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Title: Not with Empty Hands
Date(s): 1966
Contributor(s): American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority (Sponsor), Karamu House (Contributor), General Pictures Corporation (Production company)
Description: A film produced by the American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority (ANECA), Ohio Division, detailing the history of Black people in Ohio. The film opens and closes with a reenactment of an enslaved African American man escaping across the Ohio River to a free Ohio. Uses a combination of historical re-enactment, historical footage, and footage of prominent Black figures, such as Dr. Middleton Lambright, Dr. Zelma Watson George, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., and Noble Lee Sissle. With...
Show moreA film produced by the American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority (ANECA), Ohio Division, detailing the history of Black people in Ohio. The film opens and closes with a reenactment of an enslaved African American man escaping across the Ohio River to a free Ohio. Uses a combination of historical re-enactment, historical footage, and footage of prominent Black figures, such as Dr. Middleton Lambright, Dr. Zelma Watson George, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., and Noble Lee Sissle. With participation from Karma House, Cleveland's oldest African American theatre.
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Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC113
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: The Ohio Story - Background Art
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company), Ohio Bell Telephone Company (Sponsor)
Description: Includes pieces of background art used for the television program, The Ohio Story. Five paintings depict the view from a stained-glass window; view from a stage looking outward to an audience; a wall with a window, curtain, and bust; the interior of a printer's studio; and the interior of a market. A photograph depicts a commemorative marker for the home of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet and playwright from Dayton, Ohio.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films
Hagley ID: AVD_2019227_23_15
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Ask to hear Dinah, a jewel of close harmony by the Revelers
Date(s): 1926-02-06
Contributor(s): RCA-Victor Company, inc. (originator), Revelers Quartet (Vocal group) (depicted)
Description: Red Seal Records advertisement.
Collection ID: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics (Accession 2014.277), The Saturday Evening Post
Hagley ID: AVDJOPN2014_victor-sep-2-6-1926-3
Collection: John Okolowicz collection of publications and advertising on radio and consumer electronics

Title: The People's Art: Black Murals, 1967-1978:
Date(s): 1978
Contributor(s): (issuing body), (author of introduction, etc.), (author of introduction, etc.), (contributor), (contributor), (contributor), (contributor)
Description: Exhibition pamphlet meant to coincide with an exhibit on community murals at the African American Historical and Cultural Museum in Philadelphia.
Collection ID: f Pam 2001.501
Hagley ID: Trade_Cats_1032013_048
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Quilting Bee
Date(s): 1970
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (sponsor), Freedom Quilting Bee (Organization : Ala.) (associated name)
Description: The Freedom Quilting Bee of Gee's Bend, Alabama uses Dacron to create quilts, including a 44 x 20 foot quilt hanging at Sakowitz department store in Houston, Texas for the Festival of Folkways. From Compilation Reel 02.
Collection ID: William Henry Radebaugh films and scripts (Accession 1975.412)
Hagley ID: FILM_1975412_FC15_11
Collection: William Henry Radebaugh films