Black and white image of two (2) women, one seated on a bed and the other standing and bent over the torso of the seated woman. The standing woman, Mary Francis Hill Coley, on the left side of the image, wears a light-colored dress with white cuffs on her…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.15
Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp arranging items on a bed. On the left side of the image Sapp, seen in profile, wearing a plaid patterned dress. She is seen smiling at the other woman as her proper right side faces the camera. Her hands…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.26
Black and white image of Mary Coley and Martha Sapp. Coley is assisting in the birthing of Sapp. Coley on the left, stands over Sapp who is lying in bed. Coley wears a nurses' cap, light-colored smock and a towel over her proper left shoulder. She pulls up…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.9
Black and white image of a man running to a truck. The truck, seen left of center in the yard of a house, is dark colored and is missing a hub cap on the back tire. The front of the truck is dented falling apart. On the either side of the bed of the truck…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.12
Black and white image of a woman scrubbing her hands. All that is seen of the woman is her torso, arms, and hands. Her hands are in the lower half of the image and in her proper right hand is a small bush. The woman uses the brush to scrub the ring finger…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.18
Black and white image of Mary Coley, Martha Sapp, and a small baby. In the lower right corner Martha Sapp is laying in bed. She looks away from the camera at Mary Coley seated to her right. Coley is on the left side of the image, looks at the woman in bed…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.6
Black and white image of a family in the kitchen. Mary Francis Hill Coley stands in the center, scraping a plate. She wears a paisley printed blouse and a light-colored apron. Behind Coley an older woman stands, wearing a dark shirt with a light-colored…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.2
Black and white image of women's hands. On the left side of the image is one pair of hands with the person holding a packet of cotton swabs, center, in their proper left hand. The person's proper left hand is rests on the finial of a chair back. In the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.10
Black and white image of two (2) women, Mary Francis Hill Coley and Martha Butler Sapp in an interior room of a house. Sapp is visibly pregnant and seated in a chair, wearing a terry cloth robe and a hair wrap. Coley stands in front of Sapp and rests her…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.30
Black and white image of two (2) women, one seated and one standing over the other. Both women stand in a room with a mantel and stove on the left side, a crib behind them up against the far wall as well as a door on the right. The stove can be seen in the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.1.38
A black-and-white photograph of Grandassa model Nomsa Brath protesting in front of the Wigs Parisian store front on 125th Street in Harlem, New York. Brath's hair is cropped into a short afro style and she is wearing a white, sleeveless, knee length dress,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.26.4
High-backed wooden side chair with an upholstered seat and back. The chair has early Baroque ball turned front legs and straight back legs. There is a carved scallop with feathered edges at the center of the front stretcher, the side stretchers are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.27.2
An upholstered yellow high-backed armchair with a wooden frame painted off-white. The top of the back edge is higher in the middle, and with a turned finial at each side. The arms are rectangular and flat, with turned bulbous front section reaching between…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.186
An aqua blue painted upright piano used by producer and arranger Thom Bell in his office at Philadelphia International Records. The lid of the piano is hinged and can open to reveal the frame, hammer rail and hammers. At the top of the frame in the upper…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.203
Uriah Bell (born December 28, 1978) is a poet, writer, publisher and founder of Rising Voices Press, and most recently, the editor in chief of TRUTH Magazine, a bi-monthly national publication for LGBTQ persons of color.
Urias Africanus McGill (c. 1823 – 1866) was an African-American who emigrated with his family to Liberia in the 19th century. He was a member of the well-known McGill family, and he and his brothers established a successful trading business out of Monrovia.
Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American businesswoman. Burns was the CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016. Burns was the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.
A used red Stabilo brand pencil from Mae's Millinery Shop. The graphite is encased in wood that is painted red. White letter is partially rubbed off the side. There is no eraser, but a rounded wooden end painted black.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.195
Vaino Hassan Spencer (July 22, 1920 – October 25, 2016) was an American judge, the first African-American woman appointed to a judgeship in California. She co-founded the Black Women Lawyers Association in 1975, and the National Association of Women Judges…
Val Irvine McCalla (3 October 1943 – 22 August 2002) was a Jamaican accountant and media entrepreneur who settled in Britain in 1959. He is best known as the founder of The Voice, a British weekly newspaper aimed at the Britain's black community, which he…
Valeisha Butterfield is an American businesswoman. She was the Vice President of Partnerships & Engagement at Google, Inc and was formerly co-president of The Recording Academy.
Valeria Lynch Lee (born 1942 in Halifax County, North Carolina) is an African American philanthropist and an advocate for public media in North Carolina. Lee was a co-founder of one of the first black public radio stations in the nation and has served as…
Valerie June Jarrett (née Bowman; born November 14, 1956) is an American businesswoman, attorney and former government official who has been the chief executive officer of the Obama Foundation since 2021. She was the longest-serving senior advisor to…
Valorie Burton is a life coach, author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute (CaPP). Burton has been featured on the TODAY Show and the Dr.
