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Little Sunshine [Al Jolson in "Big Boy"]

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Sheet music for the song "Little Sunshine" from the film Big Boy starring Al Jolson. The front cover of sheet music features a large black and white photo of Al Jolson's face in blackface set against an orange background. Black type on top portion of the cover reads: [LITTLE SUNSHINE / WARNER BROS. PRESENT / AL JOLSON / IN / "BIG BOY"]. Type near bottom right corner of the cover reads: [WORDS & MU

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Live

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2015.263.9a: An audio cassette tape. The cassette is plastic with black type on each side. Both sides have headers reading: [THE 5TH DIMENSION/"LIVE"] on both Side 1 and Side 2, with lists of songs underneath. The Bell Records logo and the cassette number [BEJ /59000] are featured on both sides. The top side of the cassette has a stamp in black ink that reads: [A J 59000].

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Lobo, No. 1

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Lobo, Number 1, December 1965 edition, published by Dell Publishing Company. This first issue was written by DJ Arneson and illustrated by Tony Tallarico and was the first comic book series with an African-American lead character. The front cover of the magazine is predominately yellow, red, and blue. The top third of the cover features the comic’s masthead in white outlined red, stylized text tha

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Long Shadows

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This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.

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Lonnie C. King Oral History Interview

1 pp

The oral history consists of eleven digital files: 2011.174.90.1a, 2011.174.90.1b, 2011.174.90.1c, 2011.174.90.1d, 2011.174.90.1e, 2011.174.90.1f, 2011.174.90.1g, 2011.174.90.1h, 2011.174.90.1i, 2011.174.90.1j, 2011.174.90.1k.

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Loose Thread Stool

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A stool designed by Mark Grattan. The stool consists of an oval-shaped seat set atop two wedge-shaped legs. The tapered ends of the legs face inwards towards the center of the bench. Both seat and legs are covered with fabric made of woven cream, brown, gold, and tan fibers with loose gold and white threads that create a highly textured surface. At the center of the seat is a gold-toned metal plat

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Lorraine Hansberry: The Black Experience in the Creation of Drama

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Hansberry then describes the message of the play: the importance of human dignity. Over a shot of a woman scrubbing the floor of a long hallway, Hansberry describes the significance of the mother in the play. In another clip from the television interview, Hansberry expounds on the difference between a naturalistic work and a realistic work, like her play. Shots of Hansberry's home movies from her

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Louis Jordan "Blue Light Boogie": Mr. Personality, In Person!

8 pp

A souvenir program for a performance by Louis Jordan at the Booker T. Washington Auditorium in New Orleans, Louisiana, hosted by Frank Painia of the Dew Drop Inn. The program graphics consists of black print on white paper with magenta highlights. A black-and-white image of a smiling Louis Jordan appears at the center right hand side along with a full length black-and-white image of Jordan below,

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Louis/Conn 2

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Louise Willingham Broadway Oral History Interview

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The oral history consists of two digital files: 2011.174.68.1a and 2011.174.68.1b.

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Love Him As He Is

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Sheet music for the song "Love Him As He Is." The two page sheet music is on white paper with black type. The first page has a music bars with the title in all capital letters at the top. Underneath the title, there are composer and writer credits, followed by the lyrics and musical notes. The second page continues the lyrics and musical notes. AT the bottom of each page there is company logo for

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Love Will Find a Way

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Sheet music for the song "Love Will Find a Way" from Shuffle Along, Inc. On the front cover, in orange letters, is the musical title "Shuffle Along" in the top half of the page. At the top margin is the name of the song "GYPSY BLUE" in black letters in an orange outlined rectangle. Below the rectangle are the words "SHUFFLE ALONG, INC. Presents/ The New York Musical Novelty Success." Underneath th

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<I>Little Sunshine [Al Jolson in "Big Boy"]</I>

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<I>Lobo, No. 1</I>

<I>Long Shadows</I>

<I>Lonnie C. King Oral History Interview</I>

<I>Loose Thread Stool</I>

<I>Lorraine Hansberry: The Black Experience in the Creation of Drama</I>

<I>Louis Jordan "Blue Light Boogie": Mr. Personality, In Person!</I>

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<I>Louise Willingham Broadway Oral History Interview</I>

<I>Love Him As He Is</I>

<I>Love Will Find a Way</I>