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1978–
Sarah Bond (born October 27, 1978) is an American business executive and former president of Xbox at Microsoft, where she oversaw the brand's operations as a platform and ecosystem, including hardware and devices, player and creator experiences, platform…
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Sarah Boone (née Sarah Marshall; c. 1832 – 1904) was an African-American inventor.
c. 1850–1905
A Chicago furniture-store owner, Goode patented a folding cabinet bed in 1885 that made efficient use of space in small urban homes.
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Sarah Elizabeth Tanner (May 18, 1840 — August 2, 1914) was active as a missionary worker and a religious leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was the wife of Benjamin Tucker Tanner. She was the mother of the artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and…
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Sarah Garland Boyd Jones (née Sarah Garland Boyd; 1866 – May 11, 1905) was an American physician from the U.S. state of Virginia. She was the first African-American woman to receive a certificate from the Virginia State Medical Examining Board and…
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Sarah Marinda Loguen Fraser, née Loguen, (January 29, 1850 – April 9, 1933) was an American physician and pediatrician. She was the fourth female African-American physician in the United States, and the first female doctor in the Dominican Republic. The…
1889–1999
Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with her younger sister Bessie, of the oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100…
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Sarah Parker Remond (June 6, 1826 – December 13, 1894) was an American-born British lecturer, activist, abolitionist campaigner and Italian physician. Born a free woman in the state of Massachusetts, she became an international activist for human rights…
1984–2016
Sarah Lynne Reed (22 June 1984 – 11 January 2016) was a British prisoner waiting for psychiatric reports before a possible trial. A woman with a history of mental health problems, and a victim of police brutality a few years earlier, Reed died while on…
Biography
Sarah Susannah Willie-LeBreton is an American sociologist and academic administrator who has been the 12th president of Smith College since 2023. She was previously the provost and dean of faculty at Swarthmore College from 2018 to 2023.
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Sasha Deborah Turner is a Jamaican-American historian who is an associate professor of history of at the Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Medicine. Her research considers the history of the Caribbean, with a particular focus on…
1963–
Scott Vernon Edwards is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and the Curator of Ornithology at Harvard's associated museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
1943–
Scott Williams (born April 22, 1943, in Staten Island, New York) is a professor of mathematics at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.
1940-1945
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA scrapbook created by Della Hayden Raney, the principal chief nurse at Tuskegee Army Airfield during World War II. The scrapbook has a leather cover with the Air Force Pilot crest and a depiction of three planes flying amidst a cloud. The bottom right…
1943-1953
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA scrapbook compiled by Army Nurse Corps (ANC) 1st Lieutenant Louise Virginia Lomax and later annotated by her daughter, Pia Winters Jordan. The scrapbook has a blue cover with three silver-colored airplanes flying at center. At the top of the cover is an…
1988-08
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Scraping medicine from Ogun tree. Ilishan or Ikenne".
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Sean Michaels (born February 20, 1958) is an American pornographic actor, model, director and former trade union leader. In 2002, AVN ranked him 14th on their list of The Top 50 Porn Stars of All Time. Michaels has won several prominent adult industry…
ca. 1943
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Second Lieutenant bar military insignia pin worn by Lt. Louise Lomax as part of Army Nurse Corps uniform. The insignia pin is a rectangular bar of bronze-colored metal. The bronze is heavily tarnished and most of it has been removed.
ca. 1943
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Second Lieutenant bar military insignia pin worn by Lt. Louise Lomax as part of Army Nurse Corps uniform. The insignia pin is a rectangular bar of bronze-colored metal. The bronze is heavily tarnished and most of it has been removed.
ca. 1943
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Second Lieutenant bar military insignia pin worn by Lt. Louise Lomax as part of Army Nurse Corps uniform. The insignia pin is a rectangular bar of bronze-colored metal with a push pin back. The bronze is heavily tarnished and most of it has been removed.
ca. 1943
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Second Lieutenant bar military insignia pin worn by Lt. Louise Lomax as part of Army Nurse Corps uniform. The insignia pin is a rectangular bar of bronze-colored metal with a push pin back. The bronze is heavily tarnished and most of it has been removed.
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Sekazi Kauze Mtingwa: (born Michael Von Sawyer; October 20, 1949) is an American theoretical high-energy physicist. He is a co-recipient of the 2017 Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators. He is the first…
Biography
Selwyn Maurice Vickers is an American gastrointestinal surgical oncologist. He serves as President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Previously, Dr.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPostcard image of people standing near an ambulance and of someone transported on a stretcher. Text on front reads: "Tiralleurs Senegalais; Service de Sante." Text on verso reads: "Carte Postale; Ce cote est exclusivement reserve a l'adresse.".
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