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Upholstered side chair from Mae's Millinery Shop

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High-backed wooden side chair with an upholstered seat and back. The chair has early Baroque ball turned front legs and straight back legs. There is a carved scallop with feathered edges at the center of the front stretcher, the side stretchers are straight and there is no rear stretcher. The crest of the seat back has a carved late Baroque style shell design at the center and two inward-facing ea

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Upholstered yellow armchair from Mae's Millinery Shop

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An upholstered yellow high-backed armchair with a wooden frame painted off-white. The top of the back edge is higher in the middle, and with a turned finial at each side. The arms are rectangular and flat, with turned bulbous front section reaching between the arm and the seat. Caning is attached on each side between the arms, seat, and chair back. The front legs are tapered while the back legs ar

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Upright acoustic double bass owned by Stanley Clarke

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Upright bass with four (4) strings. Scroll at top with black pegs, tuners, and tuning keys. Saddle at bottom made of black wood. Steel strings at bottom are strung with green fibers. Bass stands upright on an endpin.

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Upright piano used by Thom Bell at Philadelphia International Records

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An aqua blue painted upright piano used by producer and arranger Thom Bell in his office at Philadelphia International Records. The lid of the piano is hinged and can open to reveal the frame, hammer rail and hammers. At the top of the frame in the upper left corner on raised text with black paint is “STEINWAY & SONS NEW YORK HAMBURG.” On the frame back near the manufacturer’s name is the serial n

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Used red pencil from Mae's Millinery Shop

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H x W x D: 1/4 × 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (0.6 × 0.6 × 10.8 cm)

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Usher badge from New Bethany Baptist Church

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This is a faux gold usher badge was worn by Ruby Penn, a onetime member on the usher board at New Bethany Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. The badge is comprised of two major sections - a horizontal bar from which a round pendant hangs suspended from two chains. The top section has a pin back on its reverse; the obverse is a white rectangle of plastic framed by an ornate faux gold foliage patter

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Vanessa Moorer Family Home Movies

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Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts. Supported by the Center for the Digitization and Curation of African American History.

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Vanity from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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2011.12.20b: The mirror section of a vanity from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The mirror is constructed with four wooden pieces: a frame for the mirror glass, a base, and two carved brackets that flank either side of the mirror. All four pieces are medium and dark finished burl wood. The mirror is roughly tablet shaped and set within the thin wooden frame. The frame has a center flute that runs aro

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Various component pieces for the Ampex Reel-to-Reel 300-3 recorder

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d) Round metal tape reel. Etched into reel near center is, [REG. U.S. PAT. OFF./SCOTCH/BRAND/Magnetic Tape]. Etched in to opposite end of reel is [MADE IN U.S.A. BY MINNESOTA MINING AND/MANUFACTURING COMPANY ST. PAUL 6. MINN./PATENTED UNDER ONE OR MORE OF U.S. PATENTS NOS. 2654681, 2694656, 2711901.]. Hand etched near the center of the reel is [HANDS OFF]. Hand etched in to the edge of both sides

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Vegetable basket

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H x W x D: 19 1/8 × 19 1/8 × 2 15/16 in. (48.5 × 48.5 × 7.5 cm)

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Velarie Harvell Family Home Movies

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Velvet clutch evening bag belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

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This is a black velvet and silk evening bag and attached change purse belonging to Etta Moten Barnett. The bag is a rectangular clutch with a hinged opening. The mouth of purse closes with a metal snap closure on the center top of the bag. The closure is decorated with a gold-colored ornament covered in clear crystals. The ornament is a long, narrow and square piece of metal that curls into scroll

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Upholstered side chair from Mae's Millinery Shop

Upholstered yellow armchair from Mae's Millinery Shop

Upright acoustic double bass owned by Stanley Clarke

Upright piano used by Thom Bell at Philadelphia International Records

Used red pencil from Mae's Millinery Shop

Usher badge from New Bethany Baptist Church

Vanessa Moorer Family Home Movies

Vanity from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Various component pieces for the Ampex Reel-to-Reel 300-3 recorder

Vegetable basket

Velarie Harvell Family Home Movies

Velvet clutch evening bag belonging to Etta Moten Barnett