493 African american women, African americans Images: NYPL's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Army nurses standing at attention in front of their barracks and being...

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An ex-slave - Public domain portrait painting

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Two volumes of folk-lore.

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The wife of Rev. J. W. Early; Lectured and taught school through the s...

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The Fourteenth Biennial Convention of the National Associatation of Co...

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Girl with Blue Hair - Public domain portrait print

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

Phillis Wheatley - Public domain portrait engraving

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Captain Mary L. Petty, Chief Nurse, holding a glass bottle and showing...

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Sojourner Truth. - Public domain portrait drawing

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Women in the industry during World War I

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Full-blood types: a brilliant high school teacher.

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Portrait, portrait - Public domain portrait print

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The Fourteenth Biennial Convention of the National Associatation of Co...

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Gladys - Public domain portrait print

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Miss Jennie Johnson; Evangelist; Dresden, Ont.

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Alleyne - Public domain portrait print

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

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Mrs. Booker T. Washington.

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Members of an all-African American company walking in rows during an i...

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Plato's office staff for Wake and Midway Halls; Samuel Plato, contract...

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Graduates from missionary training school, Shaw University, Raleigh, N...

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Miss Hallie Q. Brown, M. S., Elocutionist.

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Colored Sisters of the Holy Family; The Holy Family Convent at New Orl...

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Making lamp shades. - images Black History Month

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Woman in the Kitchen - A painting of a woman sitting at a table

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Mrs. Martha Ann Ricks. Liberian Heroine.

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Seated woman with hat at Studio

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Two African American Lieutenants of the Women's Army Corps sitting at ...

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SPAR Olivia J. Hooker, of Columbus, Ohio, at the U.S. Coast Guard Trai...

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Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Miss., June 1937.

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Kitchen of apartment occupied by Negroes, South Side of Chicago, Illin...

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Scrubwoman - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Mrs. Frankie Hegamin; Chicago; One who has given all life to the uplif...

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Yellow Rocker - Drawing. Public domain image.

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African American members of the Women's Army Corps standing in the sno...

Woman with Arm on Head - Public domain print

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African American Charity Adams, First Officer in the Women's Army Auxi...

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[Unidentified standing figures: woman, her folded arms leaning on back...

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Sleeping Girl - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Phillis Wheatley. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Mulatto girl student; At Clark University, Atlanta; At the completion ...

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Georgia E. Lee Patton, M.D. Physician, and Surgeon, a Meharry [Meharry...

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[Studio portrait of woman, hand on books spread on table.]

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Government hotel for Negro women war workers; A group of young war wor...

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Sojourner Truth; [Courtesy of the "Crisis."]

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Random types. - Public domain portrait print

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Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantat...

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Women Builders, Sadie Iola Daniel

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

Women often work in the fields.

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[Woman in hat decorated with flowers, and striped blouse.]

Women's House of Detention - Drawing. Public domain image.

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The district nurse; Talladega College, Alabama.

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Random types. - Public domain portrait print

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Meum et Tuum; [The case of Mahala].

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African American women, members of the 32nd and 33rd Company's Women's...

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African American Private Hannah Wills developing an x-ray film in the ...

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[Portrait of woman seated next to tasselled curtain.]

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Madam C.J. Walker (driving) with (left to right) her niece Anjetta Bre...

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Excess of Colored females, 1900.

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Mrs. Mary E. Minnard; A great church worker at Springfield, Ill.

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Barred - A black and white drawing of a man and a dog

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Hotel" in Pahokee, Lake Okeechobee, Florida, living quarters for migra...

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SPARS Olivia Hooker, of Columbus, Ohio, and Aileen Anita Cooke, of Los...

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

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

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White Rose Industrial Association Working Girls' Home

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Advanced cooking class; Saint Augustine's School; [Raleigh, North Caro...

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The new choir. - A black and white photo of a group of people

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Home again., gelatin silver print

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Board of Mothers, 1922.

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Mrs. Anna Nemor; A great business woman.

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Jim McBride and Emily Bridges; Two old members at Rosebud, Ala.

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Negro girls and women employed in a lamp-shade factory

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

WACs expediting soldiers' mail at camp postoffice.

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Old Tales

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Wise Shoppers Start Home; The family starts home; To stretch their poi...

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African American women in industry

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An artistic and useful vocation; A class receiving instructions in the...

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An ex-slave - Public domain portrait print

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Industrial school of Mrs. Ida E. Gladden, Greenville, S.C.

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Mrs. Lucy Ann Henry Cole - Public domain portrait print

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The Faculty of Alabama Luther College.

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Negro Girl - Public domain portrait drawing

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Just a song at twilight.

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A Theatrical Company. - A group of women standing next to each other

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

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

Mrs. Annie Walker Blackwell. - Public domain portrait print

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Capable office staff; Bookkeeping department; National Benefit Associa...

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She was never anything but tender with the others."

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Sarah F. Bundy; President of Mothers Board.

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Oldest living members. - A black and white photo of a group of people

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Miss Georgie Bell; The team she rode in while in St. Augustine, Fla.; ...

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First Class of Alabama Luther College, March 1, 1923.

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