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W.E.B Du Bois's mother, Mary Burghardt Du Bois

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

'I communicated the intention to my wife.'

Public domain scan of portrait print, engraving, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

'I married a very efficient and ... well-taught girl.'

'When she found that it was to be taken from her she was filled with ... dismay.'

Miss Valetta Linden Winslow. Elocutionist.

Public domain photo of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. Ida Gray. - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas cotton pickers - early morning.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Booker T. Washington.

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Black Mammy. Tempsie Staton, North Carolina.

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Neighborhood service by a student.

Maytime in Camp during World War I

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Welcome home; All hail to the conquering heroes; When New York's Negro soldiers marched amid the cheering crowd, Harlem was mad with joy over the return of its own.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har More

Cheerfully doing the work required; The colored women did willingly and efficiently their part in helping win the war.

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Negro nurses march in Great Red Cross Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Home again. Oh, how joyful! Back from France, and what a grand reception awaited them! Conquering heroes on the battlefield and the warmth and enthusiasm over their homecoming are beyond words to describe.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har More

One of the wounded [a member of the famous 369th Colored Infantry] and his mother.

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The Pyramid Club., Greece

Mrs. Booker T. Washington - [Mrs. Margurite J. Murray Washington.]

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A lesson in bed making in the housekeeping suite, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College, Tallahassee, Fla.

An Episcopal Bishop confirming African American Lieutenants Rosemary Vincent and Hallie M. Brown and an unidentified soldier, as they kneel before him

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Star pupil, 82 years old, reading her lesson in adult class, Gee's Bend, Alabama, May 1939.

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

African American women, members of the 32nd and 33rd Company's Women's Army Auxiliary Corps basketball team, playing a game of basketball at Fort Huachuca

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Members of an African American company of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps lined up for review, Liberia

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mrs. Charles W. David, Jr.; African American widow and her three-year-old son, Neil Adrian receiving the Navy and Marine Corps Medal from Rear Admiral, Stanley V. Parker

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Two African American Lieutenants of the Women's Army Corps sitting at a table and working on jigsaw puzzles while three others assist and look on

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at the Cannon [Canning] Company of Bridgeville, Delaware.

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mrs. Gus Wright, Farm Security Administration client with her canned goods, Oakland community, Greene County, Georgia, November 1941.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Annie Albrittan, who does washing in her home in Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, November 1941.

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

SPARS Olivia Hooker, of Columbus, Ohio, and Aileen Anita Cooke, of Los Angeles, California, aboard the dry-land ship "USS Neversail," during their training at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Station, Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York, 1945

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

SPAR Olivia J. Hooker, of Columbus, Ohio, at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Station, Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York, 1945

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

African American Charity Adams, First Officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, standing in uniform and pointing to a poster that reads, "Women! Answer America's Call, Serve in the W.A.A.C."

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Members of an all-African American company walking in rows during an infantry drill at the First Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Training Center

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

African American Private Hannah Wills developing an x-ray film in the x-ray laboratory at Post Hospital, Camp Breckinridge

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Portrait of woman seated next to tasselled curtain.]

Public domain photo of portrait art print, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Studio portrait of young woman with thin ribbon around neck.]

Public domain photograph of musician playing music, musical instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. Carrie V. Still Anderson, Philadelphia, Pa.

Class in Domestic Science, Summer High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teaching, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Colored Yeowomen; Employees of Navy Department, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har More

Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Miss., June 1937.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negroes kneeling at graves of their relatives, and being blessed by Priest with Holy Water, New Roads, La.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Members of the congregation of the "store front" Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1941.

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Kitchen of apartment occupied by Negroes, South Side of Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Outside water supply; Washington, D.C.; September 1935.

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Purity. - Public domain portrait photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image - 19th-century female portrait, aristocracy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mister your room rent's due - Public domain sheet music scan

She's a thoroughbred - Public domain sheet music scan

Ginger Lou (my dusky queen of jet from Honolulu)

Hannah! or I want my Hannah - Public domain sheet music scan

How I lubs dat gal ob mine - Public domain sheet music scan

Got your habits on - Public domain sheet music scan

Hello ma Ragtime gal - Public domain sheet music scan

I've been dreaming of you baby - Public domain sheet music scan

It's a hot combination - Public domain sheet music scan

Is yo' goin' to frow yo' baby down

The lady with the auburn hair - Public domain sheet music scan

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Ma baby girl - Public domain sheet music scan

Louisiana Lize - Public domain sheet music scan

Ma love divine, ma Caroline - Public domain sheet music scan

The Queen of Charcoal Alley - Public domain sheet music scan

No more will I ever be your baby

Snap-shot Sal - Public domain sheet music scan

There aint no use to keep on hanging around - Ragtime music

Topsy's in town - Public domain sheet music scan

Spend your money while you live, or I spect to be a long time dead

You ain't the man I thought you was

You'se honey to yo' mammy just de same

Wow, wow, wow, I ain't got no friends or family now

Miss Hannah from Savannah - Public domain sheet music scan

Coming from the well, Wormsloe, the DeRenne Plantation, Isle of Hope.

Georgia stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse More

The Nursery, Atlanta Exposition. Atlanta, GA. Sterescope Card.

Georgia stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse More

Forsyth Park, Savannah, Ga. [View of an African-American woman with a baby carriage.]

Picryl description: Public domain painting of a park, trees, picnic, outdoor activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Forsyth Park, Savannah, Ga. [View of an African-American with a baby carriage.]

Georgia stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse More

[Group of African American women and men on the porch of a house.]

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Lake Scene.] New Hampshire in 19th century. Stereoscope card.

New Hampshire stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker wh More

Mount Chocorua, North Conway. New Hampshire in 19th century. Stereoscope card.

New Hampshire stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker wh More

Aiken Water works. 19th century stereoscope card. South Carolina.

South Carolina stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker w More