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    Beginnings

    Portrait of Benjamin Franklin wearing a grey suit and vest, he has a thin tired smile

    Explorations

    Detail of Hunt-Lenox globe, crafted of copper ca. 1508

    Childhood

    Closeup photo of the original, historic stuffed animals Winnie the Pooh and Kanga with part of Eeyore in the background.

    Fortitude

    Detail of manuscript of James Baldwin's “Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis, in care of the Silent Majority”

    The Written Word

    Detail of frontispiece of Shakespeare's portfolio showing an engraving of the author in 17th-century dress. Above it reads: Published according to the true original copies.

    The Visual World

    Detail of two bronze sculptures of an African man and woman by Charles Henri Joseph Cordier

    Women's Work

    Beadwork in triangular and geometric patterns of many colors, attached to a threaded “belt” and decorated at bottom with a row of cowrie shells dangling from gathered threads

    Belief

    Detail of an illustration from Siyer-i Nebī (Life of the Prophet), a 13th-century illuminated manuscript copied in the 16th century

    New York City

    Detail of small bronze model of a larger sculpture called Lift Every Voice and Sing (Harp), which features a line of people of various heights standing close together so they resemble a harp.

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