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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Ella Sheppard

1851–1914

Ella Sheppard (February 4, 1851 – June 9, 1914) was an American soprano, pianist, composer, and arranger of spirituals. She was the matriarch of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee. She also played the organ and the guitar.

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Music

Ellabelle Davis

1907–1960

Ellabelle Davis (17 March 1907 — 15 November 1960) was an American singer who began her public musical career as a soloist in a concert with the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, at the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, in 1940. She then went on to perform at…

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ARCHIVE RECORD
Historical photographs & documents

ELLE Magazine

February 1992

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Cataloged as “ELLE Magazine” (Text; Magazines (periodicals)).

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog sova.nmaahc.a2013.149.3_ref818
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BIOGRAPHY
Literature

Elle Moxley

Biography

Elle Moxley (formerly Elle Hearns, born 1986/1987) is an American transgender rights activist. She co-founded the Black Lives Matter Global Network, where she served as a strategic partner and organizing coordinator, and founded The Marsha P. Johnson…

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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Elle Varner

1989–

Gabrielle Serene Varner (born February 12, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Born into a musical family in Brooklyn and raised in Los Angeles, Varner studied at New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. In October 2009, she…

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Books and Published Materials

Elleanor's Second Book

1839

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A hardcover book titled “Elleanor's Second Book” written by Elleanor Eldridge in collaboration with Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall. This first edition copy is printed on off-white paper with black ink. It has an off-white and black, marbled cover…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2022.6
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BIOGRAPHY
Arts & Performance

Ellen Banks

1938–2017

Ellen Banks (June 7, 1938 – May 18, 2017), also known as Ellen Banks Feld or Ellen Feld (married to Bernard Feld), was an American painter and musician. Her work is characterized by a unique interplay between visual art and written music, especially the…

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BIOGRAPHY
Arts & Performance

Ellen Cleghorne

1965–

Ellen Leslye Cleghorne (born November 29, 1965) is an American actress and comedian. Cleghorne is best known for her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1995. She was the sketch comedy show's second…

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BIOGRAPHY
Visual Arts

Ellen Gallagher

1965

Ellen Gallagher (born December 16, 1965) is an American artist. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is held in the permanent collections of many major museums. Her media include painting, works on paper, film and video. Some…

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BIOGRAPHY
Literature

Ellen Oléria

1982–

Ellen Gomes de Oléria, known as Ellen Oléria (born 12 November 1982) is a Brazilian singer, musician, songwriter, and actress.

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Photographs and Still Images

Ellen Stewart

1974; printed 1990s

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A black and white digital print photograph of Ellen Stewart. The photograph features Stewart next to a stage light. She has a hat on and her hair is in braided pig tails. She is looking off to the left of the photograph. The back of the photograph has a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.77.12
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Literature

Ellen Tarry

1906–2008

Ellen Tarry (September 26, 1906 – September 23, 2008) was an African-American journalist and author who figured in the Harlem Renaissance. Her Janie Belle (1940) was the first African-American picture book, and her other works include further literature…

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Arts & Performance

Ellen Thomas

1954–

Ellen Thomas (born 3 February 1954) is a Sierra Leonean-British actress, known for her roles as Liz Webbe in the Channel 4 sitcom Teachers and Claudette Hubbard in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She is also known for her recent voice role in the Netflix…

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BIOGRAPHY
Film & Television

Ellia English

Biography

Ellia English is an American theatre actress, musician, and dancer. She is best known for her role as Aunt Helen King on the comedy sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show which originally ran from 1996 to 2001, where she was featured in a central role and was paired…

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BIOGRAPHY
Sports

Ellie Downie

1999–

Elissa Rebecca "Ellie" Downie (born 20 July 1999) is a retired artistic gymnast who has represented Great Britain. She is the all-around 2017 European gymnastics champion, the first gymnast to win a major all-around title for Great Britain. The younger…

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BIOGRAPHY
Arts & Performance

Elliot Barnes-Worrell

1991–

Elliot Barnes-Worrell (born March 1991) is an English theatre and film actor known for his role as Easter in the ITV drama series Jericho (2016) and as Job Cloovers in the ITV crime drama series Van der Valk (2020).

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Arts & Performance

Elliot Edusah

1997–

Elliot Edusah (born 9 March 1997) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Private Grey on the Sam Mendes's war film 1917 and as Cappo in the 2021 film Pirates. On television, he is known for his roles in Steve McQueen's Small Axe (2020) and…

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Arts & Performance

Elliot Knight

Biography

Elliot Knight (born July 10, 1990) is an English actor. He made his acting debut as the title character on the Sky1 action-adventure series Sinbad (2012). Continuing to work on television, Knight appeared as a series regular on the BBC One crime drama By…

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BIOGRAPHY
Arts & Performance

Elliot Reed

1992–

Elliot Reed (born 1992) is an American dancer and performance artist. Their projects span dance, video, performance, and sculpture and explores the relationship between physicality, time, and systems. Reed has shown internationally at venues like MoMA PS…

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Literature

Elliott Connie

Biography

Elliott E. Connie is an American psychotherapist, author, and trainer associated with the practice and dissemination of Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), a goal-oriented model of psychotherapy. He has authored several works on SFBT and contributes to…

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Biography & Culture

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

1993–

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (born 1993) is a queer black American artist and photographer. In 2019 they received an Emerging Visual Arts Grant by The Rema Hort Mann Foundation.

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Arts & Performance

Ellis E. Williams

1951–

Ellis E. Williams (born June 28, 1951) is a retired American film and television actor and comedian who is known for playing Henry Hughley (father of Darryl Hughley, played by comedian D. L. Hughley) on the sitcom The Hughleys.

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BIOGRAPHY
Biography & Culture

Ellis Haizlip

1929–1991

Ellis B. Haizlip (September 21, 1929 – January 25, 1991) was an American television and theatrical producer, broadcaster and promoter of African American culture. Haizlip is best known as the creator, producer and host of the television variety show, SOUL!

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BIOGRAPHY
Music

Ellis Marsalis Jr.

1934–2020

Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. (November 14, 1934 – April 1, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and educator. Active since the late 1940s, Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and 1990s as the patriarch of the Marsalis musical family, when sons…

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