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An End to Waiting

1 pp

A black-and-white photograph of Ellen Scurlock walking down the steps at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, D.C. with a poem to Robert Scurlock on the back titled: "An End to Waiting." There is an inscription on the front of the lower right side that reads: [Always yours, Ellen]. The back of the photograph has a three-stanza poem written in black ink.

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An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species

1 pp

A second edition copy of An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and figure in the Human Species by Samuel Stanhope Smith, published in 1810. The text is a defense of the potential of Africans and their descendents, and suggests that dark skin is "a universal freckle." On pages 266 and 269, Smith refutes Jefferson's comments on Phillis Wheatley, writing "The poems of Phillis Whatley [s

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An Evening With Diana Ross

1 pp

H x W (album jacket): 12 5/16 × 12 5/16 in. (31.3 × 31.3 cm)

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An Evening With Diana Ross

1 pp

H x W (album jacket): 12 5/16 × 12 5/16 in. (31.3 × 31.3 cm)

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book

An Explanatory and Phonographic Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language

1 pp

H x W (closed): 9 3/4 × 7 1/4 × 3 1/8 in. (24.8 × 18.4 × 7.9 cm)

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photograph

An Hour's Hunting

2 pp

A stereograph titled "An Hour's Hunting" printed and photographed by O. Pierre Havens of Savannah, Georgia. The albumen prints depict an unidentified woman and an unidentified girl seated on the open doorstep of a log building. The girl's head rests in the woman's lap. The woman looks down at the child with her hands in the child's hair. The prints are mounted on card stock that is orange on the f

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An Introduction to the Black Panther Party

1 pp

A 26 page pamphlet about the Black Panther Party. The pamphlet was originally written by the John Brown Society in May 1968 and later edited with new material by The Radical Education Project in May 1969. The front features a black and white image of two men, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton (holding a shotgun), standing in front of a banner reading [BLACK PANTHER PARTY]. The image is framed in red. Be

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An Ode to Yemaya

1 pp

A pigment print photograph in a mirrored frame depicting the photographer's young daughter with an unidentified older woman in a home in Salvador, Brazil. The girl stands on a couch with a draped red cover. She wears an elaborate gold crown with a center fish design from which hang strands of delicate gold beads across her face. She holds a small scepter surmounted with a broad, leaf-shaped struct

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painting

An Offering #1

1 pp

A mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of a figure against a gold background. The figure, shown from the waist up, wears a yellow garment with a white cloth draped around the shoulders.

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painting

An Offering #2

1 pp

A mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of a figure against a gold background. The figure, shown from the waist up, wears a white garment with yellow cloth draped around the shoulders. A

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An Offering #3

1 pp

A mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of a child figure against a gold background. The figure, shown from the hips up, wears a white garment with rounded collar and a red fabric wrap ar

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An Offering #4

1 pp

A mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of a figure against a gold background. The figure, shown from the waist up, wears a yellow, sleeved garment with a grey cloth draped asymmetrically

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<I>An Evening With Diana Ross</I>

<I>An Explanatory and Phonographic Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language</I>

<I>An Hour's Hunting</I>

<I>An Introduction to the Black Panther Party</I>

<I>An Ode to Yemaya</I>

<I>An Offering #1</I>

<I>An Offering #2</I>

<I>An Offering #3</I>

<I>An Offering #4</I>