2019.30.2.2ab A typewriter twin spool assembly for a half inch ribbon used by Cortez W. Peters, Sr. 2019.30.2.2a A typewriter left spool for a half inch ribbon used by Cortez W. Peters, Sr. The spool is constructed from black metal. It has two round plates…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.30.2.2ab
A Royal FP Elite Typewriter used by Cortez W. Peters, Sr. The typewriter has a tan on gray body with an off-white keytop. The typewriter has a “QUERTY” keytop. Just above is a red Royal logo that it also a button for the latch release for the top cover.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.30.2.1
This is a half sheet of paper with the formula for making Poro Hair Rinse. The typed text is centered on the page and justified on the left. The title is centered. The text reads "F ORMULA (sic) FOR MAKING THE PORO RINSE./ Break 1 egg into a pint of luke…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.170.16
Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973) is an American model, television personality, producer, writer, actress, and businesswoman. She began her career as a model at the age of 15 and was the first African American woman to be featured on the covers of…
Tyrone Edwards is a Canadian television broadcaster and entrepreneur, currently the cohost of CTV's entertainment magazine show eTalk. He first became locally prominent in Toronto in the 2000s as a partner in 1LoveTO, a Toronto community and entertainment…
A black and white digital image of Tyrone Roper inside the D&F Bar on James Island, South Carolina. He is wearing a hat, light colored shirt and a vest. He is looking to his right and is standing underneath a chandelier advertising Schlitz Beer. 24.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.49.8
Two unedited audio files for an oral history interview with Frank Wright. The files are held in Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE) (.wav). Mr. Frank Wright was interviewed by Kelly Elaine Navies on August 19th, 2012, at his daughter’s home in Hebron,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.61.1.2ab
Una G. Mulzac (April 19, 1923 – January 21, 2012) was an African American bookseller and founder of the Liberation Bookstore, a prominent African-American bookstore specializing in political and Black Power materials and was located in Harlem.
A black-and-white image of a member of the Una Sewing Co-op making a doll. The image is in portrait orientation and depicts a close up of a woman's hands sewing a black doll. She is holding the head of the doll in her PL hand, and is pulling a piece of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.23.12.8
A black-and-white image of a member of the Una Sewing Co-op making a doll. The image is in portrait orientation and depicts a close-up shot of a woman (her PL side) cutting a piece of fabric. The woman's hair is wrapped, and she is wearing a white sweater…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.23.12.2
An Underwood typewriter (2012.123.1a) with attachable traveling case (2012.123.1b). Typewriter is black with the ribbon still intact. All keys are present. Also included is a gray traveling case for the typewriter. The typewriter attaches to the case.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.123.1ab
A motion picture film with the title Underworld. It consists of two (2) reels of 16mm black-and-white acetate film with optical sound (2012.79.1.33.1a and 2012.79.1.33.1b). When recent college graduate Paul Bronson (Sol Johnson) moves from the South to…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.79.1.33.1ab
Cataloged as “University of Southern California School of Architecture Presents Norma Sklarek, FAIA And Why Not - Career of a Black Woman Architect” (Text).
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2018.23_ref36
Unoma Ndili Okorafor is a Nigerian computer scientist and entrepreneur. Okorafor founded Working to Advance African Women, a non-profit that supports the education of African women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in 2007. She is the…
The piece is made up of squares or diamonds (depending on proper orientation) of four metals soldered together and increasing in size from top to bottom. The smallest and top square is silver. The second square is copper and the third brass.The last and…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.110.1.1
Black and white image of woman bathing a baby. The woman, seated center, holds a small baby in her lap with her left hand while her right hand dips a washcloth in the water basin. In her lap is towel. She wears a dark colored dress with a white, square…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.39
Black and white image of two (2) women arranging items on a bed. On the left side of the image is a woman, seen in profile, wearing a plaid patterned dress. She is seen smiling as her proper right side faces the camera. Her hands are resting on the edge of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.40
Black and white image of a woman staring at the camera, seen from the torso up. She wears a striped dress in alternating light and dark stripes. She stands at three-quarter profile view with her proper left arm along the lower portion of the image. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.43
