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Repository Exhibition: For Love of Illusion, ART | library deco, ART | library deco, The Librarian: 1879 - 1950

For Love of Illusion documents the life of Bella da Costa Greene

Tags: Art Collector, Bella da Costa Greene, Collection, J.P. Morgan Chase, Librarian, Repository

Reclaiming My Time: The Writings of Etta Baldwin Oldham, Image Designed by kYmberly Keeton, ART_library deco, 2017

Reclaiming My Time: The Writings of Etta Baldwin Oldham, is a mini-collection of writings found through the internet public domain.

Realization: Augusta Savage, Andrew Herman, photographer., Archives of American Art, circa 1938

Augusta Savage posing with her sculpture Realization, created as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.

Tags: African American, Augusta Savage, Photography, Sculpture Artist, Woman

Printing with printing presses at Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C., Unknown, Library of Congress, 1899-1890

Photographic digital print of African American's working inside printing presses in the United States.

Tags: African Americans, Education, Printing Presses, Vocational education

Pedro's Pirate, Author: Etta Baldwin Oldham Illustrator: Marian Cannon, Boston, New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., [©1941]

Book Jacket | "Pedro's Pirate" : fiction for juvenile audiences and written in Panama by Etta Baldwin Oldham.

Tags: Etta Baldwin Oldham, Fiction, Literary, Panama, Pedro's Pirate, Research

Pamela Council, African American Artist, Photo by Joe Gall for Red Bull, Red Bull, 2020

Pamela Council was born in Southampton, New York and currently resides in Bronxville, where she works to produce sculpture, textiles, print-based…

ART | library deco, Oral History with Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn, ART l library deco REPOSITORY, July 1, 2020

Oral history conducted about the life of African American educator, club and sorority woman.

Tags: AKA, Austin, Douglass Club, Educator, Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn, San Angelo, Texas, Top Ladies

Research Compiled by kYmberly Keeton, Book Club Moderator 2016, NW by Zadie Smith, Social Literati Book Club Reader’s Guide, © 2016 bookista media group

Reader's Guide Content:
Book Summary
Zadie Smith Guide to NW
Zadie Smith Quotes in NW
5 Great Essays to read by Zadie Smith
Joy

Tags: Book Club, Literary Guide, Zadie Smith

Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie Yates in a Decorated Buggy for Juneteenth at Antioch Baptist Church, Fourth Ward, Houston, Texas, Donor of Image: Whiting, Martha Countee, 1912-2012, Schlueters Advertising & Souvenir Photographs: Houston, Texas, Event: 1908

From left to right: Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie Yates (both in white dresses and hats) sitting in a buggy decorated with flowers for the annual…

Tags: 1908, Antioch Baptist Church, Fourth Ward, Houston, Juneteenth, Texas, Yates Family

Maquette for Ethiopia (later known as Ethiopia Awakening), Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Meta V. W. Fuller Trust., 1921

Contorted figures were exhibited at the Maison de l’Art Nouveau, critiqued by Auguste Rodin, and included in the 1903 Salon.

Tags: African American, Ethiopia Awakening, Meta Warrick Fuller, Paris, Sculpture Artist, W.E.B. DuBois