
mid 20th Century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG2011.12.2ab: An upholstered armchair (2011.12.2a) with cushion (2011.12.2b) from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. 2011.12.2a: An upholstered armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The overstuffed chair is covered with an orange-brown woven fabric that covers…
1945–
Armet Francis (born 29 January 1945) is a Jamaican-born photographer and publisher who has lived in London, England, since the 1950s. He has been documenting and chronicling the lives of people of the African diaspora for more than 40 years and his…
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Armstrong Williams (born February 5, 1959) is an American conservative political commentator, entrepreneur, author, and talk show host. Williams writes a nationally syndicated conservative newspaper column, has hosted a daily radio show, and hosts a…
1936-1953
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Art Smith #1 - Early Press Clippings”.
1936-1953
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Art Smith #1 - Early Press Clippings, Oversized”.
undated
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Art Smith Illustrated Catalogue”.
circa 1981
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Art Smith Jewelry Business Cards and Design for Brooklyn Card”.
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