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Shilpa Agarwal Talks About Being Asian American at Duke During the Early 1990s
Shilpa Agarwal talks about developing her Asian American identity at Duke -
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Potato Sorting Facility, Carteret County, NC, June 1972.
Potato sorting facility, Carteret County, NC, June 1972
Alex Harris Photographs and Papers
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Migrant workers, Camden, NC, June 1972.
Migrant workers, Camden, NC, June 1972
Alex Harris Photographs and Papers
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Migrant Crew Bross, Mount Olive, May 1972.
Migrant crew boss, Mount Olive, NC, May 1972
Alex Harris Photographs and Papers
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Alexandri ab Alexandro iurisperiti Neapolitani genialium dierum libri sex, varia ac recondita eruditione referti
Charlotte Guillard was one of the most eminent of the approximately fifty women printers in sixteenth-century Paris. She edited and published in Latin, Greek and French. Married to two printers, and twice widowed, she printed under her own name. Guillard was responsible for the printing works, a bookshop, property, and leases. She began printing in 1502 and continued until her death in 1557. A consummate businesswoman and scholar, she printed substantial academic, legal and religious texts, over two hundred titles in all. -
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Am I Not a Woman and a Sister
The iconic figure of a bound captive woman is based on the 1787 Wedgwood Jasperware medallion Am I Not a Man and a Brother, made originally for Thomas Clarkson’s British Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. In 1837 the American Anti-Slavery Society commissioned Gibbs, Gardner and Company to strike a token commemorating the formation of the Liberty Party. An advertisement in the 27 November 1837 issue of The Emancipator announces the availability of the tokens for one dollar per hundred. The ad also notes plans to produce and sell a counterpart with a male figure. The U.S. Mint Director quickly shut down the circulation of the coin the same year. -
Leonard Nimoy as Spock, promoting the Great American Smokeout
Leonard Nimoy smoked heavily for thirty-seven years, and despite quitting in the 1980s was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He was an active anti-smoking advocate until his death in 2015. COPD is the third leading cause of death in the United States; most cases of COPD are caused by smoking. -
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Southern Women and Lynching
Jessie Daniel Ames began her career in the suffrage and women’s rights movements in Texas. She was the treasurer of the Texas Equal Suffrage Association when Texas became the first southern state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. She became disillusioned by the suffrage movement’s exclusion of black women. In 1922 Ames became director of women’s work for the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta. In 1930 Ames founded the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, organizing against lynching in Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma and thoroughly repudiating the idea that lynching was a defense of southern white girls. -
Daily Bread (Cover)
Daily Bread. Amy Pirkle. Perkolator Press, 2006.
Cover. These foldout pages include illustrations relief printed from linoleum blocks. The text explores the cultural associations of bread. -
Daily Bread (Open)
Daily Bread. Amy Pirkle. Perkolator Press, 2006.
Open. These foldout pages include illustrations relief printed from linoleum blocks. The text explores the cultural associations of bread. -
Smoke (View 1)
Smoke. Amy Pirkle. Perkolator Press, 2006.
Eight vignettes scrolled into the form of cigarettes retell the story of the artist's relationship to her Grandfather, who died of lung cancer.
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