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1951
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA program for the play "Angel Street" as performed by the Shearer Players led by Liz White consisting of black printed text on white paper. The show's original name is "Gas Light" but is known in the United States as "Angel Street."
1948
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA cast and production list for the play "Cooling Waters" by Liz White. One-sided, black ink on yellowed paper.
1981–
Cat Simmons is an English actress, known for her role as DC Kezia Walker in the long-running ITV drama The Bill, and for starring in Family Affairs as Scarlett Anderson. She also played Sista Twista in Life and Lyrics. She also made appearances in No…
circa 1936-circa 1988
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Cat walking around potted plant, South Africa” (Negatives (photographic)).
2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA catalog and price list for Afritex. The cover of the catalog has a photo of a woman wearing a blue and gold matching halter top and skirt. The woman is sitting down with fourteen different swaths of patterned fabrics in front of her. Behind the woman are…
undated
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Cathedral, Havana” (Photographs).
1980s-1990s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA cathedral wedding veil with pearl beads. The veil is made of synthetic likely nylon tulle. A pouf of tulle is gathered at the top of the veil with multiple faux pearls sewn throughout which vary in size. A clear plastic French comb is sewn to the…
1939–2023
Catherine Burks-Brooks (October 8, 1939 – July 3, 2023) was an American civil rights movement activist, teacher, social worker, jewelry retailer, and newspaper editor.
1995
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Catherine Datta Fraser wearing a traditional embroidered dress, Eritrea” (Negatives (photographic)).
Biography
Catherine Despard (died 1815), from Jamaica, publicised political detentions and prison conditions in London where her Irish husband, Colonel Edward Despard, was repeatedly incarcerated for their shared democratic convictions.
Biography
Catherine Mary Douge Williams (c. 1832-1884), also called Mary Williams or C. Mary Williams, was an African-American suffragist and educator who lived and worked in Albany, New York. She was the first Vice President of the Albany Woman's Suffrage Society,…
1951–
Catherine Ross (born 1951) is a British educator and museum director. Originally from Saint Kitts, Ross founded Museumand, a "museum without walls" celebrating British African-Caribbean people's contributions to the United Kingdom, in 2015.
1966
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Catholic Church” (Slides (photographs)).
[18--]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn overview picture of Lagos showing a Catholic church and schools.
ca. 1878
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA wrought iron cattle brand used by the Bell family. The brand is a solid piece of wrought iron with an open fitting at one end to accommodate a wooden shaft. A “U” shaped branding head is on the opposite end.
1947
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Cattle outside of Dutch Reformed Church for Nagmaal (Holy Communion), Bronkhorstspruit (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).
ca. 1925
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA large circular iron cauldron. It has a rounded body, three short conical legs attached to the bottom, and a slight indentation just below the opening lip, which flairs outwards. There is a raised horizontal ridge running around the circumference of the…
Biography
Cbabi Bayoc is an American visual artist and illustrator based in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a painter whose work centers on African American history and families.
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CeCe McDonald (; born May 26, 1989) is an American transgender activist convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the 2011 stabbing death of 47-year-old Dean Alvin Schmitz. McDonald killed Schmitz during an altercation outside Schooner Tavern in South…
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Cecilia Veronica "CeCe" Peniston (; born September 6, 1969) is an American singer and former beauty queen. In the early 1990s, she scored five number one hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play. Her signature song "Finally" reached No. 5 on…
1923–2007
Cecelia Nabrit Adkins (September 3, 1923 – January 2, 2007) was an African-American publisher from Atlanta. She was the first woman, and first lay person, elected to the position of executive director of the Sunday School Publishing Board of the National…
1894–1970
Cecil Belfield Clarke (also known as Belfield Clarke) (12 April 1894 – 28 November 1970) was a Barbadian-born physician who qualified in the United Kingdom and practised near the Elephant & Castle in London. He was a Pan-Africanist and was one of the…
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Cecil Fergerson (July 6, 1931 – September 18, 2013) was an African-American art curator and community activist. He is widely credited with fostering African-American and Latin-American art communities in Los Angeles for more than 50 years, and was named a…
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Cecil J. Williams (born November 26, 1937) is an American photographer, publisher, author and inventor who is best known for his photographs documenting the civil rights movement in South Carolina. He began his career at an early age, photographing wedding…
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