Photos of the Watching Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and American Culture Exhibit, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington DC. The exhibit runs from June 8, 2018 to June 7, 2019. Click on an image to enlarge.
Handbill advertising a Youth Celebration of Brown v. Board of Education, 1954. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Diploma for Carlotta Walls from Little Rock, AR, Central High School. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Carlotta Walls LaNier.
Suit worn by Oprah Winfrey on the car giveaway episode, 2004. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Oprah Winfrey.
Pennant from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Edith Lee-Payne & Family.
Advertisement for Eyewitness News at 10, 1975. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Model of Oprah Winfrey’s childhood church, Buffalo Community Church in Mississippi. Gift of Dwight Brown Sr. 2006. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Oprah Winfrey with her mother, Vernita Lee, 1966. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, 1976. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Photograph of Oprah Winfrey at the Nashville airport, heading to Kansas City for a speech tournament,1970. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Who Is Oprah?, book of drawings by first-graders, 2002. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Guest books from Harpo Studios green room, 2004–2010. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk/Service Show Host presented to Oprah Winfrey (1986-1987). On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Vera Wang gown worn by Oprah Winfrey to the Legends Ball, 2005. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Calvin Klein jeans worn by Oprah Winfrey, 1988. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Oprah Winfrey in 2013 by President Barack Obama. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Oprah Winfrey’s high school yearbook, 1971. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Oprah Winfrey with her mother, Vernita Lee (left), and her aunt Christine at her grandmother’s house, ca. 1955. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
Bernice Johnson Reagon and Oprah Winfrey during rehearsals for To Make a Poet Black and Bid Her Sing, ca. 1978. On loan from Harpo, Inc.
One of Oprah Winfrey’s costumes from the 1985 film, The Color Purple, designed by Aggie Guerard Rodgers. On loan from Western Costume Co
