african americans

[Studio portrait of unidentified man wearing double-breasted jacket.]

S. A. Payne (Bishop Payne). - Public domain portrait print

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[Studio portrait of unidentifed young man, seated on prop hay bale.]

A man laying on the ground with his feet up. A man laying on a rock with his head on the ground. Public domain postcard scan.

Studio portrait of John C. Napier

Kim & Jennie to Laura H. Fredille.

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Read Kizzy's loyality - A newspaper advertiser with a woman holding a ...

Miss Ida B. Wells, [Frontispiece]

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Big Negro Excursion [January 3, 1925, advertisement in the Negro World...

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St. Philip's P.E. Church - Public domain dedication image

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Children's piano classes

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Music classes, singing - An old photo of a woman teaching a class of c...

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

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Black Heritage from the Schomburg Collection

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Chandler Leeper. - Public domain print

Single tubular well ready to pour well slab on ground; Safe well demon...

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Jay Street, No. 115, Brooklyn. - images Black History Month

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Room set up and remedial activities, P.S. 94

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Harlem Community Art Center: students in sculpture class, 290 Lenox Av...

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Harlem Community Art Center; VI, 290 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.

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S. R. Lowery - Public domain scenic engraving

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James Poindexter - Public domain portrait engraving

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D. A. Gaddie - Public domain portrait print

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James H. Trotter, J. C. Corbin, G. W. Dupee, Allen Allensworth

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T. T. Fortune - Public domain portrait print

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M. R. DeLaney - A black and white photo of a man in uniform

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Negro getting a haircut in front of church which houses flood refugees...

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I. M. Burgan - Public domain portrait engraving

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Dance De cake-walk queen - Public domain musical sheets

Mule cart. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Cooks, chambermaids, nurses and one hostler, of Gen. Geo. Washington.

Florida 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

Productions of St. Augustine, Florida. Florida Sterescope Cards Collec...

Florida 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

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

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Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

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[People in coach with African American coachmen, in front of house.]

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[People in coach with African American coachman.]

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Rapid transit in southern Mississippi. [Large group of children on an ...

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"We'se done all dis's Mornin'." [Girls with basket of cotton in the fi...

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Uncle Bob at parade [rest?]. [Man and children resting around an oxcar...

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Upland rice. [Hoeing rice.] African Americans, 19th century stereoscop...

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[Studio portait of young chimney sweeps.]

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Jack and Abby Landlord, aged one hundred and one hundred and ten years...

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

Hoeing rice. African Americans, 19th century stereoscope card.

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Chimney Sweeps. [Studio portrait of two young chimney sweeps.]

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Going to market. [Man on an oxcart.]

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15th Amendment bringing his crop to town. [Man on an oxcart loaded wit...

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A black ball - Engraving, Public domain image

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The Tiger's Roar: An Independent Voice of the Student Body, Volume XXX...

My Filipino baby - Ragtime music - love song

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

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The College Journal, No. 14. Shivery family papers

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My Filipino baby - Ragtime music - love song

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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The Negro in medicine

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The Negro in medicine

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Portrait of Phillis Wheatley - Public domain portrait engraving

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Educational and professional - images Black History Month

View of a cakewalk procession of couples at a ball, circa late 1800s

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He cert'ny was good to me - Public domain sheet music scan

My Hannah lady, whose black baby is you

Ma black tulip - Public domain sheet music scan

Priscilla - Public domain sheet music scan

Merry Christmas 10H 32: Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 10th Cavalry, Christma...

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

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The late Dr. Joseph Chas. Price, founder of Livingstone College, Educa...

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Religious dancing of the Blacks, termed "Shouting".

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

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Showing the crowding together of Negro homes in the heart of Athens; S...

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Census of free and slave Colored.

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Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

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Afro-Americans with more than national reputation.

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Choir marching to Chapel; Saint Paul School; [Lawrenceville, Virginia....

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Portrait of Mrs. Sarah J.S. Garnet

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William Still. - Public domain dedication image

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A model Negro school; Inspired by Tuskegee, different, indeed, from th...

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Afro-Americans with more than national reputation.

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The Devil's garden. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Sleeping Girl - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Segregation in Detroit - A black and white photo of a window with a si...

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Phillis Wheatley. - Public domain portrait engraving

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In the Park - A drawing of a man sitting on a bench

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Central Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; Robt. Jones; W. C. Young; R...

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Parker Model Home. Made by Tuskegee Students.

Luxury and comfort; An elegantly appointed barber shop owned and patro...

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

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[Studio portrait of woman wearing hat, and velvet coat.]

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

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The Shield, Emblems, and Motto of Liberia as established in 1847

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Paul Reed; Will Cato; Negroes lynched by being burned alive at Statesb...

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

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Evolution of the Negro home; Residence of a Negro working woman, Atlan...

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Subway Bootblack - A black and white drawing of a man in a room

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