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Description:: 11 shapes form an arch showing images of buildings, shrines, and tombs associated with Muslim saints. "Madinat al Awliya" translates to "City of Saints" in English, and is a nickname for Hārer. The buildings are primarily green and white. One (in the lower right corner) is the tomb of Emir Nur.
Date:: [between 2004 and 2010?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: A young woman in 3/4 profile is holding what appears to be a large container on her head with her left arm. She is wearing a black and white thin headband, a beaded choker, and several other necklaces of beads, and possibly leather thongs. Several thin metal bands are around her left wrist, and a larger tan bracelet is around her left forearm.
Date:: [between 1970 and 1990?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hapte Selassie
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: A photo of the large church in Kulubi, Ethiopia on St. Gabriel's Day, with crowds of Orthodox pilgrims outside, many wearing white and carrying umbrellas.
Date:: [between 1965 and 2010]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: "Ethiopia" is printed in white in calligraphic font over the image. Rest of text printed in black on a white block below the image.
Date:: [between 1965 and 1990?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: Title is printed in black in lower case on a white background.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Tessore, Alberto, 1937-
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: A headshot of a smiling Beni-Amer boy. He has ritual scars on his cheeks and his hair ringlets are stiffened with mud. The photo was taken in Tesseney, Eritrea.
Date:: 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Blair, James P.
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: 20 squares of Black women's hairstyles placed in a grid formation, 4 x 5, each square has two angles of the hairstyle shown. Two upper body shots of men are on the top corners. 8 smaller pictures of men are along the bottom of the poster.
Date:: [between 1995 and 2010?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: Poster is focused on three Ethiopian women standing amongst others and trees. All women have their heads covered. The woman on the left is carrying a basket containing a wrapped object on her head, and her head covering is brown. The woman in the middle is wearing an orange head covering and bright blue dress. She is carrying a gourd in her right hand. The woman on the right is carrying a gourd in her left hand and a measuring cup in her right. The woman on the right is in the process of either adding or removing something from the middle woman's gourd with the cup.
Date:: [between 1965 and 2010]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Kyriazis-Zervos
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: Title in white capital letters along right side of poster. Image to the left of title. Rest of text printed in black on a white block below the image.
Date:: [between 1965 and 2010]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gerster, Georg, 1928-
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: A woman stands submerged to her waist in a hot spring. She is wearing a patterned orange bikini top and a green and white flowered head wrap. Her head is turned, looking over towards her left shoulder, gazing towards the right side of the poster.
Date:: [between 1970 and 1990]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hapte Selassie
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

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