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How to Breakdance

A pack of View-Master 3D reels. The title of the pack is: [How to Breakdance]. The package contains three reels with a total of twenty-one pictures. The front of the package features a man in a red outfit breakdancing. Text throughout the packaging advertises that the viewer can: [Learn to breakdance with the New York City Breakers]. The three reels are secured by a plastic cover at the bottom of

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How to Speak and Pray in Public

A softcover copy of How to Speak and Pray in Public by J. Vernon Jacobs. The softcover book has an adhesive and stitched binding. The front cover is light and dark brown. At the top two-thirds of the cover is an illustrated, large, dark brown square with rough edges. Inside is light brown cross at the center with light brown text in varying sizes above that reads [how to / Speak and Pray / in Publ

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How to care for your Cornet/Trumpet

5 pp

Instructional pamphlet from the Chicago Musical Instrument Company titled "How to care for your Cornet/Trumpet." The pamphlet consists of two (2) long, narrow pieces of paper folded in half and stapled. The first page has a pink background and features a white graphic of a trumpet with white, gray, and black polka dots coming out of the bell. The shadow of a cornet is atop the trumpet. White text

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Howard Thurman, Portrait of a Practical Dreamer

A hardcover edition of Howard Thurman, Portrait of a Practical Dreamer by Elizabeth Yates. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with a sewn binding and deckle page edges. The book’s dust jacket features a black-and-white photograph of Howard Thurman. Thurman is depicted in bust pose from the chest up. He is wearing a dark tone clergy robe with black front trim over a white dress shirt and a light to

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Hudson Valley Toile

A sidewall designed by Sheila Bridges. The wallpaper has a design of pink gingham with scattered and repeating black and white vignettes in the French toile style. The vignettes feature comical illustrations of people engaged in a variety of typical Hudson Valley scenes. Included is a scene of two men posed as farmers in the style of American Gothic; a painter on the banks of the Hudson River, wit

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Humanity Street

A digital image of flooding in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The image depicts a house, car, telephone pole, and stop sign under several feet of standing water along Humanity Street.

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Hy Thurman Oral History Interview

An oral history consisting of a single digital video recording (2018.78.7.1). It was collected as part of the Poor People’s Campaign Interviews.

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I Am A Black Woman

A first edition, hardback copy of I Am a Black Woman by Mari Evans. The book has a black paper dust jacket with yellow and red type and a black-and-white headshot of Evans on the left side of the front jacket. Evans looks at the viewer, unsmiling. The proper left side of her face is covered in shadow. The front of the jacket reads, [I AM A BLACK / WOMAN / Poems by / Mari Evans]. Yellow and red tex

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I Can't Stop Loving You / Born To Lose

H x W (sleeve): 7 x 7 1/16 in. (17.8 x 17.9 cm)

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I Count!

A quilt of composed of colorful cotton fabrics with beads and sequins depicting the figure of a woman in a green dress against the stars and stripes imagery of the United States flag. Oriented vertically, the main field of the quilt is composed of strips of various red, white, and cream fabrics to form stripes. The stripes are vertical in the center and horizontal in the upper right corner. At rig

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I Go To Prepare A Place For You

The intricately boned corset at her bust is composed of a black fabric with floral bouquets representing women as the source of life and infinity. Every flower is different as is every woman. There is a swath of orange fabric across the chest and a bright blue fabric along the center row of buttons, beneath the distinctive white collar. Yellow fabric with red birds denoting freedom compose the sle

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I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'

H x W: 11 3/4 x 9 in. (29.8 x 22.9 cm)

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