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Historical photographs & visual records

Window decoration on mud home, Mopti

2000-02-07

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Window decoration on mud home, Mopti. Original Carousel number, 15, slide number, 15.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-1823
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Historical photographs & visual records

Window in Gourounsi home

2000-01-23

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Window in Gourounsi home. Original Carousel number, 7, slide number, 15.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0749
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Visual Arts

Window Shade

1950s

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An oil painting painted directly onto a roller window shade. The painting depicts scenes of plantation and pastoral life in Louisiana in vignettes that run across the surface in horizontal bands. The shade is mostly, but not completely, retracted. The…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.176.1
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Historical photographs & visual records

Windows in a church outside of Lalibela, Ethiopia

1997

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Cataloged as “Windows in a church outside of Lalibela, Ethiopia” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-003, Item EEPA 2007-003-1416
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Historical photographs & visual records

Windows in a wall near Biete Ghiorgis church, Lalibela, Ethiopia

1997

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Cataloged as “Windows in a wall near Biete Ghiorgis church, Lalibela, Ethiopia” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-003, Item EEPA 2007-003-1386
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Historical photographs & visual records

Windows of rock-hewn Church, Lalibela, Ethiopia

2010-09-27

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Original Carousel 21, slide 34.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-2571
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Arts & Performance

Winfred Rembert

1945–2021

Winfred Rembert (November 22, 1945 – March 31, 2021) was an African-American artist who used hand-tools and shoe dye on leather canvases.

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Textiles and Quilts

Wingback chair from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

mid 20th century

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A cream colored, upholstered wingback chair from the Rock Rest Tourist home. The chair has a dark wooden frame and is covered in cream colored upholstery with a red, yellow, and blue floral pattern. The flowers are connected by dark green leafy vines. The…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.12.3
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Biography & Culture

Winifred Hall Allen

Born 1911

Winifred Hall Allen (born Winnifred Hall; March 21, 1911 – ) was a Jamaican-American photographer who documented the Great Depression and the Harlem Renaissance. Her work explored the role of African Americans within professional and social realms. Her…

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Biography & Culture

Winnie Harlow

1994–

Chantelle Whitney Brown-Young (born July 27, 1994), known professionally as Winnie Harlow, is a Canadian fashion model, actress and public spokesperson on the skin condition vitiligo. She gained prominence in 2014 as a contestant on the 21st cycle of the…

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Visual Arts

Winston Branch

1947–

Winston Branch OBE (born in 1947) is a British artist originally from Saint Lucia, the sovereign island in the Caribbean Sea. He still has a home there, while maintaining a studio in California. Works by Branch are included in the collections of Tate…

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Education & Scholarship

Winston C. Doby

1940–2011

Winston Churchill Doby (February 20, 1940 – November 10, 2011) was one of UCLA's vice chancellors. He was vice chancellor of student affairs for 20 years, making him the longest-serving vice chancellor in UCLA history, and then served as the vice president…

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Medicine & Health

Winston C. Hackett

1881–1949

Dr. Winston Clifton Hackett (1881–1949) was the first African American physician in Arizona. He was the founder of the Booker T. Washington Memorial Hospital, which was the first hospital in Phoenix which served the African American community.

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Sports

Winston White

1958–

Eric Winston White (born 26 October 1958) is an English former footballer who made 529 league appearances with 13 different clubs in a 17-year career in the Football League. He began his career with Leicester City before signing with Hereford United three…

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gathering baskets

Wire oyster basket

20th century

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A wire oyster basket. It has a circular bottom and a single wire handle on the lip.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.195.4
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Biography & Culture

Wisdom Kaye

2001–

Wisdom Kaye (né Uduebor) (born April 4, 2001) is a Nigerian-American model and social media influencer known for his fashion-related content. Vogue has described him as "TikTok's best-dressed guy".

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Photographs and Still Images

With the aid of large projection screens, Bishop G. E. Patterson, senior prelate of the Church of God in Christ and pastor of Temple of Deliverance, can more easily be seen by every member of the congregation, Memphis, Tennessee, 2005

2005; printed 2012

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A black-and-white photograph of Bishop G. E. Patterson on a large screen hanging on a wall. The screen has a pillar on either side of it. On the screen, Bishop Patterson is facing forward and holding a microphone with his left hand. He is pointing up with…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.141.24
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera

Wives or Widows?

1940s

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A pamphlet made of black ink on yellowing paper. The front cover features a drawing of a woman and her two children walk through a cemetery littered with grave markers. Text under the drawing reads: [Wives or Widows? / By Katherine Beecher]. The interior…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.55.40
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Historical photographs & visual records

Wolaita home, Wolaita, Ethiopia

2010-10-13

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Home has carved horns perched at the top of the thatched roof. Original Carousel 28, slide 55.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-3507
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Historical photographs & visual records

Woman and Girl Standing in Coptic Church Doorway, Asmara

undated

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EEPA 2007-003-2530.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog sova.eepa.2007-003_ref90
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Woman and man holding greater cane rat next to car trunk, Ikenne, Nigeria

1988-07

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Original text on slide reads, "Woman and man holding greater cane rat next to car trunk".

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2005-002, Item EEPA 2015-015-1570
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Photographs and Still Images

Woman at tent doorway - Resurrection City, Wash., D.C. - 1968

May 21, 1968- June 23, 1968

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This image depicts a young woman standing at the entrance of one of the yellow tents at Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign. Framed by the tent flaps of yellow material she gazes directly at the viewer. She is dressed in a blue knit shirt…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.116.34
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Photographs and Still Images

Woman between tents - Resurrection City, Wash, D.C. - 1968

May 21, 1968- June 23, 1968

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This image depicts a young woman seated between rows of tents at Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign. The woman, seated on a wooden folding chair, wears a light colored shirt with long sleeves pushed up, and a light colored and patterned…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.116.39
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