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Negro quarters, Plantation, Fort George Island.

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

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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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Educational and professional - images Black History Month

Front page of Negro World; Volume 8, Number 24, July 31, 1920.

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Col. McKee, grandson passed for white.

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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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Graduating class - 1915. - Public domain dedication image

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

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Shoemaking Department. - Public domain dedication image

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Wm. Edouard Scott; Artist and portrait painter, famous for his "Death ...

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The Binga block; A visit of Mrs. Booker T. Washington to the Associate...

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Choir. - Public domain dedication image

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Waiting for jobs at the Chicago Urban League, 3032 South Wabash Avenue...

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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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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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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.]

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. 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

[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.

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

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."

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

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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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.

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. - 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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