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[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...

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

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.

Louisiana 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

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.

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

Negro boatmen at lunch. North Carolina Stereoscope Card.

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

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Picking cotton. [Woman resting in the field.]

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

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

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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...

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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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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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John Gassett. - Public domain portrait print

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[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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