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Historical photographs & documents

Candace Oubre Family Home Movie #9

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “Candace Oubre Family Home Movie #9”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref1107
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Journalism

Candi Carter

1969–

Candi Carter (born February 19, 1969) is an American broadcast executive and television talk show producer. She has won two Daytime Emmy Awards, one in 1994 for Outstanding Children's Programming Special on WISN-TV, and another in 2020 for Outstanding…

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Literature

Candice Carty-Williams

1989–

Candice Carty-Williams (born 21 July 1989) is a British writer, best known for her 2019 debut novel, Queenie. She has written for publications including The Guardian, i-D, Vogue, The Sunday Times, BEAT Magazine, and Black Ballad, and is a contributor to…

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Literature

Candice Glover

1989–

Candice Rickelle Glover (born November 22, 1989) is an American R&B singer and actress who won the twelfth season of American Idol. Glover is the first winner to have auditioned three times before being cast for the live shows. Her debut album Music Speaks…

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Biography & Culture

Candice Iloh

Biography

Candice Iloh (stylized in lowercase as candice iloh) is a queer, first-generation Nigerian-American writer, poet, educator and dancer. Their debut novel, Every Body Looking, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and…

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Biography & Culture

Candice Stewart

1984–

Candice Dontrelle Stewart (born September 19, 1983) is an American television personality and beauty pageant titleholder from Metairie, Louisiana. She competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants. In addition to her pageantry career, she…

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Education & Scholarship

Candida Alvarez

1955–

Candida Alvarez (born 1955) is an American artist and professor, known for her paintings and drawings. Alvarez has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Her work…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
gelatin silver prints

Candida's Bridal Party, Chelsea

1986-1990

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A black-and-white photograph of three bridesmaids and two flower girls taken candidly in an interior setting.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.76.2
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Historical photographs & visual records

Candido Lodge, Ikenne, Nigeria

1973-10-18

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Original text on slide reads, "Candido Lodge. #2 Market St on West End of town. South side of Main road. Home of the Dada Ibeji. Mother is Ikenne Native and father is probably at Lagos. One is male and one is female. Both have long braided hair. Their…

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1263
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Time-based Media - Moving Images

Candie Carawan and Guy Hughes Carawan Oral History Interview

September 19, 2011

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The oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.52.1a, 2011.174.52.1b, 2011.174.52.1c, 2011.174.52.1d, and 2011.174.52.1e. Candie Carawan recalls attending Fisk University as an exchange student and meeting civil rights activists in Nashville,…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.174.52.1a-e
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Arts & Performance

Candis Pettway

1924–1997

Candis Mosely Pettway (November 25, 1924 – May 22, 1997) was an American artist. She is associated with the Freedom Quilting Bee and the Gee's Bend group of quilters, alongside her daughters Qunnie Pettway, Sally Mae Pettway, and Edwina Pettway.

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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Candle holder by Art Smith with white taper candle

1950s

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A silver metal candle holder (a) designed and created by Art Smith, with a white candle (b). The candle holder’s body is made of thin silver alloy circles in various sizes soldered together to form a spherical shape. A single circle is flat at the bottom…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.16.7ab
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Arts & Performance

Candy Brown

Biography

Candy Brown (also known as Candy Brown Houston) is an American dancer, choreographer and theatre, film and television actress.

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Literature

Candy Dawson Boyd

1946–

Candy Dawson Boyd (born August 8, 1946) is an American writer, activist, and educator. She is an author of more than six children's books focused on African-American youth.

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Arts & Performance

Candy Ford

Biography

Candy Ford is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for starring in the sketch comedy, The Rerun Show, Ford has also appeared in other TV programs including: Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 1, Episode 2), Will & Grace, and she provided voicework…

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Music

Candyman

1968–

John B. Shaffer III (born June 25, 1968), known by his stage name Candyman and also as Candell Manson, is an American rapper and record producer. He is best known for his hit single "Knockin' Boots". Candyman appears in the front row on N.W.A. and the…

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Music

Canela Cox

1984–

Canela Cox, known mononynously as Canela (pronounced Kuh-NAY-luh), is an American R&B singer and songwriter. She is best known in the mixtape circuit for her DJ Clue-remixed song, "Sponsor", and for co-writing Anastacia's worldwide top 20 hit "Why'd You…

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Literature

Canisia Lubrin

1984–

Canisia Lubrin (born 1984) is a writer, critic, professor, poet and editor. Originally from St. Lucia, Lubrin now lives in Whitby, Ontario, Canada.

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Historical photographs & visual records

Cannon, Fort St. Jago, Ghana

1986

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Donor notes read: "Fort St. Jago; cannon. The date on the slide is AUG 86.".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-0477
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Cannon on road leading up to Apam Fort

1986

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Donor notes read: "Cannon on road leading up to Apam Fort. Trip along coast with Albert Van Dantzig and family. Jan. 6-8, 1986. The date on the slide is FEB 86.".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-2004
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Cannon with town below, Fort Victoria at Cape Coast

1986

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Donor notes read: "Fort Victoria at Cape Coast, Nov. 9, 1986; cannon with town below. The date on the slide is DEC 86.".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-0860
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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Cannonball Adderley

1928–1975

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Adderley is perhaps best remembered by the general public for the 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy,…

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Cannons at Cape Coast Casle Fortress

2004 November 5

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Cannons at Cape Coast Casle Fortress, Castle Fortress. Original Carousel number, 1, Slide number, 36.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0033
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