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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.]

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

Frances E.W. Harper. Temperance Lecturer and Authoress.

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Phillis Wheatley - Public domain portrait engraving

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I'm always glad to see you when you'll buy

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

The Queen of Charcoal Alley - Public domain sheet music scan

Hannah! or I want my Hannah - 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

Louisiana Lize - Public domain sheet music scan

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

Louisiana Lize - Public domain sheet music scan

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

Louisiana Lize - Public domain sheet music scan

The Queen of Charcoal Alley - Public domain sheet music scan

Louisiana Lize - Public domain sheet music scan

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

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

Louisiana Lize - Public domain sheet music scan

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

I'm always glad to see you when you'll buy

White Rose Home: its work and need

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Madam C.J. Walker (driving) with (left to right) her niece Anjetta Breedlove; Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company factory forelady (manager) Alice Kelly; and Walker Company bookkeeper Lucy Flint.

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Madam C.J. Walker (driving) with (left to right) her niece Anjetta Breedlove; Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company factory forelady (manager) Alice Kelly; and Walker Company bookkeeper Lucy Flint.

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The work of colored women, title page

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The story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, title page

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Lorraine Hansberry funeral program, [cover]

A woman exchanged for a ram and sheep.

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Am I not a woman and a sister? - Public domain dedication image

Ella Sheppard. - Public domain portrait engraving

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[Unidentified standing figures: woman, her folded arms leaning on back of chair, and young man, probably her son, left hand on book.]

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Noted Negro women, title page, title page

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Frances E. W. Harper - Public domain portrait print

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Aunt Aggy. - An illustration of a woman standing at a desk

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Aunt Gilly"; She has lived to the age of eighty-six honored and respected by all who know her, and greatly beloved by her nurslings.

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Mrs. Annie Walker Blackwell. - Public domain portrait print

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Front cover

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White Rose Industrial Association Working Girls' Home

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May B. Belcher; Josephine Puiyou; Eva Del Vakea Bowels; Mrs. Maria A. Wilder; Mary E. Jackson

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My old black mammy! - An old photo of a woman standing in front of a house

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Mrs. Connie Curl-Maxwell.

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Women often work in the fields.

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Well," replied mammy, "de worl' is callin' my Miss Nancy Lady Astor now, but she warn't no lady 'twell she ma'ied de lord frum de tuther side - She wuz jes' plain Nannie Langhorne!"

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Sophronia Hull, Catawba, N.C

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Lorraine Hansberry funeral program, list of Honorary Pallbearers

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Eliza Walker. - Public domain portrait print

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Mrs. Blanche V.H. Brooks. Able Pioneer Teacher, Able Writer, President W.C.T.U. [Woman's Christian Temperance Union].

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Hallie Quinn Brown - Public domain dedication image

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A typical "Mammy". - An old picture of a woman standing on a porch

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Aunt Judy and the painter. - Public domain monumental decor print

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Miss Susan B. Cook, Superintendent and founder; [Children's Temporary Home; 2115 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.]

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Mrs. F. E. W. Harper, Author and Lecturer, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Girls' Domestic Science Class; [Denton Industrial School]; J. C. Briscoe, teacher.

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Aunt Cindy. - An old black and white photo of a woman

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Mrs. Alic Trocasso, Mrs. Williams sister.

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Capable office staff; Bookkeeping department; National Benefit Association, Washington, D.C.

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General organization, Y.W.C.A. during World War I

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Irene McCoy Gaines. - A black and white photo of a woman

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Working for up building the community.

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Front cover of Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, July 1926

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Captain Mary L. Petty, Chief Nurse, holding a glass bottle and showing it to 2nd Lieutenant Olive Bishop, who is writing on a small pad of paper, Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

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Plato's office staff for Wake and Midway Halls; Samuel Plato, contractor, and part of his office staff at their field headquarters for the construction of Wake and Midway Halls, now being completed for 1,000 Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C.; Left to right [clockwise]: Zelda S. Wilson, Mildred Dunn, Wilhelmena Barnett, Mrs. Elnora Plato (wife of the contractor and his chief accountant), Mr. Plato and Frances Purdy, March 1943.

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"... But I did not want to go, and jump'd out of the window. "

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A cabin home. - images Black History Month

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Rev. Mrs. J. H. Vigal of Buffalo, N.Y., arm raised, holding Bible.

Mrs. Della Irving Hayden. Eminent Educator.

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Mrs. N. F. Mossell - Public domain portrait print

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Mazie D. Smith. - Public domain dedication image

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She was never anything but tender with the others."

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Miss Florence Mitchell, Secretary

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A happy old mammy; She has just been paid for her week's picking, more than enough for her simple wants; [Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museums.]

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Mrs. Sarah Hannah Sheppard; In whose heart was born "Swing Low, Swing Chariot" and "Before I'd Be a Slave, I'd Be Buried in My Grave."

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Sunday at the Hostess House during World War I

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Elizabeth Gadsen-Steward; [The author's bride.]

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Mrs. J. Snowden Porter.

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Four American Moslem Ladies: Right to left: Mrs. Thomas (Sister Khairat), Mrs. Watts (Sister Zeineb), Mrs. Robinson (Sister Ahmadia), Mrs. Clark (Sister Ayesha), Vol. 2, no. 1, p. 165

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WACs expediting soldiers' mail at camp postoffice.

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Flora Batson Bergen - Public domain portrait engraving

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Mrs. Josephine A. Silone Yates. Scientist, Educator, Writer, known as Mrs. R.K. Potter.

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Beaten biscuit. - Public domain portrait print

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Miss Maude E. Williams; The author's reviewer, Chicago.

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Mrs. Georgia Gordon Taylor. - Public domain portrait print

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Mrs. Ella Sheppard Moore; Who, as a babe in arms, was rushed to a watery grave, when her mother was stopped by a fellow slave and told a great prophecy.

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Army nurses standing at attention in front of their barracks and being inspected by staff officers, Army nurse training center, England.

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