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7-1-1999
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Burrelle's World Wide Web Edition: Philadelphia (PA) City paper” (Text).
5-25-2000
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Burrelle's World Wide Web Edition: PR Newswire (CA)” (Text).
5-4-2000
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Burrelle's World Wide Web Edition: Time Digital (NY, NY)” (Text).
7-27-2000
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Burrelle's World Wide Web Edition: WPVI-TV Channel 6 (Philadelphia, PA)” (Text).
5-27-2000
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Burrelle's World Wide Web Edition: Yahoo! News (NY, NY)” (Text).
Biography
Melvin Nelson (1936/1937 – October 15, 2017) was an American professional wrestler. He competed in the United States under the ring names Jimmy Jones and Burrhead Jones. As an African American wrestler, he was not permitted to wrestle against caucasians in…
Biography
Burt Caesar is a British actor, broadcaster and director for stage and television, who was born in St Kitts and migrated to England with his family as a child. His career has encompassed acting in Bond films (Skyfall, 2012), stage performances including in…
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Burton “Burkie” Burns (born October 27, 1952) most recently was the running backs coach of the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). Burns previously was a coach at Alabama from 2007 until 2017, where he had been the associate head coach…
Biography
Burton Clarke is a gay African-American alternative cartoonist. He is known for his contributions to the rise of LGBT comics and his focus on representing gay men of all races and classes in his art, using a mix of realism and fantasy to tackle complex…
1822–1880
Burwell Toler (circa 1822 – July 21, 1880) (also known as "Burrell Toler") was an African American carpenter, minister and Republican politician. Probably born into slavery in Hanover County, Virginia, Toler became a carpenter and preacher before the…
1975
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color linocut print in green, red, yellow, and black depicting multiple seated figures amid an abstract streetscape. The top half of the print features a large design of green and black concentric circles appearing over a yellow brick or stone roof or…
1986
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Bus stop, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).
1970-1999
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Bus Stop sign in front of entrance to Ndebele village, South Africa” (Negatives (photographic)).
2003-09-05
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGOn the road between Ifaty towards Fort Dauphin. Original Carousel 18, slide 118.
1912–2001
Herbert B. "Bus" Thompson (1912 – August 29, 2001) was an American football, basketball, track coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1950 to 1955. Thompson was also…
circa 1969-1994
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Bus, University of Ife, Nigeria” (Slides (photographs)).
Biography
Buseje Bailey is a Canadian artist and curator working in video and multi-media whose work explores the construction of the diasporic Black self. Bailey's multidisciplinary work explores themes of the Black diasporic identity and women's history. Her video…
1972 October
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Bush, Anita” (Audio; Audio cassette).
1979
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDonor notes read: "Bush fire in the paddocks; Musaia Stock Farm; note the hawk circling. Jan. 1980. The date on the slide is FEB 80.".
2002
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA lithograph depicting the figure of a man in black ink on off-white paper. Shown from the hips up, he stands in profile to the viewer, his back straight and his gaze directly in front of him. The sketch lines are visible amidst the softer, wider shadings…
Biography
Bushra Junaid is a Canadian artist, curator and arts administrator based in Toronto. She is best known for exploring history, memory and cultural identity through mixed media collage, drawing and painting. Born in Montreal to Jamaican and Nigerian parents…
ca. 1917
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGRectangular silver metal business card case with a hinged lid. The lid features an engraved design with script running diagonally across the center that reads "Stephen Wright." At the top left corner is a foliage motif. A scalloped line sections off the…
undated
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Business card: "CONSTANCE STUART Photographer Specialist in Modern Portraiture," 2 Cuthbert's Chambers, St. Andries Street, Pretoria.”.
undated
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Business card [folded], advertising Constance Stuart's photography studio at 17 Hannah Court, Eloff Street, Johannesburg.”.
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