black history month

Negro boatmen at lunch. North Carolina Stereoscope Card.

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

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[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

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

Little Bo-Peep. [Group of men and women seated outside, child peeking ...

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Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers

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Cherubs. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Negro shack. New Jersey. - Public domain architectural plan drawing

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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

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

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

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

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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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Negro shack. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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A cabin home. - images Black History Month

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Miss Hallie Q. Brown. ; Miss Dora E. Johnson.

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Miss Harriet E. Giles; Miss Sophia P. Packard; Founders of Spelman Sem...

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Brigadier-General Franklin A. Denison.

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A Jim-Crow car for Negroes only, Fayetteville, N.C.

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Faculty of C. N. and I. Department.

[Studio portrait of man dressed in suit and coat, holding bowler hat.]

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[Full length portrait of man with bowler hat and cane.]

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Making lamp shades. - images Black History Month

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[Studio portrait of unidentified young man.]

[An unidentified friend of Emily Smith Mallard that she met at Tallade...

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Scene on the boulevard; A view of Grand Boulevard from 35th Street, lo...

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Perry Parker; W,L, Jackson; J. Turner Wall; Adelbert H. Roberts; T. Ar...

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

Children of sharecropper, near West Memphis, Arkansas, 1935.

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Anticipation - Detroit Publishing Company Postcard

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Brotherly Love - Detroit Publishing Company Postcard

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Negro agricultural laborers watching one of their houses burn to the g...

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Vegetable pickers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid, near Homes...

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Shoe shop—making and repairing, book by Booker T. Washington

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Josh Taylor, Negro Foreman who has been on place for fifty three years...

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Negro section of town, Saturday noon Belzoni, Miss., Nov. 1939.

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In the school's sawmill, book by Booker T. Washington

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Negro picnic at Beaufort, South Carolina, July 1939.

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In the machine-shop, book by Booker T. Washington

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Class in language, book by Booker T. Washington

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"The children's house": class in nature study, book by Booker T. Washi...

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15th Amendment, or the Darkey's millenium: 40 acres of land and a mule...

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

Negro shack. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas

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A black and white photo of three children, Three Negro children, Natch...

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Distinguished southerners, grinding cane. [Children chewing sugar cane...

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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

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

Man playing fiddle in front of 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

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

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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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Negro soldiers on the march in France.

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UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1920

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J. W. Hood. - A black and white photo of a man with a beard

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E. K. Love; A popular minister in Savannah, Georgia.

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Library of Gammon Theological Seminary.

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

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H. M. Kingsley; [Church of Good Shepherd, Chicago.]

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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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A black and white photo of a row of houses, Negro housing, Vicksburg, ...

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Household goods of a Negro flood refugee in the temporary infirmary. F...

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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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Negro shack. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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Negro at religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

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

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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 ...

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

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

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

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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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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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