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Watch from the inaugural Acapulco Black Film Festival awarded to Jeff Friday

A commemorative wrist watch presented to Jeff Friday at the inaugural Acapulco Black Film Festival (ABFF) held June 24-29, 1997. The Wittnauer Swiss Movement watch has a white dial with a black hands and minute markers. The watch case, buckle, and stick markers are gold toned and the straps are black faux leather. The watch dial is dominated by a central graphic of the ABFF logo, which resembles a

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Watkinsville (Agent)

Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Waverly (Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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Wax figurine of a caricatured vegetable vendor

A plastic miniature of a basket filled with produce. The basket is yellow plastic, with a woven design around the sides. The basket is filled with produce. Identifiable produce includes a head of cabbage and an eggplant. On each side of the cabbage head are three (3) yellow tubular vegetables and three (3) red tubular vegetables. A yellow gourd-like item sits in front of the cabbage, next to the e

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Wax flowers worn by Florance Trevor

H x W x D (largest): 8 5/8 × 2 1/2 × 1 3/8 in. (21.9 × 6.4 × 3.5 cm)

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Wax jack owned by the Dennis Family

The taper holder is a silver plated piece with three hallmarks or maker's marks pressed into the rim of the saucer/dish base. The center of the dish curves upward to support two curved parabolic prongs which curve out and up before meeting again at the top of the piece where they support a small metal cylinder with a circle cut in its center. A spool of candle wax wound on a thin metal rod with an

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Wayne County (Superintendent)

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Waynesboro (Agent)

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Wedding Invitation Suite: Invitation

Wedding invitation designed by Hadiya Williams for the wedding of Shantrelle Lewis and Oluwatoyin Lawson held in the gold sleeve and maroon envelope, [2018.30.1f-g]. The navy blue wedding invitation is vertically oriented and decorated with gold pigment in linear art-deco style. The bride and groom’s names are printed in cursive in the center of the invitation, reading [Shantrelle / & / Oluwatoyin

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Wedding Invitation Suite: Invitation

Wedding invitation designed by Hadiya Williams for the wedding of Shantrelle Lewis and Oluwatoyin Lawson. The navy blue wedding invitation is vertically oriented and decorated with gold pigment in linear art-deco style. The bride and groom’s names are printed in cursive in the center of the invitation, reading [Shantrelle / & / Oluwatoyin]. At the top center of the invitation, is the letter [Z] su

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Wedding Invitation Suite: Invitation gold sleeve

Gold tissue paper sleeve containing wedding invitation [2018.30.1e] designed by Hadiya Williams for the wedding of Shantrelle Lewis and Oluwatoyin Lawson. The gold sleeve opens at the top and has a semi-circle cut out at the center. The front of the sleeve has a gold wax stamp with a lion insignia. The lion is in silhouette standing on its hind legs, one leg rests on a crescent moon while his arms

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Wedding Invitation Suite: Invitation with attached RSVP token envelope

Wedding invitation designed by Hadiya Williams for the wedding of Shantrelle Lewis and Oluwatoyin Lawson. The navy blue wedding invitation is vertically oriented and decorated with gold pigment in linear art-deco style. The bride and groom’s names are printed in cursive, in the center of the invitation, reading [Shantrelle / & / Oluwatoyin]. At the top center of the invitation, is the letter [Z],

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