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Description:: An outline of the city of Harar is superimposed over a photo near the walls of Harar. Hyenas are photoshopped into the background. Inside the outline of the city are photographs of the five gates, with their names printed over them.
Date:: [between 2004 and 2010?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: An ad for Sofn'free hair products. 20 different headshots of 19 Black men and 1 Black woman showing various hairstyle options. Images are set up in a grid pattern. Background is black.
Date:: [between 1995 and 2010?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: Poster divided up into 9 geometric shapes showing images from the Muslim culture of Hārer. The signs in the pictures are written in Arabic. Some of the images include old texts, buildings, tombs, cemeteries, crafts, and religious paraphernalia. Background poster is white, sections are divided up by green lines.
Date:: [between 2004 and 2010?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

Description:: Shows 6 images of Koromi, a village populated by the Argobba people, an Ethiopian Muslim ethnic group. Images include buildings made of stones, a green stone tomb, a goatherder, smiling children, and a person constructing what appears to be a screen or net. Images are outlined in red.
Date:: [between 2004 and 2010?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

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 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:: 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:: An Amer girl (Hamer?) is shown from the shoulders up, looking to the right side of the poster. Her hair has numerous tiny dreadlocks, and she is wearing large metal chokers and metal earrings.
Date:: [between 1965 and 2010]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Vallee, P.
Collection:: Ethiopian Posters

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