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2001
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Washington Press Club Foundation's 57th Annual Congressional Dinner”.
ca. 1969
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA cylindrical wastebasket made out of woven plant fibers.
1870s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA watch fob owned by Lew Snowden. The fob is made of twenty-one (21) ivory beads and a metal “T” shaped clasp on a leather cord. The beads are different shapes and sizes. Each bead has a geometric pattern incised on it.
1997
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA commemorative wrist watch presented to Jeff Friday at the inaugural Acapulco Black Film Festival (ABFF) held June 24-29, 1997. The Wittnauer Swiss Movement watch has a white dial with a black hands and minute markers. The watch case, buckle, and stick…
1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph by Kenneth Royster titled “Watching the Baptism”. In the center of the image, an unidentified woman is seated in a lawn chair. She is wearing a plain white dress and wearing a watch and multiple rings. In her proper right hand,…
[19--]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGImage of three young women carrying large containers. Printed text on recto reads: "Transportando agua; Water Carriers." Printed text on verso reads: "Casa 31 de Janeiro, Loanda.".
1963-1971
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA brass watering can designed and created by Art Smith for his romantic partner, Geoffrey Haskell, who was an avid botanist. The watering can is brass with an evenly dark oxidized exterior surface. From its side profile, the can has a cylindrical body with…
1988
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color linocut in black and orange depicting a family: father, mother, and baby. The family is depicted in front of a three-pointed archway with the father standing on the left and the mother seated on the right, holding the infant. The sun shines through…
1988
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color linocut in black and orange depicting a family: father, mother, and baby. The family is depicted in front of a three-pointed archway with the father standing on the left and the mother seated on the right, holding the infant. The sun shines through…
1928–
Waveney Bushell (born 1928) is a Guyanese-born teacher, activist and "arguably the first Black educational psychologist in the UK". She is most notable for her role in exposing racism and inequality in the British educational system.
1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGWax flowers worn by Florance Colgate Rumbough Trevor as part of her wedding ensemble. Each full cluster has a thicker wire stem wrapped in dark green paper with thinner wires shooting off of it wrapped in paper or green thread. At the ends are pale orange…
early 19th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe taper holder is a silver plated piece with three hallmarks or maker's marks pressed into the rim of the saucer/dish base. The center of the dish curves upward to support two curved parabolic prongs which curve out and up before meeting again at the top…
1970s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA wax print ensemble with a mask pattern. The cotton shirt (a) is made from two panels of fabric for the front and features an all-over African wax print pattern of alternating masks within gold squares that have irregular blotches of gold acrylic paint…
1951–2014
Wayne Keith Curry (January 6, 1951 – July 2, 2014) was an American politician. He was elected as the executive for Prince George's County, Maryland in November 1994, and served two terms as the county executive from December 1994 to December 2002. His…
Biography
Wayne Dawson is an American television newscaster and co-host of Fox 8 in the Morning, a morning show broadcast on Fox affiliate WJW-TV Channel 8, in Cleveland, Ohio. For two years prior to joining WJW in 1981, Dawson was an anchor/reporter at WNIR-FM in…
1977–
Wayne Dyer (born 24 November 1977) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in England, he represented the Montserrat national team at international level. Dyer notably scored Montserrat's first goal in FIFA World Cup…
1952–2022
Wayne K. Garfield (January 21, 1952 – September 9, 2022) was an American composer, collaborating songwriter, vocalist, social businessman, community activist and producer, who was born in 1952 in New York City. He co-founded of the music collective Change,…
1980–
Wayne William Gray (born 7 November 1980) is an English professional football forward. He scored 101 goals in 464 league and cup appearances throughout a 14-year professional career. He started his career with Wimbledon in 1999, leaving the club following…
1965–
Wayne Tyrone Housie (born May 20, 1965) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder. Listed at 5'9", 165 lb., he was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. Housie was originally drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the eighth round of the January…
1950–1993
Douglas Wayne Martin (June 30, 1950 – April 19, 1993) was an American Branch Davidian and attorney who left the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He worked as an attorney in multiple fields, including contract, child custody, and real estate law, and provided…
1945–2020
Howard Wayne Redmond (November 25, 1945 – August 8, 2020) was an American professional baseball player. He played 933 games of minor league baseball during his nine-season (1965–1973) career, and had brief trials with the 1965 and 1969 Detroit Tigers of…
1980; printed 2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis color photograph shows a group of women posing in their Sheepskin coats in in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, in 1980. The five friends wear different types of the popular unisex coat in grays and beiges. The back of the photograph is…
2008
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn archival pigment print photograph of collaged images featuring a central image consisting of a black-and-white photograph of three seated women. The woman on the left is only partially visible, her arm stretched out to graph the hand of the woman at…
2020
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital illustration by Sekou Cooke as part of the collage studies from “We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space.” The 2-D digital rendering is a black-and-white outline of public housing complexes Judge Langston C. McKinney Manor and Pioneer…
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