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Brochure for The First Annual Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition, 1984 with Elayne Duke as president and Igor Chichagov as music director of The Rosa Ponselle Foundation. Short biography of Rosa Ponselle, lists prizes, judges, timeline…

First closed-circuit-televised "blue baby" surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, overhead horizontal view.

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A young Josephine. She challenged the prevailing image of beauty for Black women.

In a 1969 letter, Curt Flood declares:

“I do not feel that I’m a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes…” Refusing the trade, Flood challenged baseball’s reserve clause – a provision of every major league contract that…