african american women, new york public library

And she's a true Blue Triangle girl

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Mrs. Fannie Mason. - A black and white photo of a woman

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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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Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver.

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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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Woman's Aid Community Center, Peoria, Illinois.

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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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Mammy, Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

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Home demonstration club meeting has games and refreshments after discu...

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Southeast Missouri Farms--making a purchase at cooperative store, La F...

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Pounding rice. - A drawing of a woman holding a bucket of rice

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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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Woman sings the Song of Faith; You may bury me in the East; You may bu...

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Scrubwoman - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Rosa J. Young. - Black and White Portrait Photograph

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Mrs. Daisy Renfro. - A black and white photo of a woman

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Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver.

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Carrie S. Otey. - A black and white photo of a woman

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

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Miss M.E. Matlock. Mathematician.

Yellow Rocker - Drawing. Public domain image.

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During the church service at a Negro church in Heard County, Georgia, ...

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Woman carrying bundle on head, Natchez, Mississippi, August 1940.

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It is tied into sheaves, which the Negroes do very skilfully, with a w...

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Purity. - Public domain portrait photograph

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

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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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Ida Wells Barnett. - Public domain scan of print

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Mrs. Sarah J. W. Early - Public domain dedication image

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Sadie Pritchard Hart. - Public domain portrait photograph

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

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Cover illustration of Louisa Picquet, the octoroon

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Mrs. J. Vance Lewis; [Pauline R. Lewis.]

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Washing greens by pump near metal shelters at Okeechobee Migratory Lab...

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Applying the screen on the inside face of door; Demonstration of home ...

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Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plan...

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King and Anderson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississip...

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Near the bridge two negro women are fishing.

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Emily runs away. - A black and white advertisement for a reward

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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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White Rose Industrial Association Working Girls' Home

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Sunday at the Hostess House during World War I

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Mrs. Georgia Gordon Taylor. - Public domain portrait print

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Jennie Jackson. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Minnie Tate. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Mrs. Sarah E.C. Dudley Pettey. Christian Temperance Advocate, Musician...

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

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Clarissa M. Thompson. Novelist, Educator, W.C.T.U. [Woman's Christian ...

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Home again., gelatin silver print

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Board of Mothers, 1922.

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Mary V. Cook, A. B., A. M. - Public domain portrait print

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Mrs. Anna Nemor; A great business woman.

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Miss Ednorah Nahar - Public domain portrait print

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Mrs. Della Irving Hayden - Public domain portrait painting

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

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Carrie L. Griffin, Dayton, Ohio.

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Rachel D. Moore, home management supervisor, giving demonstration in d...

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Negroes waiting outside a rural church while other members of their fa...

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Fanning and pounding rice for household use.

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Negro girls and women employed in a lamp-shade factory

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Harriet Tubman. - Public domain portrait

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Negroes kneeling at graves of their relatives, and being blessed by Pr...

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

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Women often work in the fields.

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Eliza Walker. - Public domain portrait print

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Mrs. Sarah Sheppard. - Public domain portrait print

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Mrs. Lola Y. Downs. - A black and white photo of a woman in glasses

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M. Bell Jackson. Singer. - Public domain portrait print

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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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Workers of many races push plane output

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Josephine Turpin Washington; Educator and writer.

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The district nurse; Talladega College, Alabama.

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Aunt Jonas. She is Drualla Jones, aged ninety-four, and was the slave...

aunt phebe uncle tom and others character studies among the old slaves of the south fifty years after

Miss Hattie K. Green - Public domain dedication image

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Random types. - Public domain portrait print

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Miss Beula V. Garner, Winchester, Tenn.

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An old black and white photo of two women, Sharecroppers, Pulaski Co.,...

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Sheba Court No. 1; A. M. Mrs. G. V. Smith; Louise A. Parras.

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Polly in the Peanut Patch, Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

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'I communicated the intention to my wife.'

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Aunt Gilly"; She has lived to the age of eighty-six honored and respec...

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Mrs. Alic Trocasso, Mrs. Williams sister.

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An ex-slave - Public domain portrait print

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A pottery class during World War I

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Miss Lucy Wilmot Smith - Public domain portrait print

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Mrs. Lucy Ann Henry Cole - Public domain portrait print

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Miss Ida B. Wells (Iola). - Public domain portrait engraving

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Lucy Wilmot Smith. Writer. - Public domain portrait engraving

Women workers at quartermaster depot.

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The Faculty of Alabama Luther College.

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