When artist Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown came across postcards with photographs of unidentified Black women from the early 20th century, she felt an immediate kinship. "I saw them and wanted to know more," she says of the images she unearthed from the archives in her role as public humanities fellow for the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. Utilizing materials from the university's rare book, manuscript, and archival collections, de la Brown made the postcards an integral part of her recent art installation, Be(longing).
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