2011.12.20ab: A vanity with a detached mirror from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. 2011.12.20a: A vanity from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The vanity is primarily constructed from burl wood with a dark finish. The bottom section of the vanity features a flat,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.20ab
Vanley Burke (born 1951) is a British Jamaican photographer and artist. His photographs capture experiences of his community's arrival in Britain, the different landscapes and cultures he encountered, the different ways of survival and experiences of the…
A digital chromogenic photograph depicting two men climbing a pole for the San Basilio de Palenque’s festivity of vara de premio (prize rod). Captured against a light grey sky, the pole extends throught the center of the image with two men arranged…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.166.19
A digital chromogenic photograph capturing three young men climbing a pole for the San Basilio de Palenque’s festivity of vara de premio (prize rod). Captured against a background of a plain grey sky, the pole appears in the center of the image, with three…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.166.18
This is a color photograph capturing four young men climbing a pole for the San Basilio de Palenque’s festivity of vara de premio (prize rod). Depicted against a white sky, the men are arranged in pairs. At the bottom, visible from the waist up, one man in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.166.17
A digital chromogenic photograph of four young men climbing a pole for the San Basilio de Palenque’s festivity of vara de premio (prize rod). The pole and climbers are depicted against a white background. The four men are vertically stacked and connected,…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.166.16
Vasta Roy "Vas" Blackwood (born 19 October 1962) is a British actor. Blackwood played Lenny Henry's sidekick Winston Churchill in The Lenny Henry Show (1987) and David Sinclair in Casualty (1996–97). Since playing Rory Breaker in the hit film Lock, Stock…
Lula Vashti Turley Murphy (née Turley; February 1884 – March 17, 1960) was an American educator and community leader, one of the founding members of Delta Sigma Theta, the historically black sorority.
