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1988-08
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "TV playing show".
1926–2009
Twiley W. Barker, Jr. (January 29, 1926 – July 13, 2009) was an American political scientist and scholar of constitutional law. He was a founding faculty member of the department of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he…
1973-12-11
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Twins at Mayflower School. Tuesday".
1988-08
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Twins want to go to university on Market Day".
1988-08
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOriginal text on slide reads, "Two men pose next to Egungun".
1988
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Two young potters working, one of whom is forming a batt, or patty, into a small pot, using an old pot as a mold, Ile Mulubi, Ilorin” (Slides (photographs)).
March 1947
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGRemington Rand model seventeen typewriter with keyboard margin controls used by Buck Colbert Franklin, survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in his legal practice. The typewriter is black with silver lettering. “Remington Rand” is written on the paper table…
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Tyrone B. Hayes (born July 29, 1967) is an American biologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research in frogs, concluding that the herbicide atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that…
1955–
Ulisa Diane Buckingham (born 1955) is an African-American psychiatrist known for her development of culturally sensitive diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in children and adolescents. Buckingham is currently in private practice. Prior to that she…
1943-1946
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA U.S. Army Air Force Pilot Badge owned by Lt. Louise Lomax, possibly as a souvenir from her time stationed at Tuskegee. The metal badge is in the shape of a shield with outstretched wings. The shield is striped and has stars at the top. The insignia pin…
June 1866–May 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “U. S. General Hospital”.
June 19, 1968
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white image of people in water. On Solidarity Day at Resurrection City, a crowd is in the Reflecting Pool with their clothes on. In the foreground on the proper left side there is a woman in a black and white pinstripe collared tank top with…
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Uché Blackstock is an American emergency physician and former associate professor of emergency medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. She is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, which has a primary mission to engage with…
Biography
Ulrica Wilson is an American mathematician specializing in the theory of noncommutative rings and in the combinatorics of matrices. She is an associate professor at Morehouse College, associate director of diversity and outreach at the Institute for…
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Ulysses Grant Dailey (1885–1961) was an American surgeon, writer, and teacher. He was one of the first African Americans recognized in the field of medicine in the United States. In 1949, the House of Delegates of the National Medical Association awarded…
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Ulysses Simpson Wiggins (1896 – April 8, 1966) was an American doctor, civil rights activist, president of the Camden County branch of the NAACP, and president of the New Jersey Conference of Branches of the NAACP. Wiggins was a proponent of desegregating…
1888–1990
Ulysses "Slow Kid" Thompson (August 28, 1888 – March 17, 1990) was a comedian, singer, tap and acrobatic dancer whose nickname was inspired by his ability to perform a comical, and incredibly slow, dance routine. His career included work in circus,…
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG74. -- Un des trois pavillons de l'ambulance de Kindia[,] (One of the 3 pavilions of the hospital of Kindia); CARTE POSTALE; Tous les pays étrangers n'acceptent pas la correspondance au recto[,] (se renseigner à la poste); Partie réservée à la…
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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…
1952; printed 2005
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBlack 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…
1952; printed 2005
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBlack 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…
1952; printed 2005
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBlack 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…
1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of Maude E. Callen standing behind Frank McCray, who is sitting with his hands covering his face with a towel. Callen's left hand is resting on the back of the man's head and she is holding a bag in her other. A woman is…
1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph of Maude Callen pouring water into a glass bottle. On the table next to her is a lantern, more bottles and a crate with a sheet in it. Two pans are hanging on the wall. The photograph is stamped and inscribed on the back.
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