black history month

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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Harrison Emanuel. - images Black History Month

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

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Negro church. South Carolina - images Black History Month

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Happy Mitchell and his Boys - Detroit Publishing Company Postcard

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Migratory workers fishing to eat, Belle Glade, Florida, January 1939.

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Negro laborers sitting around in front of a fire on Saturday night in ...

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In the agricultural laboratory, book by Booker T. Washington

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Old Black Joe, Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

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Hog killing on Milton Puryeur place; He is a Negro owner of five acres...

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Cotton Pickers in the Field - Detroit Publishing Company Postcard

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

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Women and children picking cotton. African Americans, 19th century ste...

New Jersey 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 a... More

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

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

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[Three-quarter length portrait of unidentifed man.]

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[Dr. Davis, who was educated in Aberdeen, Scotland.]

"A Native Product" - postcard mailed to Frederick Hoeing, 1916

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Library of Livingstone College.

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Samuel R. Ward. - A black and white photo of a man in a suit

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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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W. H. Miles. - A black and white photo of a man with a beard

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R. A. Carter. - A black and white photo of a man in a suit

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[Studio portrait of young woman wearing chain necklace.]

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Main building, Virginia Union University.

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View in Negro quarter. 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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Detail of Negro house. Tupelo, Mississippi

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Mule cart. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Future rulers of Florida. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Log cabin. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Picking cotton. 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

[Four African-American boys.] 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

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

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

Picking cotton. 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

Negro shack. New Jersey. - images Black History Month

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

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A group of children sitting on top of a wooden bench, Three Negro chil...

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

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Ætna Spring. New York Sterecope Card.

New York 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 ass... More

Negro Head near Purgatory. Rhode Island. 19th century stereoscope card...

Rhode Island 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

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

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

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

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Uncle Lem out for a drive. [Man in an oxcart.]

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A side show at Chatham Fair. [Musical performers on a small outdoor st...

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

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Fellow Citizens. [Studio portrait of three young chimney sweeps.]

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[Studio portrait of three young chimney sweeps.]

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

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[Picking cotton, group posing in the field.]

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Cotton is king - A plantation scene, Georgia.

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

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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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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

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A typical residential section of the better class at 48th Street and C...

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The officers of the "eighth". - images Black History Month

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

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Negro traders' advertisements. - images Black History Month

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Sewing Department. - Public domain dedication image

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The universal therapeutic lamp...invented, manufactured and distribute...

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Negro of Bornu, african travels

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Statue of Frederick Douglass. - images Black History Month

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Powell's garage and oil filling station.

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Photographs from Frank Teeter, Durango, Colorado:Caves; Caves.

Negro church. South Carolina - images Black History Month

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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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Mr. Ed. Downes, FSA director in Greene, Georgia, speaking on "Food for...

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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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Repairing tire on road near Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississip...

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Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to b...

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Nigger in the Woodpile, Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

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Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and grading tobacco...

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Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1...

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Spring plowing in cut-over region south of Marshall, Texas, April 1939...

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Students framing the roof of a large building, book by Booker T. Washi...

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Teach the child something about real country life, book by Booker T. W...

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The paint shop, book by Booker T. Washington

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A sewing-class at Snow Hill, book by Booker T. Washington

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

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Town Pump. Familiar scene in [?], Ky.

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

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

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