An image of Michael Jordan dribbling a basketball. He is wearing his Chicago Bulls jersey. The image is reflected and repeated that has a mirrored effect on each side of the central shot of Jordan.
A 64 page recipe book produced by Walter Baker & Co. that contains chocolate, cocoa and homemade candy recipes. The cover of the book consists of a decorative floral border with an image of a woman holding a serving tray of hot chocolate at the center. The female chocolate server, called La Belle Chocolatiere, was adopted as the logo for Walter Baker & Co. in 1883 and is derived after a painting b
A color pencil and photographic collage featuring an image of Cicely Tyson as part of the Icons series by Rico Gatson. The collage is on white paper mounted on white board and framed inside a white, rectangular, shadow box. At the bottom center of the collage is a cutout, black-and-white photographic image of Cicely Tyson. Tyson is shown from the chest up, leaning slightly forward, and smiling at
This highly detailed drawing by Julian Abele Cook, Sr. depicts the face of Philadelphia City Hall clock tower. Cook’s drawing captures a semi-profile view of the tower, on a light brown woven piece of note paper by Charleston, South Carolina’s Walker Evans & Cogswell Company. In black type this company paper has mottos printed at the top and bottom which read, “REMEMBER US / When in need of suppli
A fourteen-page pamphlet of a speech by Representative Hon. Alonzo J. Ransier, of South Carolina. It is a narrow rectangular bound pamphlet of off-white paper with black printed text. The cover text reads [Civil Rights. / SPEECH / of/ HON. ALONZO J. RANSIER, / of / South Carolina, / in / The House of Representatives, / February 7, 1874 / WASHINGTON: / Government Printing Office. / 1874]. In the up
The illustration shows a white bride and a caricatured Black groom appearing before a minister. The groom says "Massa, you must marry us. De law says so." The minister sighs "Marriage is a contract. I must do this or be fined." Text below the illustration reads [The President vetoed the Bill in order to protect the White Man. / Congress passed it over his head to benefit the Negro.] and continues
The oral history consists of twelve digital files: 2011.174.84.1a, 2011.174.84.1b, 2011.174.84.1c, 2011.174.84.1d, 2011.174.84.1e, 2011.174.84.1f, 2011.174.84.1g, 2011.174.84.1h, 2011.174.84.1i, 2011.174.84.1j, and 2011.174.84.1k, 2011.174.84.1l.
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.
A song book with sheet music for the 1974 film, Claudine. The front cover is white with rows of orange hearts, black text, and eight (8) color photographs. Black cursive text at the top of front cover reads, [Claudine]. Across the center of the front cover is a light blue field. At the center of the blue field is a large color image of Gladys Knight and the Pips. Gladys Knight is depicted wearing
A vinyl record (a) with cardboard jacket (b) and paper sleeve (c).The front of the album jacket features a central color image of three men and one woman, Gladys Knight and the Pips. Knight wears a blue dress and the three men wear matching red shirts with blue vests and ties. The central image is surrounded by seven (7) color images from the film, in oval shaped vignettes. At top is [GLADYS KNIGH