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MUSEUM OBJECT
Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Change purse belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

1945-1970

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This is a small taffeta change purse belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. This small purse is light tangerine in color and has a hinged opening with a metal snap clasp. The change purse has a bright blue silk lining. It was found inside A2022.13.1.57.1, a blue…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2022.13.1.57.2
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Historical photographs & visual records

Changeurs de Monnaies marché de Tananarive

ca. 1910

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Original caption reads, "Money Changes, Tananarive Market.".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA MG 2012-001-0394
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Business & Enterprise

Channing Dungey

1969–

Channing Nicole Dungey (born March 14, 1969) is an American television executive and the first black American president of a major broadcast television network. In 2020, she was announced as the new chairwoman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television.

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Literature

Channing Godfrey Peoples

Biography

Channing Godfrey Peoples is an American writer, director, and producer. Her feature film directorial debut Miss Juneteenth received critical acclaim.

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Arts & Performance

Channique Sterling-Brown

1997–

Channique Sterling-Brown (born 18 April 1997) is an English actress. She began her career appearing in various stage productions including Hedda Gabler, Summerfolk and Clybourne Park. In 2022, she began portraying the role of Dee Dee Bailey on the ITV1…

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Literature

Chantal Gibson

Biography

Chantal Gibson is a Canadian writer, poet, artist, and educator. Her 2019 poetry collection How She Read won the 2020 Pat Lowther Award, the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, and was a shortlisted 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize…

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Music

Chantay Savage

1971–

Chantay Savage is an American R&B/dance singer. She experienced some success in the 1990s on various Billboard singles charts, one of which was "I Will Survive", a reworking of the Gloria Gaynor hit song. Savage has scored various charting hits on other US…

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BIOGRAPHY
Literature

Chanté Moore

1967–

Chanté Torrane Moore (born February 17, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, television personality, and author. The first signee with record executive Louis Silas, Jr.'s Silas Records, she rose to prominence with her debut studio…

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Film & Television

Chantel Riley

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Chantel Riley (born 27 June 1986) is a Canadian actress. Riley made her stage debut in 2011 playing the character of Nala in a German production of Disney's The Lion King in Hamburg. The following year she played the same character on Broadway. A move into…

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Biography & Culture

Chantelle Lindsay

1994–

Chantelle Shikira Lindsay (born 1994) is an English wildlife conservationist and television presenter.

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Historical photographs & visual records

Chanters of ijala

1977-07-09

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Cataloged as “Chanters of ijala” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2014-003, Item EEPA_2013-015-1402
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Historical photographs & visual records

"Chanteuse felah." [ Singer Felah.], Egypt

c. 1909

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Chanteuse felah.; 66746.; UNION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE[,] EGYPTE[,] CARTE POSTALE.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2001-001, Item EEPA 2001-001-1477
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Historical photographs & visual records

"CHAPEL OF THE NOBEL MUSICIANS", Egypt

Date not recorded

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THEBES -- CHAPEL OF THE NOBEL MUSICIANS; LEHNERT & LANDROCK & Co[,] CAIRO[,] ART PUBLISHERS [logo]; Copyright by Lehnert & Landrock & Co. Cairo; [Arabic script][,] POST CARD[,] A. R. E.. Published by Lehnert & Landrock & Co. Cairo.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2001-001, Item EEPA 2001-001-6398
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Historical photographs & visual records

"CHAPEL OF THE NOBEL'S LADIES MEETINGS", Egypt

Date not recorded

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THEBES -- CHAPEL OF THE NOBEL'S LADIES MEETINGS; LEHNERT & LANDROCK & Co[,] CAIRO[,] ART PUBLISHERS [logo]; Copyright by Lehnert & Landrock & Co. Cairo; [Arabic script][,] POST CARD[,] A. R. E.. Published by Lehnert & Landrock & Co. Cairo.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2001-001, Item EEPA 2001-001-6395
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Historical photographs & documents

Chaplin, Andrew S.

1993 June 21

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Cataloged as “Chaplin, Andrew S.” (Audio; Audio cassette).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2012.79.av_ref11
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Chaptman Ferguson - 1995

1995; printed 2014

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A black-and-white gelatin silver print portrait of Chapman Ferguson, survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Ferguson is depicted sitting outside on a wood bench, wearing a white hat, white shirt and dark colored pants. His hands are resting flat on the bench…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.206.1
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Historical photographs & visual records

Chapungu Sculpture Park, Harare, Zimbabwe

1995

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Cataloged as “Chapungu Sculpture Park, Harare, Zimbabwe” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1995-002, Item EEPA 1995-020025
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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Chardine Taylor-Stone

1985–

Chardine Taylor-Stone is a British feminist activist, writer and musician. She was the drummer of punk band Big Joanie between 2013 and 2023. She founded Stop Rainbow Racism to campaign against the performance of "blackface" at LGBTQ+ venues in 2015.

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Chared Negro Killed in Tulsa Riot 6-1-1921

1921

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A sepia-toned photographic postcard depicting the body of an unidentified victim of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The close up image shows the charred remains of a person lying on the ground amid debris. Across the bottom of the image, written into the negative…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.175.7
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Music

Charenee Wade

Biography

Charenee Wade is an American jazz, soul and R&B singer, composer, arranger, improvisor, and educator.

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Visual Arts

Charge of the 24th and 25th Colored Infantry and Rescue of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill, July 2nd, 1898

1899

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A chromolithograph framed and dry-mounted to a large piece of matte. It has had several archival repairs. The image features American forces, in blue and carrying an American flag, charging towards an ongoing battle between American and Spanish forces. The…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2008.2.2
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Historical photographs & visual records

[Charging rhinoceros in Ngorongoro Crater], Tanzania

Date not recorded

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Cataloged as “[Charging rhinoceros in Ngorongoro Crater], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0450
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Historical photographs & visual records

[Charging rhinoceros in Ngorongoro Game Park], Tanzania

1966-08

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Cataloged as “[Charging rhinoceros in Ngorongoro Game Park], Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0200
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Arts & Performance

Charisse Pearlina Weston

1988–

Charisse Pearlina Weston (born 1988) is an American conceptual artist. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, she uses glass as a symbol of fragility.

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