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1974
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Chess set made by Makonde wood carvers, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania” (Negatives (photographic)).
2015
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe chest piece, or collar, of a man's costume for the Bahamas Junkanoo Revue, a junkanoo troupe in Miami, Florida. The chest piece has a circular neck hole and rests across the shoulders and chest of the wearer. It has an elaborate yellow, white, red, and…
1914–2004
Chester Commodore (August 22, 1914 – April 10, 2004) was an African-American cartoonist who made political cartoons and satirical comic strips. He won numerous awards from 1972 to 1980.
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Chester Higgins Jr. (born November 1946) is an American photographer, who was a staff photographer with The New York Times for more than four decades, and whose work has notably featured the life and culture of people of African descent. His photographs…
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Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the…
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Chester Lloyd Washington Jr. (April 13, 1902 – August 31, 1983) was an American journalist, newspaper publisher and editor. He was owner of Central News-Wave Publications, which at one time published over a dozen newspapers.
1927–2016
Chester Middlebrook Pierce ((1927-03-04)March 4, 1927 – (2016-09-23)September 23, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and tenured professor of education and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was the first African-American full professor at…
1946–
Chester Novell Turner (born September 30, 1946) is an American filmmaker known for his blaxploitation horror films Black Devil Doll From Hell and Tales from the QuadeaD Zone. Since their releases in the 1980s, Turner's movies have developed cult followings…
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Chesya Burke is an American editor, educator and author of comic books and speculative fiction, most notably in the genres of horror and dark fantasy. She has published over a hundred short stories, essays, and articles in magazines and anthologies such as…
1745–1799
Born in Guadeloupe to an enslaved mother, Saint-Georges became a celebrated composer and conductor and later commanded a volunteer regiment during the French Revolution.
ca. 1970
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal caption reads, "Chevron Pattern Temple, Great Zimbabwe.".
Biography
Cheyne Anderson, better known mononymously as Cheyne, is an American R&B singer who was still a teenager when her song "Call Me Mr. Telephone (Answering Service)" hit number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1985. She also contributed to the…
Biography
Chidi Osondu, professionally known as Chi Chi, is a Nigerian-American record producer and songwriter signed with Universal Music Publishing Group. He is a frequent collaborator with Atlanta rapper Lil Baby, having produced several songs for his studio…
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Zavion Michael Davenport (September 24, 1985 – August 20, 2020), better known by the stage name Chi Chi DeVayne, was an American drag queen and reality television personality who came to international attention on the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race…
1956–
Chinyere Adah "Chi-Chi" Nwanoku (; born June 1956) is a British double bassist and professor of Historical Double Bass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Nwanoku was a founder member and principal bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a…
1972
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Chibou Mask, Okpenada, Etsako, Edo State, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
Biography
Chibuikem Uche is a British–Nigerian actor best known for his role as Cooper Clay in the Peacock teen drama One of Us Is Lying. He has also appeared in American Housewife, All American, and the feature film The Tomorrow War.
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Francisca Xavier Queiroz de Jesus (22 January 1932 – 8 August 2020), known professionally as Chica Xavier, was a Brazilian actress and producer. Xavier worked in stage, film, and television. She was known primarily for her work in Rede Globo's telenovelas,…
1991
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn image of Michael Jordan dribbling a basketball. He is wearing his Chicago Bulls jersey. The image is reflected and repeated that has a mirrored effect on each side of the central shot of Jordan.
1992
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Chicago '93 An International Assembly on Planning and Design” (Text).
1983
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Chicago Dodge Construction News "National meeting of black women architects" [photocopy]” (Text).
1950s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGChicana Entrepreneur - Olvera Street , Los Angeles, California, 1950's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 160. A black-and-white photograph of woman standing on a sidewalk. She wears a dress and sweater, and has her hair in a…
1970-1999
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Chicken in courtyard of Ndebele village, South Africa” (Negatives (photographic)).
1973-10-20
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Chicken market. Saturday 11 AM. Market Day".
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