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Panasonic Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder

5 pp

Reel-to-reel audio tape recording used two magnetic tape reels, one to hold the virgin, unrecorded tape and one to receive the recorded tape. The supply reel, also known as the feed reel, was placed in a hub, the end of the tape was manually pulled out of the reel and threaded through mechanical guides and the tape head assembly and attached to the second take-up reel, which was initially empty. T

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Paper Silhouette of Quilter

4 pp

In this paper silhouette cutting, a woman sits in a ladder-back chair, hand-sewing a nine-patch quilt that covers her lap like a full skirt. While the form obscures the quilter’s identity, the image may pay homage to artist Ira Blount’s mother, a seamstress who taught her sons to sew and made quilts to keep their family warm. The piece invites viewers to consider how the domestic arts have changed

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Parrot

1 pp

Pintado por William N. Buckner, Jr. (1888-1984) con sólo veintiún años, este colorido loro es una muestra de su habilidad y ojo para el detalle. Utilizando óleos y pasteles al óleo, Buckner ilumina las plumas y la cresta del ave, así como los numerosos recodos de su percha, una rama frondosa. El artista afroamericano desarrolló su pasión por el arte en la prestigiosa M Street High School de Washin

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Parrot Painted by M Street High School Student

5 pp

The vibrant colors of a parrot’s plumage would have been bold and clear to art students observing a real bird in their classroom at the M Street High School in early twentieth-century Washington, DC. The bird is just one example of actual flora and fauna incorporated into the art curriculum by educators like Thomas W. Hunster (1851-1929) in his role as Director of Drawing for the Black public scho

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Patchwork Quilt with Inner and Outer Border

6 pp

The center of this colorful patchwork quilt is made of solid, calico, and striped African fabric pieced together in two-inch squares to form a large rectangular block. A solid blue cloth provides an inner border for this rectangle as well as an outer rectangular border. The area between borders is pieced with colorful two-inch squares. The quilting, which was done by hand, skillfully outlines subt

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Patent Model, Multiple Effect Vacuum Evaporator

8 pp

Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894) sent this scale model of the Multiple Effect Vacuum Evaporator to the US Patent Office when he applied for, and received, his first patent in 1843. Reillieux’s invention would revolutionize the sugar industry. The model’s two cylinders represent enclosed vacuum chambers in which to boil sugarcane. Steam captured from the boiling syrup provided power to boil more sugarc

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Peace of Mind Comes to Me

5 pp

A reflection of Ira Blount’s philosophy on crafting, this work of calligraphy reads: “Peace of mind comes to me through making things with my hands. An added bonus comes if my efforts inspire others to try the creative process.” Note the even lettering and spacing, the brown branches covering the bottom of the image that grow up either side, and the dramatic capital P painted with blue ink. This c

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Pieced Nine-Patch Quilt with Embroidery Fancy Pieced Quilt

50 pp

Bordered in brown, thirty-six blocks compose this nineteenth-century quilt. Each block is made of nine silk squares, mainly in hues of blue, brown, green, grey, and red. Pieced together from remnants of solid and patterned fabric imported from Europe to make formal dresses, elaborate embroidery adorns each square with multicolored motifs ranging from botanical (flower, leaf) to symmetrical designs

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Pin, " Zaire Convention"

4 pp

This pin served as a press pass for journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), who traveled to Zaire to report on the First Ordinary Congress of the Popular Revolution Movement in May 1972. The plastic pin replicated the flag of the country known at the time as Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo). On a field of green, an arm bears a flaming torch encircled by yellow. The Popular Revolution Moveme

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Pin, "Press Pin 1955"

3 pp

Wearing this press pass, journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991) witnessed the proceedings of the historic Asian-African Conference, which took place in April 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia. The metal pin’s cream center box declares “Press,” while its blue border bears the conference’s name, date, and location. Payne’s stories in The Chicago Defender, the nation’s leading African American newspaper, exp

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Pin, "World Assembly for Peace and Life"

3 pp

A dove of peace hovers over the globe on this pin from the World Assembly for Peace and Life, Against Nuclear War, a conference held in October 1983 to advocate for disarmament from nuclear weapons. Offset by a deep blue earth and a white dove, the sky blue pin denotes the massive meeting’s location and date as “Praha83.” Over 4,000 delegates from thirty countries gathered in Praha, or, in English

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Pin, “Give a Dam”

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Shaped like Africa, this metal pin likely promoted donations to a dam building project on the continent. The lapel pin’s double meaning also urges people to care. The pin belonged to journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991), who cared greatly about Africa. In the late 1980s, for example, she served on the board of Africare, a nongovernmental organization partnering with African people on development

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Panasonic Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder

Paper Silhouette of Quilter

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Parrot Painted by M Street High School Student

Patchwork Quilt with Inner and Outer Border

Patent Model, Multiple Effect Vacuum Evaporator

Peace of Mind Comes to Me

Pieced Nine-Patch Quilt with Embroidery Fancy Pieced Quilt

Pin, " Zaire Convention"

Pin, "Press Pin 1955"

Pin, "World Assembly for Peace and Life"

Pin, “Give a Dam”