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Custom Craft (15) Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) (15) Scurlock, Addison N. (15) Scurlock, George H. (Hardison) (15) Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders) (15) Howard University (13) DuBois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) (12) Washington, Booker T. (12) Smithsonian Folklife Festival (5) Ellington, Duke (4) Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David) (4) Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (4) Carter, Jimmy, 1924- (3) Fitzgerald, Ella (3) Lomax, Alan (3) Mead, Margaret (3) Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology (3) Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier) (2) Armstrong, Louis (2) Avery, Milton (2) Benton, Elizabeth Cornell (2) Boas, Franz (2) Calloway, Cab, 1907- (2) Carter, Benny (2) Chase, William Merritt (2) Cornell, Joseph (2) Cornell, Robert (2) Curtis, Edward S. (2) Decca (recording company). (2) Dockstader, Frederick J. (2) Duke Ellington Orchestra (2)

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