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documents

Color

1925

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A hardcover first edition book of poetry titled Color, written by Countee Cullen. The book has a bright yellow cloth bound spine and front and back printed paper covers in a geometric pattern of red, white, yellow, and blue shapes. At the top of the front…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2023.40
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Photographs and Still Images

Color card photograph of Joe Frazier

1972

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Color card photograph of Joe Frazier in red and white boxing shorts. Frazier is pictured standing towards the right with his arms raised in a fighting stance. Black type underneath the photograph reads: [JOE FRAZIER / WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION]. The back…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.89.7.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Color card photograph of Ron Stander

1972

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Color card photograph of Ron Stander in red and white boxing shorts. Black type underneath the photograph reads: [RON STANDER / CONTENDER FOR / WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION]. The photograph is signed in blue ink with handwritten inscription written by…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.89.7.6
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Visual Arts

Color drawing of the comic book character Icon, owned by Dwayne McDuffie

ca. 1993

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A framed color drawing of the comic book character, Icon, owned by Dwayne McDuffie. The drawing has three distinct parts. The top features three futuristic scenes depicting a space ship crashing. The middle features three scenes depicting slavery and the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.96.27
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Visual Arts

Color(ed) Theory: Crown Royal Bag

2014-2016; printed 2020

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A digital print color photograph of a royal purple painted house within an otherwise empty, grassy lot. The square, two-story clapboard structure has a steep gabled roof with decorative, diamond-shaped shingles covering the triangular section of the facade…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.36.5
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Visual Arts

Color(ed) Theory: Currency Exchange, Safe Passage

2014-2016; printed 2020

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A digital print color photograph of two clapboard houses painted a bright, golden yellow. The houses are situated side by side on a city street. Both houses are one and a half stories with peaked gable roofs. The house on the left is slightly smaller. It…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.36.6
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Visual Arts

Color(ed) Theory: Flamin' Red Hots

2014-2016; printed 2020

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A digital print color photograph of a bright orange painted house set in an otherwise empty grassy space within the landscape of Chicago's South Side. The two-story house has a steep gable roof and a porch that runs the full width of the front. Wooden…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.36.7
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Visual Arts

Color(ed) Theory: Harold's Chicken Shack

2014-2016; printed 2020

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A digital print color photograph of a red painted house sitting in an otherwise empty lot. The house appears on the left side of the image, surrounded by mature trees. A street or driveway runs from in front of the house across to the right side of the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.36.1
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Visual Arts

Color(ed) Theory: Loose Squares, Newport 100's

2014-2016; printed 2020

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A digital print color photograph of a house painted a dark teal blue in a grassy city lot. The house is a single story brick house with a red shingled hip style roof. There are two low and wide concrete steps leading up to the front metal security door on…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.36.4
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Visual Arts

Color(ed) Theory: Pink Oil Moisturizer

2014-2016; printed 2020

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A digital print color photograph of a pink painted house within a wintry city landscape. The clapboard house appears on the right side of the image, behind a delapidated black chain link fence. Next to the house, on the left, is an empty lot, also with…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.36.3
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Visual Arts

Color(ed) Theory: Ultrasheen

2014-2016; printed 2020

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A digital print color photograph of a blue painted house within a wintry city landscape. The blue house appears on the left side of the image, sitting in a snow-covered, overgrown lot. The image has been captured from the street in front. The clapboard…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2021.36.2
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Historical photographs & visual records

Color negatives: "Bushmen (not suitable for reproduction)."

undated

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Cataloged as “Color negatives: "Bushmen (not suitable for reproduction)."”.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item 193
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Historical photographs & documents

Color of Dead Lyrics

n.d.

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Cataloged as “Color of Dead Lyrics” (Text).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2013.149.3_ref118
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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Color overlays for a Milestone Media company newsletter

1997

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Color transparency overlays for a Milestone Media company newsletter owned by Dwayne McDuffie. The overlay is made up of three plastic transparencies of different color taped to a blank, white piece of paper. Each overlay has the page illustration. The top…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.96.16
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Photographs and Still Images

Color photo of Mae Reeves at age 85

1997

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A color photo of Mae Reeves sitting in a chair in front of a potted plant. She wears a black dress with a large white floral decoration just below her left shoulder. She wears a long white pearl necklace, a golden necklace with circular pendant, and black hat.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.210.1
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Photographs and Still Images

Color photo of Mae Reeves at age 85

1997

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A color photo of Mae Reeves sitting in a chair, taken at the same time and in the same place as 2010.6.210.1. She wears the same outfit, the photo is only framed differently, pulled back slightly, so the large white chair and tiered sitting areas are visible.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.6.210.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Color photograph and a negative of Eubie Blake's hand casts

ca. 1982

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One (2011.149.5.3a) color photographic image of Eubie Blake hand casts made by Bobbiegita Walker. The hands are featured in an upright position, palms facing one another. They are slightly askew and with the left hand more upward than the right. The…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.149.5.3ab
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Photographs and Still Images

Color photograph of Carl Lewis and Nelson Mandela

ca. 1997

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A color photograph of Carl Lewis shaking hands with Nelson Mandela. The two men are pictured from the hips up, standing facing the camera, with Mandela turned just slightly to his proper left. Their proper right hands are clasped at center and both are…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.154.25
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Photographs and Still Images

Color photograph of Danielle Spencer as Dee from "What's Happening!!"

1976

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A color photograph of Danielle Spencer as the character Dee in a scene from Season 1, Episode 6 of the sitcom "What's Happening!!" Spencer is on the left side of the image, wearing a blue and white floral print dress and standing next to a display of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.111.5.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Color photograph of Delta Air Lines flight attendant Casey Grant

May 1974

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A color photograph portrait of Delta Air Lines flight attendant Casey Grant in uniform, captured May 1974. Captured on a sunny day outdoors, Grant smiles and gazes to her proper right. Her neck-length dark hair frames her face, and she wears large…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.50.24.5
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Photographs and Still Images

Color photograph of Eubie Blake and artist Bob Walker during a modeling session

1981

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A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts Blake, dressed in suit and tie, sitting to Walker's proper right as the artist works on the sculpture.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.128.3.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Color photograph of Eubie Blake and artist Bob Walker during a modeling session

1981

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A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the artist working on the sculpture in the foreground as Blake sits with the publicist Phoebe Jacobs in the background.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.128.3.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Color photograph of Eubie Blake and artist Bob Walker during a modeling session

1981

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A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the artist working on the sculpture in the foreground as Blake sits with another man in the background.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.128.3.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Color photograph of Eubie Blake and artist Bob Walker during a modeling session

1981

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A color snapshot taken during Eubie Blake's modeling sessions for the portrait bust by Bobbiegita Walker. This image depicts the Blake, dressed in a suit and tie, in the foreground as the artist works on the sculpture in the background. Walker is smiling…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.128.3.5
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