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Charles Lang Freer's vouchers for art purchases in 1903. While Freer generally conducted business in English, some papers in this project may include other languages and alphabets or character systems, including Chinese, Japanese, German, and French. Please only transcribe the language(s) with which you are familiar, and reference the Charles Lang Freer Papers Instructions for more information.
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As part of the National Portrait Gallery's education program "Face-to-Face," NPG researcher Warren Perry discusses a portrait of Toni Morrison by Robert McCurdy. Toni Morrison has been writing about the experiences of African Americans since her first novel, The Bluest Eye, appeared in 1970. With the publication of each new work, both her fan base and critical acclaim grew, and she won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon (1977) and the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987). In 1993 Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first black woman to become a Nobel laureate. This 2006 portrait of Toni Morrison, by Robert McCurdy, is on view in the "Twentieth Century Americans" exhibition at National Portrait Gallery, on the museum's third floor. Warren Perry, researcher at the National Portrait Gallery, discussed the painting at a Face-to-Face portrait talk.
NatalieK transcribed a page from Mississippi Field Offices, Subordinate Field Offices: Columbus, Registers of Complaints, Vol. 1 (112), Aug. 1867–Jan. 1868
Jean Barsaloux transcribed a page from Texas Assistant Commissioner, Letters Sent, Vol. 1 (4), Sept. 1865–Mar. 1867
dknic transcribed a page from Charles Lang Freer Papers, Art vouchers, 1903
