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"Hallelujah"

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This is the “Hallelujah" hair comb designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The silver hair comb is comprised of two long, curved hair prongs which mirror one another in shape. At the shaft of the comb, where the two prongs meet, are three decorative u-shaped metal pieces stacked with space and decreasing in size. They are soldered in the back.The hair comb has one hallmark on one of the hair pr

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"Hanging Gardens"

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This is the “Hanging Gardens" ring designed and created by Art Smith. The ring’s wide sterling silver band has a large bridge. The head of the ring is made of three flattened plates of sterling silver, stacked on top one another and decreasing in size to the top. The polished and oval-shaped brownish-red gemstone horizontally set in a bezel setting, encased in metal overlapping the edges of the ge

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"I Have a Dream": The Life of Martin Luther King

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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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"I Have a Dream": The Life of Martin Luther King

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"Keel"

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This is the “Keel" ring designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The sterling silver ring is made of one piece of silver. It has a large, diamond-shaped bridge, which is also one end of the band. The remaining band creates the base of the ring with the other end of the band vertically running through the diamond-shaped bridge. A movable, spherical, smoothly polished green jade is set between the

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"Lady Day"

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Russell may have been inspired by Smith’s love of jazz and connections to Holiday when naming this piece. An abiding jazz aficionado, jazz was one of the inspirations for Smith’s work. He liked to attend live jazz performances in Harlem and collected record albums by his favorite artists. Smith began his career working as an apprentice to modernist jewelry designer, Winifred Mason Chenet, who coun

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"Lesser Chrysoprase"

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This is the “Lesser Chrysoprase" ring designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The ring’s sterling silver band is a wide and flat split shank design. At the bridge of the ring, each of the two bands have an internal edge that is pointed. The large, green cabochon of chrysoprase is smoothly polished into an oval shape. The chrysoprase is set horizontally in a bezel setting, encased in metal overl

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"Magic"

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This is the “Magic" ring designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The sterling silver ring is composed of a wire band placed over a flattened band. The two bands overlap at the base and bridge of the ring. Both bands are open-ended with overlapped ends at the bridge. The wire band has rounded flat ends while the flattened band has wide and flat rectangular ends. The ring has one hallmark stamped

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"Ode to the Evening" in Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, From Eight to Fifteen Years of Age

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Fifth edition copy of Juvenile Letters: Being a Correspondence Between Children, from Eight to Fifteen Years of Age by Caleb Bingham and printed in 1809 by Lincoln and Edmands in Boston, Massachusetts. Phillis Wheatley is mentioned on page 57, where the letter author requests a volume of her poems. A response letter includes the poem "ODE TO THE EVENING" on pages 61 and 62. Front flyleaf has inscr

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"On Recollection," in The Gentleman's Magazine

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An edition of Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1773, edited and published by David Henry in London. Page 456 features the poem "On Recollection" by Phillis Wheatley and includes a small review that partly reads: [This piece is taken from a small collection of Poems on Various Subjects, just published, written by Phillis Wheatley, a negro of Boston, who was brought from Africa in 1761, and is no

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"On the Death of a Child, Five Years of Age" in Arminian Magazine

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An issue of The Arminian Magazine for August 1789. The issue features the 20-line poem “On the Death of a Child, Five Years of Age” and attributes it as [By Phillis Wheatly, a negro]. Previously bound, possibly as part of a larger volume of Arminian Magazine content. Magazine pages are numbered 353 to 404. Leather spine is slightly powdering and cracking. Interior pages are yellowed, with foxing,

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"Pee Dee," Georgetown

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A digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Great Pee Dee River in South Carolina. The river can be seen meandering through the middle of the image. Wetlands on either of its sides appear greenish-brown and the one on the left retains many vestigial canals. Wooden fences can be seen protruding out of the water where some of these canals connect to the main river chann

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