black history month

[Advertisement in the Negro World, January 17, 1925, announcing the l...

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The fighting U.S.A. Marine Brigade in Belleau wood; The soldier applyi...

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Negro Band of the 814th Infantry leaving the Celtic after her arrival.

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James Varick; [The first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Chu...

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H. M. Turner. - A black and white photo of a man

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Christopher Rush; [A man who had figured in the organization of the Zi...

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William J. Simmons. - Public domain portrait print

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W. N. DeBerry; [Pastor of a Congregational Church in Springfield, Mass...

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Paine College, Augusta, Ga. - A black and white photo of a large house

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Aspects of Negro Life: An Idyll of the Deep South.

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Portraits of men, Brazil. - Public domain portrait print

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Negro tenant farmer who grew strawberries on shares near Hammond, Loui...

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M. W. Clair; [Bishop of the M. E. Church.]

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Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan.

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Negro houses, south end of town, Vicksburg, Mississippi

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Negroes in bunkhouse in strawberry fields near Hammond, Louisiana; Not...

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An old black and white photo of a house, Negro housing, Vicksburg, Mis...

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Negro quarters, Plantation, Fort George Island, Florida.

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These are the sisters. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Negro home. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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Negro shack. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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Negro shack. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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Children of Negro sharecropper at pump. Near West Memphis, Arkansas.

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Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas

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Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas

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

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Utica Citizens' Corps, Camp Greenman, Saratoga Springs, 1869.

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

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North Carolina. Negro boatmen at lunch.

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

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Family group sitting in front of a wooden shack.

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[Man playing fiddle in front of cabin.]

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

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

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

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

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Happy little Bob. [Man playing fiddle in front of cabin.]

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[Women and children picking cotton.] African Americans, 19th century s...

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

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

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Uncle Abe's schoolhouse and scholars. [Man in a top hat in front of a ...

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Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

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[Group of elderly people on porch.]

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Souvenir of Fall River Line. Shivery family papers

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

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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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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Educational and professional - images Black History Month

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

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Douglass, the orator. - images Black History Month

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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 woman wearing hat and gloves and dress with bustle...

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

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

[Studio portrait of unidentified seated woman wearing check dress.]

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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 man, hand on waist.]

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

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[Portrait of older woman, standing, holding bonnet.]

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

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At work in the school's brick-yard, book by Booker T. Washington

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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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Tiding of Comfort and Joy, Negro

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The ushers of a negro church have their photograph taken to be sold in...

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

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Negro bus-boy dishwashers, Investment Pharmacy, Washington, D.C., July...

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Negro shack. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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

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

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

[Studio portrait of unidentified woman holding handkerchief.]

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[Full length portrait of unidentified man.]

[Studio portrait of a young man wearing tie and stick pin.]

[Portrait of seated woman wearing a headwrap.]

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United States colored labor troops boarding a transport; An American N...

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This is the wreath presented by the Ford-Darney Orchestra in memory of...

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Alexander Walters. - Public domain portrait print

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A black and white photo of a row of houses, New Orleans Negro street. ...

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Negro houses, south end of town, Vicksburg, Mississippi

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A black and white photo of a boy wearing a hat, Negro boy near Vicksbu...

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A black and white photo of a man plowing a field with two horses, Near...

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

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'Love in a cottage.' Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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

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Waiting for the photographer. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYP...

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Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

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Plantation negro houses. 19th century Louisiana stereoscope card.

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Negro shack. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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Negro shack. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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A woman standing in the doorway of a shack, Daughter of Negro sharecro...

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Lake St., Negro procession celebrating "Emancipation proclamation."

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A cabin door on Sunday morning.

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Negro boatmen at lunch. North Carolina Stereoscope Card.

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