african americans

[Studio portrait of unidentified seated young man, his left arm restin...

Portrait of Sea Island School teacher Miss Harriet W. Murray, with stu...

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Your friend, Jno. H. Smith. - Public domain portrait print

Mrs. Margaret Washington, Tuskegee, Ala.

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The body of Lieutenant Jimmy Europe who died suddenly this week is her...

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John Jasper; A conservative Virginia preacher.

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Four portraits of Negro women : Two public school teachers

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The Crisis : A monthly magazine

Blackface show, singers

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Photograph of Lieutenant Clarence Samuels of the United States Coast G...

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The design and execution of a hooked rug, as taught by the Art Teachin...

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The Negro Travelers' Green Book: 1957

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. waving to the crowd from the steps of the ...

[Portrait of unidentified young woman in plaid dress and hat.]

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C.C.P. - Public domain portrait print Cartes de visite

Isaac and Rosa, emancipated slave children

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Emancipation. - Public domain portrait photograph Cartes de visite

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Flora Stewart, Londonberry, N. H. Aged 117 years. Taken Nov. 5, 1867.

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Corner of room of living quarters provided for Negro strawberry picker...

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Harlem Art Center, boys with tools

Room set up and remedial activities, girls' class, P.S. 94

Provincetown Playhouse, 133 MacDougal Street, Manhattan.

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Harlem Community Art Center: students in metal craft class, 290 Lenox ...

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W. C. Chase - Public domain portrait engraving

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B. K. Bruce - A black and white photo of a man in a suit

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P. H. A. Braxton - Public domain portrait engraving

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Dodges Auction, Jacksonville, Fla. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection...

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An Hour's search; or, Aunt Venus hunting for Florida fleas.

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Log cabin. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Native cane grinders in sunny Florida.

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Waiting for your team at the cotton gin, Florida.

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Uncle Jack and his home. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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A rice raft, South Carolina. 19th century stereoscope card. South Caro...

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Colored convalescent soldiers resting after a march, at Aiken's Landin...

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Let brotherly love prevail. [Young chimney sweeps leaning on a fence.]

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Cotton picking no. 1. [Woman carrying a bale of cotton on her head.]

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Cherubs. African Americans, 19th century stereoscope card.

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[Group lined up in front of a row of shacks.]

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[Plowing rice.] African Americans, 19th century stereoscope card.

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[Plantation scene.] Folks all home. African Americans, 19th century st...

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Happy little Bob and his fiddle. [Man playing fiddle in front of cabi...

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

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

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Uncle Red. [Man in an oxcart.] - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...

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Jack and Abby. African Americans, 19th century stereoscope card.

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[Man in a top hat in front of a shack with several boys with books.]

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Souvenir of Fall River Line. Shivery family papers

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Souvenir of Fall River Line. Shivery family papers

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Souvenir of Fall River Line. Shivery family papers

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Souvenir of Fall River Line. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. 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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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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The Negro in medicine

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Green Book: 1962: Guide for Travel & Vacations

John King, chimney sweep, shown with gear while singing out his call.

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Simplicity, Alabama, U.S.A. [Group gathered on a porch, in town.]

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Take me back, babe - Ragtime music

There's other races like their chicken 'sides the coon

Frank's Famous Restaurant: Oyster and Chop House

Talman Street, between Jay and Bridge street, Brooklyn.

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Probably the best Negro home in Athens.

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Frederick Douglass. - Public domain portrait photograph

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Negro National Guardsmen ; South Carolina, 1890.

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Lt. Col. A. Allensworth, United States Army [retired]; Major John R. L...

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Phillis Wheatley. - Public domain portrait engraving

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TheThe South Carolina legislature of 1873 passing an appropriation bil...

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Enterprising business men; The Executive Committee of the National Neg...

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Studio portrait of [Patrick Reason].

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Statistics of population. General statistics of the Negro population ...

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Sheppard Shay. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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An ex-slave - Public domain portrait painting

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Colored professional students and graduates in 1896-97.

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This World Cannot Exist Half Slave And Half Free – Buy War Bonds

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Dienstmeid Willemstad. - A black and white photo of a woman in a dress

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

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A Harlem "Back to Africa" announcement, Negro Club, New York

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H. C. Smith - Public domain portrait print

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Hon. Judge George L. Ruffin - Public domain portrait engraving

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Auditorium - Commencement Day. - Public domain dedication image

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Fishing in the Park - A black and white drawing of people sitting at a...

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar. - Public domain print

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Practice teaching; Prospective teachers "Learn to do by doing."

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[Studio portrait of a man.] - Public domain portrait print

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Two volumes of folk-lore.

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Archdeacon Pollard, N.C.

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Eugene T. Hinson. - Public domain portrait print

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[Woman wearing dress covered with lace across the bodice.]

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Robert S. Abbott; Home of the Chicago Defender; The world's greatest w...

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Miss Perry, colored albina, Barnum Show

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Rev. S. Kerr, Georgia. - Public domain portrait print

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Sand Yard - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Certificate of freedom in ten years for woman named Dinah, signed by M...

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Latest News - A black and white drawing of a woman and a cat

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

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Home of Liberty Life Insurance Company.

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Rocking Chair Blues - A black and white drawing of a man sitting on a ...

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