A black-and-white photograph of a poster that hangs in the Capital Pool Checkers Club, titled, "Why the Titanic Sank", which features a group of scantily-clad, busty women aboard the deck of what appears to be a cruise ship. A thermometer is also pictured.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.41.40
A wicker armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The chair features a wicker wrapped wooden frame and a seat cushion. The wicker and wood have been painted a light blue and the cushion is a darker cadet blue. The chair has a high back support and sides…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.28
A wicker armchair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The chair features a wicker wrapped wooden frame and a seat cushion support. The wicker and wood have been painted a light blue and the cushion is a darker greenish blue. The chair has a high, continuous…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.30
Large wicker arm chair painted white with the original red, purple, green and white watercolored printed frabric seat cushion. The arm chair was originally used in the living room of Shearer Cottage in Oak Bluffs, MA.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.2.3
Large wicker rocking chair painted white with a small red and tan floral fabric cushion on the seat and back. The rocking chair was originally used in Unit 1, the Penthouse Living Room, of Shearer Cottage in Oak Bluffs, MA.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.2.4
Wide-brimmed slouch hat designed by Mae Reeves with a high round crown made from a dupioni cream silk printed with geometric shapes in pink, grey, rust, and olive tones. A wide pink grosgrain ribbon hat band has two tails that extend below the brim at the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.213.8
A wide brimmed woven raffia hat (a) with a detachable hat band (b). The braided straw has been blocked to shape to form the hat’s structure. The raffia structure of the hat consists of two strands of two-ply twine woven together. The braided straw spirals…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2007.3.518ab
A long, wide pink chiffon scarf with four (4) wide stripes of metallic threads along the borders. The scarf is made from a selvedge-width piece of fabric with the selvedge left untreated and rolled hems at the other edges.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.48.60
Widemir Normil (born February 5, 1963) is a Haitian Canadian actor based in Québec, best known for his roles as Fardoche in the 21st-century revival of the children's television series Passe-Partout, and Captain Raymond Célestin in Escouade 99, the Quebec…
An off-white blazer with three buttons down the front center. The jacket has two pockets and features an embroidered American shield over crossed tennis racquets on the proper left chest.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2009.27.5
Wilbert Harris Cherry (April 11, 1952;– August 4, 2007) participated in the desegregation of U.S. college basketball as the first African American to play basketball for the University of Tennessee, in 1970–1971, and one of the first two African Americans…
Wilbert London III (born August 17, 1997) is an American track and field athlete specializing in sprinting events. Three-year track and field letterwinner at Waco High School. His 200 m personal best is 20.72 seconds at Austin, TX. His 400 m personal best…
Wilbert Arnold "Bill" Tatum (January 23, 1933 – February 26, 2009) was an American newspaper executive, who variously served as the editor, publisher, chairman and chief executive officer of the New York Amsterdam News, a weekly newspaper serving the…
Wilda D. Logan is an American archivist who is most well-known as her work of almost 40 years in the archival profession including 33 years of federal service with the Records Management Training Program of the National Archives and Records Administration…
Wilford H. Smith (c. 1863 – June 9, 1926) was an African-American lawyer who was active in Mississippi, Texas, New York and Alabama between 1883 and 1926. In 1900 Smith became the first black attorney to win a case before the United States Supreme Court…
SSG Wilfred DeFour (April 12, 1918 – December 8, 2018) was a Panamanian-American soldier and centenarian. Born in Colón, Panama, in 1918, DeFour emigrated with his family to the United States when Wilfred was still a child. The family settled in the Harlem…
Wilfred Denniston Wood (born 15 June 1936) is a Barbadian-British Anglican minister who was the Bishop of Croydon from 1985 to 2003 (and the first area bishop there from 1991), the first black bishop in the Church of England. He came second in the "100…
Dazet Wilfried Armel Zaha (born 10 November 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for the Ivory Coast national team. A product of Crystal Palace's youth academy, Zaha made his senior debut for the then Championship, now Premier League,…
Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly (née Rhodes December 11, 1946 – October 16, 2019) was an African-American genealogist who traced her American lineage to the April 5, 1614, union of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. She was also a member of the Jamestowne Society. In 2019…
The Wilhelmina Leigh Family home movies consist of family gatherings, local outings in Washington D.C., vacations, high school football games, holidays, and commencement ceremonies.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.sc.0001_ref632
Scenes were filmed, 1965-1966 – 30:30 minutes … – 1. … in Washington, DC, of sightseeing (National Zoo, U.S. Capitol, U.S. Supreme Court building, and one of the Library of Congress buildings) and of the North American Blizzard of 1966; 2. … in Atlantic…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.SC.0001, Item SC_0001_20171213_Leigh_R8_01
Video includes scenes from the first half of Hampton Institute's Homecoming football game between Hampton Institute and Tuskegee Institute. (NB: Both schools are now universities.), Fall 1966 00:02 – 00:45 minutes The Tuskegee Institute's football team (in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.SC.0001, Item SC_0001_20171213_Leigh_R8_03
