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circa 1950s-1960s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Small Photo Boards - Models Wearing "Patina" and Lady Day”.
1939-1965
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA white, small sized suitcase with a white and tan marbled exterior belonging to Clayton and Hazel Sinclair, owners of the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The case has a brass lock and brass handle hardware. The interior of the case is lined with mauve silk. The…
1988-07
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Small tree with asen altar next to cement building".
1914
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Smith Family Emigration Permits for James, Mary, and Ina”.
1969
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Smithsonian Institution Duplication Request and Item List”.
ca. 2016-2018
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pair of black and white costume sneakers worn by Simone Missick as the character Misty Knight on the episode 'Wig Out' (203) of Marvel’s television series “Luke Cage.” This black and white left (a) and right (b) pair of rubber, nylon, and polyurethane…
2009-2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA left (a) and right (b) pair of Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars sneakers worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in Louisiana. The All-Stars sneakers are white with black accenting and constructed in the classic low top…
ca. 1981
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pair of white and red Converse sneakers worn by Julius Erving. The sneakers are predominantly white with red stars and red chevrons on both sides. Printed in red ink on the outward facing side of the shoes is: [DR J]. The laces are white and run from the…
ca. 1981
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pair of white and red Converse sneakers worn and autographed by Julius Erving. The sneakers are predominantly white with red stars and red chevrons on both sides. Printed in red ink on the outward facing side of the shoes is: [DR J]. The laces are white…
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Snow Flake Grigsby (13 February 1899 – 22 March 1981) was an African American civil rights activist and trade unionist. Grigsby was born in Newberry County, South Carolina, to two farmers in a family of twelve children. He received his high school diploma…
1969; printed 2014
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white gelatin silver print of a person walking alongside railroad tracks with a cityscape in the background. The tracks are in the center of the photograph with brick buildings on either side. The person is walking away from the camera on the…
April 30, 1927
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA gelatin silver print of the 1927 flooding of the Mississippi River. This photo depicts the flooded plain south of Choctaw, Mississippi.
1974–
Sofiya Alhassan (born July 6, 1974) is a Ghanaian-American kinesiologist and academic administrator who researches community family-based physical activity interventions. She also studies how environmental factors play a role in the behavioral health of…
Biography
Solange Franklin Reed (née Franklin) is an American fashion stylist. Since 2015, she has worked as an independent stylist, with a portfolio that includes editorial, runway, and celebrity styling. Franklin Reed was recognized as one of the inaugural New…
August 10, 2007
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color digital photograph of six-year-old Kennedi White and her mother, Kristie White, during the welcoming ceremony for the 267th Quartermaster Company. Kennedi is wearing a dark blue tank top lined in red. She holds her hands together in front of…
Loading image…1973–
Solomon W. Kinloch Jr. (born July 28, 1973) is an American pastor and political candidate. He is the senior pastor of Triumph Church, a non-denominational megachurch based in Detroit.
1996–
Solomon Chukwuelozona Nwabuokei (born 23 February 1996) is an English professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for National League club Eastleigh.
1869–1936
Solomon Sir Jones (1869–1936) was an American minister and amateur film-maker, best known for his collection of 29 silent black-and-white films (totaling 355 minutes' worth of footage) documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928.…
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Solomon T. Clanton (March 27, 1857 – May 18, 1918) was a leader in the Baptist Church. He was educated in New Orleans and Chicago and became the first black graduate of the theological department at the Baptist Union Theological Seminary at Morgan Park,…
2008
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn archival pigment print photograph of collaged images featuring a black-and-white photograph of a man standing with two women, arms around each other, in front of a white clapboard building. The photograph has been cut into the shape of a bird in flight.…
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA son figure hand puppet by Childcraft. With his rubber arms and hands raised to his chin and neck, the son puppet wears a ribbed green sweater with white buttons. A large white “C” features at his proper left midsection. He has dark brown hair, brown…
1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA son figure hand puppet by Childcraft. With his arms raised parallel to his chest, the son puppet wears a bright red ribbed cardigan and white shirt. He has black hair, black eyes, and red lips. On the bottom back of his cardigan is the maker's mark:…
1940
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA 16mm release print of the feature film Son of Ingagi. It consists of two reels of positive, black-and-white, 16mm acetate film (a) and (b) with variable-area optical sound. Two (2) metal film reels (c) and (d), and a film shipping box (e) also accompany…
Loading image…1983–
Sona Jobarteh (born 1983) is a Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer. She is from one of the five principal kora-playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora player to come from a griot family. She is the…
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