black history month

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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UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1920

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Kitchen of apartment occupied by Negroes, South Side of Chicago, Illin...

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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

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

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

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Domestic Science class. - Public domain dedication image

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[Studio portrait of young woman.]

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The Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature, Books by and about the N...

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Picking cotton, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, September 1938.

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Envy - Detroit Publishing Company Postcard

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During the church service at a Negro church in Heard County, Georgia, ...

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Wood-turning machinery, book by Booker T. Washington

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Class in physiology, book by Booker T. Washington

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Log cabin. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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

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

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

Plantation Scene. Picking cotton. [Woman resting in the field.]

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

[Three-quarter length portrait of unidentifed man.]

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J. W. Loguen; [A bishop of the Zionites and an abolitionist.]

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Sampson White. - Public domain portrait engraving

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A black and white photo of a group of children, Negro schoolchildren, ...

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Sergeant Wm. H. Carney. - Public domain portrait print

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Part of a Negro tenant family, on a farm near Greensboro, Alabama, May...

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Cutting sugar-cane on the school's farm, book by Booker T. Washington

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At a meeting of Negro Farm Security Administration borrowers in a chur...

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Members of the Moors, a Negro religious group of Chicago, Illinois.

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Two Negro supervisors and FSA [Farm Security Administration]borrower t...

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

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Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas

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A Negro conjure-doctor. - images Black History Month

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There are few playgrounds in Harlem. Negro children must play on the s...

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[Studio portrait of man with top hat and cane.]

Studio portrait of Knoxville (Tenn.) College Glee Club.

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

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[Studio portrait of two young women, heads touching.]

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[Studio portrait of a young couple, he seated, she with hand on his sh...

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Negro tenant farmer, Lee Co., Miss. Aug. 1935

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Saturday afternoon in a negro beer and juke joint, Clarksdale, Mississ...

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A group of people standing outside of a store, Saturday afternoon - Sa...

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A black and white photo of a group of people, Negro school children. A...

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Fifteenth Amendment - a good specimen. 19th century stereoscope card. ...

Sallie. - Public domain portrait drawing Cartes de visite

Bertha Henry. - Public domain portrait print

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John Gloucester; [The founder of the first African Presbyterian Church...

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[Studio portrait of young woman with thin ribbon around neck.]

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[Oval quarter-length portrait of unidentified young woman, her bodice ...

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[Studio portrait of unidentified woman dressed in a rouched jacket and...

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[Studio portrait of woman wearing glasses and cross-shaped earrings.]

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[Portrait of young woman wearing patterned dress, with bow at neck.]

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Negro sharecropper and son who will be resettled, Transylvania Project...

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Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas

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Ploughing rice. [Plowing rice.] African Americans, 19th century stereo...

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

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

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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

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aughter of Dalton McLeod, Negro rehabilitation client. Fuquay Springs,...

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Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers

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Mississippi hoodo-doctors. - images Black History Month

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

American Negro Labor Congress - images Black History Month

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Dr. Ulysses Grant Dailey, Physician, Surgeon.

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Harlem, Mecca of the new Negro. [cover]

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Watermelon Jake. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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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.

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

Bishop Crowther. - Public domain portrait print

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New Orleans Police Department. Bertha Farnsworth. Alias: Bertha Rawli...

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

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Negro home. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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Crispus Attucks first martyr for America.

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[Studio portrait of a man dressed in jacket, vest, tie and striped pan...

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A Negro doll factory in Harlem which provides colored dolls for Negro ...

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

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Choir. - Public domain dedication image

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

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Uniformed man seated, on the mantlepiece is his cap, embroidered with ...

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

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Old Black Joe, Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

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Cotton Pickers in the Field - Detroit Publishing Company Postcard

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Negro shack. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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

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L. K. Williams; [Pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago.]

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

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Talman Street, between Jay and Bridge street, Brooklyn.

Digital ID: 482667. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. May 22, 1936. .Notes: African American woman sits at street edge with two children, empty lots on either side of street, old 2 and 3 story clapboard house... More

Studio portrait of [Patrick Reason].

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

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Miss Perry, colored albina, Barnum Show

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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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[Standing woman, wearing dress with bustle, holding purse at side and ...

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

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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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Exterior, window display on Black History Month

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Negro school children studying near Southeast Missouri Farms, August 1...

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Class in mechanical drawing - Drawing. Public domain image., book by B...

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

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Cooking for the family. African Americans, 19th century stereoscope ca...

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