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River Treasure - Book for children by Mebane Holoman Burgwyn

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An Elementary History of America: including the contributions of the N...

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Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

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The Cherry Street House - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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River Treasure - Book for children by Mebane Holoman Burgwyn

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The Cherry Street House - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

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The Book of American Negro Spirituals

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Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

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Julie's Heritage. Book for children by Catherine Marshall

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Hazel - Book for children by Mary White Ovington

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Hazel - Book for children by Mary White Ovington

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Julie's Heritage. Book for children by Catherine Marshall

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An Elementary History of America: including the contributions of the N...

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Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

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An Elementary History of America: including the contributions of the N...

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An Elementary History of America: including the contributions of the N...

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Caricature, A black ball, public domain cartoon image

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Kate. - Public domain monumental decor print Cartes de visite

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Chester, U.S. minister, Liberia. Cartes de visite

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[Half-figure portrait of man wearing bow tie.]

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Hotel Booker T. Washington "Over There"; Colored soldiers leaving an A...

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UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1920

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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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E. C. Morris; [Head of the National Baptist Convention.]

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Children's art classes, Snyder Ave Boys Club

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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Officers and members of the Executive Committee of the National Negro ...

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Not a coon came out the way that he went in

G. W. Gayles, H. N. Jeter, Daniel Jones, J. T. White

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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

'Subject for reconstruction.' Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYP...

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

View of African American workers in a cotton field near Atlanta.

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Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

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Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

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

South Carolina 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

Camp dinner. African Americans, 19th century stereoscope card.

Civil War 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 as... More

Shoe Blacks. [Studio portrait of three young shoe shiners and their cu...

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 assembled it over a period of mo... More

"We'se done all dis's Mornin'." Picking cotton on a Mississippi plant...

Mississippi 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 ... More

Three graces. [Three women in a mule cart.]

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Grinding the axe. Collection of Georgia Sterescope Cards

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

Uncle Ben's cabin. [Elderly couple sitting in front of a cabin.]

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 assembled it over a period of mo... More

Lightwood Boy. [Boy in an oxcart loaded with kindling.]

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 assembled it over a period of mo... More

Picking cotton. [Women picking cotton.] African Americans, 19th centur...

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 assembled it over a period of mo... More

An hour's hunting. [Woman checking a girl's head for lice in front of ...

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Cotton picking no. 3. [Group posing in the field with bale of cotton i...

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Plantation scene. Folks all home. African Americans, 19th century ster...

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 assembled it over a period of mo... More

Picking cotton. African Americans, 19th century stereoscope card.

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Mr. Johnson turn me loose - Public domain sheet music scan

Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

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Happy little nig. [Woman and a small child in a cabin doorway.]

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

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 story of a rising race [microform] : the Negro in revelation, in h...

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

[Family group posing in cotton field.]

North Carolina 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

Honey does you love your man - Public domain sheet music scan

Little Huckleberry - Public domain sheet music scan

Daisy Dixey's Dan - Public domain sheet music scan

The Alabama barbecue - Public domain sheet music scan

Mary Black - Public domain sheet music scan

Menu: Melon

Front cover

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Frank's Famous Restaurant: Oyster and Chop House

Emmanuel Chapel; Bishop Payne Divinity School; Petersburg, Va.; Whittl...

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

Digital ID: 482636. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. May 22, 1936. .Notes: Code: III.A.4. Three generations of African Americans on stoop of brick home with iron rails on steps. .Source: Changing New York / B... More

Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan.

Digital ID: 482603. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. 1935-1938, printed 1935-ca. 1990. .Notes: Massive steel uprights in the center and to the left, with lighter steel tracery and windows above; men stand nea... More

Front cover - images Black History Month

Frederick Douglass - Public domain portrait engraving

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Three prominent educators and authors; Prof. J.W. Gibson; Prof. Booker...

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Negroes leaving their home - A black and white drawing of people on a ...

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Mrs. Mary E. Scott; Composer of the introduction, Chicago.

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Our Colored Heroes. Henry Johnson, Needham Roberts, Honored as Heroes

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Figure 4. - Farmworkers who expect to remain at Camp Ocheebokee for an...

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Left by slave traders to their fate

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Slave traders marching their captives to the coast. Butchering disabl...

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Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's house, in which she wrote "Uncle Tom's Ca...

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Mrs. Mary B. Talbert [recto]. - Public domain portrait print, book by ...

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

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Number of deaths in Kansas City, 1912.

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A black and white photo of a bust of a man Booker T. Washington, portr...

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Torturing American citizens. - Public domain dedication image

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Booker T. Washington; President, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Instit...

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General Grant and a colored guard.

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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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Scrubwoman - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Antonio Maceo; Cuban General. - Public domain portrait print

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Teacher's Tennis Club. - Public domain dedication image

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

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Negro Man - Public domain portrait drawing

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

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