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Historical photographs & visual records

Cooking and storage area

2000-01-25

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Cooking and storage area. Original Carousel number, 7, slide number, 117.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0850
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Cooking area in Gurunsi home

2004 November 10

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Cooking area in Gurunsi home. Original Carousel number, 2, Slide number, 9.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0143
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Historical photographs & visual records

Cooking area in Lobi village

2000-01-25

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Cooking area in Lobi village. Original Carousel number, 7, slide number, 140.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0873
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[Cooking banana at Arusha market], Arusha, Tanzania

1967-04

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Cataloged as “[Cooking banana at Arusha market], Arusha, Tanzania” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2007-009, Item EEPA 2007-009-0325
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Cooking fire inside of the home, Awasa, Ethiopia

2010-10-06

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Original Carousel 25, slide 31.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-3115
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Cooking food, Ile Aren

1972

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Cataloged as “Cooking food, Ile Aren” (Slides (photographs)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2014-003, Item EEPA_2013-015-0036
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Cooking grasshoppers on lid of pot at Makotakota Diamini's homestead, a few miles northwest of Luyengo, Swaziland

1973-1975

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Cataloged as “Cooking grasshoppers on lid of pot at Makotakota Diamini's homestead, a few miles northwest of Luyengo, Swaziland” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2018-003, Item EEPA 2018-003-0232
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cabinet photographs

Cooking His Breakfast; Augusta, Ga

late 19th-early 20th century

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A cabinet card with an albumen print of an unidentified man sitting in a dirt yard near a wooden structure. The man is sitting on an overturned wooden crate near a short homemade oven made from stacked bricks. A kettle and other cooking implements are…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.166.17
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Cooking in the Afrikaner Camp for Nagmaal (Holy Communion), Bronkhorstspruit (South Africa)

1947

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Cataloged as “Cooking in the Afrikaner Camp for Nagmaal (Holy Communion), Bronkhorstspruit (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-063591
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Cooking pots and grain

2004 November 12

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Cooking pots and grain in cooking area. Original Carousel number, 2, Slide number, 85.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0218
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Photographs and Still Images

Cooking Stove in the home of Mrs. Cleola McFarland, near the Homochitto River in rural Wilkinson County, Mississippi

November 1976

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This black and white photographic print depicts a cast iron stove in the corner of a room. The stove has four stove eyes on top, and a rectangular closed door on the front. The word "BEACON" appears across the top of the door in raised letters. There is…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.125.1
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Cooking utensils for sale at a market in Mopti, Mali

1966-1973

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Cataloged as “Cooking utensils for sale at a market in Mopti, Mali” (Negatives (photographic)).

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2013-009, Item EEPA 2013-009-0540
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Cooking utensils in Taneka village, Natitingou, Benin

2004 November 15

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Cooking utensils in Taneka village. Original Carousel number, 3, slide number, 140.

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.2020-001, Item EEPA 2020-001-0401
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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Cool C

1969–

Christopher Douglas Roney (born December 15, 1969), known by the stage name Cool C, is an American former rapper active in the late 1980s. He is also known for his involvement in the murder of Philadelphia Police officer Lauretha Vaird during a bank…

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Music

Cool Nutz

1972–

Terrance Scott (born May 11, 1972), better known by his stage name Cool Nutz, is an American rapper, radio personality, entrepreneur, tour manager and record label owner. He was born and raised in the Woodlawn, Portland, Oregon neighborhood. Growing up in…

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Politics

Coolio

1963–2022

Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (August 1, 1963 – September 28, 2022), known by his stage name Coolio, was an American rapper, songwriter and record producer. He was best known for his single "Gangsta's Paradise" (1995), which won a Grammy Award, and was credited for…

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Music

Cooly G

Biography

Merrisa Campbell, known by her recording alias Cooly G, is a British singer, rapper, producer and DJ, living in London. She has released two albums of bass music on Hyperdub: Playin' Me (2012) and Wait 'Til Night (2014).

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Racist and Stereotypical Objects

Coons and Melons

ca. 1895

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An albumen print on cabinet card depicting two (2) African American boys eating watermelon. The photograph shows the boys seated on either side of a wooden crate; the text "Coons and Melons" appears in the image on the side of the crate. Each boy holds a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.117.6
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Historical photographs & documents

Coosa – Randolph

1866

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Cataloged as “Coosa – Randolph”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1900, Item 3.1.7.3
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Historical photographs & documents

Copies of Reports and Returns by the Superintendent

Dec. 1865–Apr. 1867

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Cataloged as “Copies of Reports and Returns by the Superintendent”.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1911, Item 3.4.8.1
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Copies of the Book "Cry, The Beloved Country" by Alan Paton, Natal

February 1949

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This photograph was taken when Constance Stuart was on assignment for Harper's Bazaar, an American magazine. Her task was to create a portfolio inspired by the seminal book "Cry, The Beloved Country," which had brought the conditions in South Africa to the…

Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African ArtCatalog EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-060040
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Copper and brass cuff designed by Winifred Mason

ca. 1936-1951

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A copper and brass cuff designed and created by Winifred Mason Chenet. The copper brass cuff has a wide band that is hammer textured. On the center of the front of the cuff is a diamond shape metal piece with rounded side edges, a flattened bottom, and a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2025.9.4
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Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Copper cuff by Winifred Mason Chenet

ca. 1936-1951

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Copper cuff by Winifred Mason Chenet. The main body of the cuff is made from a single sheet of smooth copper, molded into a cylindrical shape and layered with additional brass pieces on the top and bottom. The textured brass pieces have been cut and shaped…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.108.5
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