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Arthur Smith: Patterns - Dance Jewelry [Drawn by Camille Billops and Art Smith] (f. 5 of 7) — Series 4: The Art Smith Project and Retrospective Exhibitions

1988-1989, undated

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Cataloged as “Arthur Smith: Patterns - Dance Jewelry [Drawn by Camille Billops and Art Smith] (f. 5 of 7)”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2022.64_ref242
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BIOGRAPHY
Politics & Public Life

Arthur Tasker

Born 1834

Arthur Tasker (1834 - unknown) was a preacher and the first Black American to be elected mayor of Ponchatoula.

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Politics & Public Life

Arthur Teele

1946–2005

Arthur E. "Art" Teele Jr. (May 14, 1946 – July 27, 2005) was an American lawyer and politician from the Republican Party. In the early 1980s, he served as the head of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (now known as the Federal Transit…

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Science & Inventions

Arthur Thorpe

1933–2015

Arthur Nathaniel "Pete" Thorpe (26 April 1933 – 30 June 2015) was a physicist and professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was the second student to receive a PhD in physics from Howard, and helped to establish a cooperative degree program…

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Arts

Arthur Timótheo da Costa

1882–1922

Arthur Timótheo da Costa (12 November 1882 – 5 October 1922) was a Brazilian painter and designer.

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Civil Rights & Community

Arthur Torrington

Biography

Arthur Torrington CBE is a Guyanese-born community advocate and historian who is Director and co-founder of the London-based Windrush Foundation, a charity that since 1996 has been working to highlight the contributions to the UK of African and Caribbean…

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Politics & Public Life

Arthur Wergs Mitchell

1883–1968

Arthur Wergs Mitchell Sr. (December 22, 1883 – May 9, 1968) was an American politician and civil rights activist from Illinois. He represented Illinois's 1st congressional district for his entire tenure in the United States House of Representatives, from…

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Sports

Arthur Williams

1964–

Arthur James Williams (November 12, 1964 – April, 2023) was an American former professional boxer who competed between 1989 and 2010. He held the IBF cruiserweight title from 1998 to 1999 and challenged twice for the WBA cruiserweight title in 1994.

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Biography & Culture

Arthur Winston

1906–2006

Arthur Winston (March 22, 1906 – April 13, 2006) was a Los Angeles Metro employee for 76 years. He is best known for being honored as the "Employee of the Century" by the U.S. Department of Labor for his unparalleled reliability.

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Education & Scholarship

Arthuryne J. Welch-Taylor

1917–2022

Arthuryne Julia Andrews Welch-Taylor (March 11, 1917 – May 12, 2022) was an American educator. She taught at several HBCUs from the 1930s to the 1980s, culminating as a professor at the University of the District of Columbia, and a researcher with the…

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Historical photographs & visual records

Article entitled "Last of the Rain Queens?", in Libertas, regarding Mujaji, "Transformer of the Clouds," with photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee.

1946 December

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Cataloged as “Article entitled "Last of the Rain Queens?", in Libertas, regarding Mujaji, "Transformer of the Clouds," with photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee.”.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item 113
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Article entitled "Ndebele Art- and Constance Stuart." Page from magazine about Constance Stuart Larrabee's photography exhibit at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

undated

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Cataloged as “Article entitled "Ndebele Art- and Constance Stuart." Page from magazine about Constance Stuart Larrabee's photography exhibit at the Museum of Natural History in New York.”.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item 230
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Article entitled "The Bushmen of the Kalahari", in Natural History, with photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee.

1952 December

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Cataloged as “Article entitled "The Bushmen of the Kalahari", in Natural History, with photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee.”.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item 171
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Documents and Manuscripts

Article from the May 5, 2003 Sports Illustrated issue owned by Robert Johnson

May 5, 2003

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Pages 34-35 of the May 5, 2003 Sports Illustrated issue featuring the “101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports.” The partial article ranks Robert L. Johnson as number one of the 101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports. Page 34 features and article…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.16.3.2
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Article from The Milwaukee Journal, Sunday December 28, 1958, part 5, page 5, "Photographer of African Sculpture Is Also Painter, Scholar, Explorer" about Eliot Elisofon

1958

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Cataloged as “Article from The Milwaukee Journal, Sunday December 28, 1958, part 5, page 5, "Photographer of African Sculpture Is Also Painter, Scholar, Explorer" about Eliot Elisofon”.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog sova.eepa.1973-001_ref41603
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