1,126 African american women Images: NYPL's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Welcome home; All hail to the conquering heroes; When New York's Negro...

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Cheerfully doing the work required; The colored women did willingly an...

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

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

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

Louisiana Lize - Public domain sheet music scan

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

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

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Sleeping Girl - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

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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...

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.

Mammy, Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

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

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

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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Sale in New York

Women Builders, Sadie Iola Daniel

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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

Public domain photograph - Gustav Borgen studio, female portrait, 1910s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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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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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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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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Windsor plantation; [View of African American women working in the cot...

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

Board of Mothers, 1922.

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African American girls holding Y.W.C.A. pennant

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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...

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

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.

Fanning and pounding rice for household use.

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Negro girls and women employed in a lamp-shade factory

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Harriet Tubman. - Public domain portrait

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

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.

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

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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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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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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.,...

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.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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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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

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

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Mrs. Josephine Silone Yates - Public domain dedication image, book by ...

Excess of Colored females, 1900.

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Harriet Tubman. - Public domain portrait print

Two volumes of folk-lore.

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

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Miss Lylbrounetta F. Preston. Vocalist and Pantomimist.

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

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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority., Greece

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Mrs. Sissieretta Jones - Public domain portrait engraving

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

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

Stout Colored women, with cackling hens dangling from their brawny han...

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Old slave quarters on one of the plantations which is now part of La D...

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.

In the field - sowing. - A black and white drawing of a group of peopl...

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'I communicated the intention to my wife.'

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The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at the Cannon [Can...

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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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Fannie Barrier Williams.

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Miss Lucy Wilmot Smith - Public domain portrait print

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

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