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Upholstering. - images Black History Month

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The Knights of Pythias Temple; Propose $ 1,200.000.00 International Te...

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National University of Music. - Victorian era public domain image

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The Metropolitan Community Club House; Old Folks Home; Phyllis Wheatle...

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[An African American family; Reading books.]

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Brigadier-General Franklin A. Denison.

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Making lamp shades. - images Black History Month

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Scene on the boulevard; A view of Grand Boulevard from 35th Street, lo...

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Perry Parker; W,L, Jackson; J. Turner Wall; Adelbert H. Roberts; T. Ar...

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Dr. Floyd W. Willis; A peep-in at an X-ray examination in the offices ...

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New Hotel Vincennes; On Vincennes Avenue and 36th Street is the New Vi...

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

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Rev. N.D. Shamborguer. - images Black History Month

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African-American longshore men and bales of cotton on the dock.

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Crispus Attucks first martyr for America.

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Ladies whipping girls. - Public domain dedication image

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The Chicago Defender; Interior of the Defender plant, where the world'...

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Wm. Edouard Scott; Artist and portrait painter, famous for his "Death ...

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The Binga block; A visit of Mrs. Booker T. Washington to the Associate...

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Waiting for jobs at the Chicago Urban League, 3032 South Wabash Avenue...

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S.J. Fountain, Undertaker; One of the most modern and progressive of t...

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Harrison Emanuel. - images Black History Month

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Bessie Coleman, aviatrix. - A woman sitting at a table with a sewing m...

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[View of a group of tourists, some African American.]

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Mississippi hoodo-doctors. - images Black History Month

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Kidnapping. - Public domain dedication image

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Your Cab Company; In response to the need for rapid transportation in ...

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A.J. Carey, Jr.; The Chicago Daily News [1st prize check].

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Edward H. Wright, Attorney - Politician.

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The Overton - Hygienic Manufacturing Co.

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UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1920

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Torturing American citizens. - Public domain dedication image

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Colored enterprises and industries; Porter's drug store, 3510 South St...

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Dr. C. Jesse Davis, graduate of Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Te...

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Possession by the spirit; [A Mississippi baptismal service.]

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Possession by the spirit; [A Mississippi baptismal service.]

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[Four African-American boys.] Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYP...

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A typical residential section of the better class at 48th Street and C...

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The officers of the "eighth". - images Black History Month

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The universal therapeutic lamp...invented, manufactured and distribute...

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Powell's garage and oil filling station.

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Binga State Bank founded by Jesse Binga, 1908, as a private bank.

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Two volumes of folk-lore.

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Home of Liberty Life Insurance Company.

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Provident Hospital and Nurse-training School, founded in 1891, in the ...

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A beach scene. - images Black History Month

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

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Will H. Hendrickson; De Koven Thompson.

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Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A. - images Black History Month

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Wm. E. Woodard; Dr. A.G. Fairfax; Dr. Count J. Teffner; Major N. Clark...

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Jos. D. Bibb, editor, "The Chicago Whip".

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St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church.

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[View of a group of tourists, some African American.]

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The Souvenir of Negro Progress, Chicago, 1779 - 1925; Adolph Osby, Tre...

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Colored enterprises and industries; A typical shoemaker from Tuskegee,...

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A crowd at Schorling's baseball park enjoying the national pastime; Ho...

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The Overton building located at 3621 South State Street, might be cons...

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William E. Butler; Giles & Butler, druggists, 3759 S. State Street.

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Mississippi hoodo-doctors. - images Black History Month

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Colonel Otis B. Duncan. - images Black History Month

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Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, Physician, Surgeon.

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Madam Florence Cole-Talbert., Italy

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Prof. William Emanuel. - images Black History Month

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African-American longshore men and bales of cotton on the dock.

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Quinn Chapel, A.M.E. Church. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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A.J. Brookins, inventor; Parts of the Brookins Automatic Train Control...

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Dr. Robert Giles; Giles & Butler, druggists, 3759 S. State Street.

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Dr. Richard S. Smtih; Atty Earl R. Dickerson; Dr. B.R. Bluitt; Dr. Gor...

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Olivet Baptist Church. - images Black History Month

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The Ideal Tea Room at 3344 South Michigan Avenue; Mrs. Mayme Lee Clink...

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Bessie Coleman, aviatrix; Snapped in Berlin, Germany.

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African-American longshore men and bales of cotton on the dock.

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Frank L. Gillespie; Founder of Liberty Life Insurance Co.

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Two African-American youths. West Memphis, Arkansas

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African-American longshore men and bales of cotton on the dock.

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African-American longshore men and bales of cotton on the dock.

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 tourists, some African American.

New York State 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

African-American longshore men and bales of cotton on the dock.

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

Four African-American boys. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1920

African-American longshore men and bales of cotton on the dock.

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 tourists, some African American.]

New York State 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

View of a group of tourists, some African American.

New York State 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

View of a group of tourists, some African American.

New York State 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

Group of tourists, some African American.

New York State 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

African-American longshore men and bales of cotton on the dock.

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Four African-American boys. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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In packingtown; Blacksmithing; Woodworkers.

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“African-American troops advancing toward the front…”

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[Group of tourists, some African American.]

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