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Button, Political

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Political button against US Involvement in Vietnam War.

Thin metal disk, back painted orange, with lip stamped toward back. Front of disk covered by paper with printed design. Design on yellow background, in orange letters - VIETNAM/For…

Doll, Mary McLeod Bethune

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Doll depicting Mary McLeod Bethune. African American female, gray hair in bun style, gray wool jacket and skirt, rose blouse, lavender flower in lapel, tan socks, black shoes, red stone ring on right hand, diamond ring on left.

Starting in the…

Doll, Harriet Tubman

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Doll depicting Harriet Tubman. African American female with red scarf with floral print, blue jacket, black skirt, carrying pouch and rifle.

Starting in the 1960s, I. Roberta Bell, a Chicago school teacher, created a set of 26 dolls to help teach…

Figurine, Akua'ba

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Akua'ba figurine relating to fertility.

Postcard, Don Quixote

Black and white postcard representing skeleton version of Don Quixote on skeleton horse surrounded by smaller skeletons in various positions.

Back:
Upper left - José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican lithographer (1852-1913) "Don Quixote."
Lower…

Postcard, La Calavera de Cupido

Black and white postcard with six male and female skeletal couples. Each dressed and in various courting poses placed in three vertical rows.

Back:
Upper left - José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican lithographer (1852-1913). La Calavera de Cupido…

Coin

Face: bust of female, 25 centavos.
Back: coat of arms, Republica de Guatemala, 0.720, 1960.

Album, Woodblock Prints

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Album bound in heavy brown paper with a wooden spine. The binding exhibits a star-motif.

The album holds 48 pages of woodblock prints. Most of the prints are attributed to one of the late great print masters of the Edo period (1603-1868), Utagawa…