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Jerash Diary (March 31, 1933 – July 1, 1933): April 24, 1933. n.d. Part of Dura-Europos and Gerasa (Yale University), Artstor.
John Pruitt, Benjamin E. Mays, and WSB-TV. Mays Discusses Desegregation’s Effect on the Quality of Education. January 22, 1970. Part of WSB-TV newsfilm collection, University of Georgia Digital Library of Georgia.
Moche Culture. Seated Figure of Deer Impersonator. 250 – 550 A.D. Part of Art Institute of Chicago, Artstor.
John Gibson. Bust of a Gentleman. ca. 1830–40. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.
Unknown maker. Bain’s Chemical Telegraph, 1850. 1850. Part of Open: Science Museum Group, Artstor.
William Stanley Haseltine. Baths of Trajan (Sette Sale, Villa Brancaccio, Rome). ca. 1882. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.
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Chinese. Three-Sectional Altar Group: Cylindrical Carving with Phoenix (Lid). 1644–1911. Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Artstor.
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Erik Hermans. A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages. Editorial: Leeds, Arc Humanities Press, 2020.
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Doubleday, Page & Company. An Academic Class; A Problem in Brick Masonry; Mr. Washington Always Insisted upon Correlation: That Is, Drawing the Problems from the Various Shops and Laboratories. Published: Garden City, N.Y., Issued: 1916. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Part of Booker T. Washington, builder of a civilization, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library), Artstor.
The Movement. January 1970. Vols. 5–12. The Movement Press. Periodical, The Movement Newspaper collection. The Freedom Archives.
William Michael Harnett. A Study Table. 1882. Part of Minneapolis College of Art and Design Collection, Artstor.
An Indian (?) Man Seated, Reading a Book. n.d. Part of Open: Wellcome Collection, Artstor.
Whittaker and Company, and Andrew Pritchard. “A List of Two Thousand Microscopic Objects” Book by Andrew Pritchard, England, 1835, 1835. Part of Open: Science Museum Group, Artstor.
Denis Bourdon. Cabinet Card of Frederick Douglass with His Grandson, Joseph Douglass. May 10, 1894. Part of Charlene Hodges Byrd Collection, Open: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Artstor.
Egyptian. Face from a Cosmetic Spoon. 1391–1353 BC. Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Artstor.
Rolando Córdova Cabeza. Day of World Solidarity with the Struggle of the People of Puerto Rico. 1976. Part of The Lindsay Webster Collection of Cuban Posters, Wofford College.
South African Communist Party. The Path to Power. Programs (Programmes), 1989. Part of South African Communist Party, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa.
Leopoldo Mendez. Nazi Propaganda and Espionage. 1937. Part of Seattle Art Museum, Artstor.
“The Italian Scene. Vol. XV – N.6 June 1969” XV, no. 6 (June 1, 1969): 1–16. Part of The Italian Scene. A Bulletin of Cultural Information (1953-1969), Sorbello Foundation.
David Shambaugh. “China’s Propaganda System: Institutions, Processes and Efficacy.” The China Journal, no. 57 (2007): 25–58.