schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division, new york public library

Mexican and negro cotton pickers inside plantation store, Knowlton Pla...

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Bayou Bourbeaux Plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeaux Farmstead Assoc...

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Daughter of Cube Walker, Negro TP Client Belzoni, Miss. Delta, bringin...

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Spectators and witnesses on second day of Superior Court during trial ...

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Digging out a cemetery to be moved from the Santee-Cooper basin, Near ...

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Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkan...

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Negro staff, Newport News Homesteads, Va.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This family moved out of an army area in Caroline County, that had to ...

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Migratory agricultural workers on board the "Princess Anne" going to t...

The mode of flogging Slaves, as described in Bickells "West Indies as ...

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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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Journalist, abolitionist and civil rights advocate Philip A. Bell

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[Half-figure portrait of man wearing bow tie.]

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UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1920

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Lobby card for Oscar Micheaux's 1921 motion picture "The Gunsaulus Mys...

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Two African American Lieutenants of the Women's Army Corps sitting at ...

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SPAR Olivia J. Hooker, of Columbus, Ohio, at the U.S. Coast Guard Trai...

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Children's art classes, Snyder Ave Boys Club

Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Miss., June 1937.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kitchen of apartment occupied by Negroes, South Side of Chicago, Illin...

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A black and white photo of a bust of a man Booker T. Washington, portr...

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Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver.

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Gus Smith as Forty-Four and Alberta Perkins as Sue Simpkins

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[Studio portrait of young woman.]

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A General View of the Mandeville Market, one of the Chief Country Mark...

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Newcastle from the Road to Kingston, Jamaica.

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Maurice Ellis, who portrays Philip Lawrence

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During the church service at a Negro church in Heard County, Georgia, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Street scene in the Negro district on Easter morning, Chicago, Illinoi...

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Children of Negroes dressed in Sunday best for ceremonies - memorial s...

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Wagon load of cotton coming out of the field in the evening, Mileston ...

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Post office inside plantation store, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Nove...

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Woman carrying bundle on head, Natchez, Mississippi, August 1940.

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Pauline Clyburn, rehabilitation client, and her children stringing tob...

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Drummer in orchestra in Memphis juke joint, Tennessee.

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Swimming in fountain across from Union Station; Washington, D.C.; Sept...

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[Studio portrait of unidentified woman holding handkerchief.]

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W.E.B Du Bois's mother, Mary Burghardt Du Bois

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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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F. J. Grimké, a preacher of the New Democracy

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Students writing - A group of women sitting around a table

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"The Cycle of a Woman's Life"

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"Pursuit of Happiness" sculptor

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"Pursuit of Happiness" sculptor and doctor

Art class, male student

Fife and drum competition, side-on, Staten Island Armory

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Music classes, tambourines and piano

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Art classes, Harlem Community Art Center

Colonial Playground, Federal Dance Orchestra No. 1

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Functions in the Writers' Project

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Mrs. Gus Wright, Farm Security Administration client with her canned g...

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Mrs. Annie Albrittan, who does washing in her home in Woodville, Green...

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Members of an all-African American company walking in rows during an i...

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Studio portrait of Frederick Douglass Cartes de visite

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Room set up and remedial activities, P.S. 94

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Chicago school children buy $263,148.83 in war bonds.

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An unidentified African American physician, assisted by a nurse, treat...

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Dancers performing the Cakewalk

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Plato's office staff for Wake and Midway Halls; Samuel Plato, contract...

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Joshua Cockburn - Public domain portrait print

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[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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Negro steel worker. - A black and white photo of a man holding a bucke...

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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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Alvin Childress as Jacques

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

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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...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Project family picking peas in their garden, Flint River Farms, Ga. Ma...

Ben Turner and family in their wagon with mule team. Flint River Farms...

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Art training is sponsored by the Good Shepherd Community Center. Chica...

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A black and white photo of a woman and a child, Natchitoches, Louisian...

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John Dyson, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, playing the a...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Harry Handy canning corn with aid of pressure cooker. Saint Mary'...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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Selling fish on Saturday afternoon, Lexington, Holmes County, Mississi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Part of cotton gin with wagonloads of cotton waiting in background at ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children of Dalton MC Leod. Fuquay Springs, North Carolina. Sept. 17, ...

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Negro picnic at Beaufort, South Carolina, July 1939.

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Unloading tobacco from trailer into baskets according to the grade, th...

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Doe Doe Green as Chet Jackson

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John Gassett. - Public domain portrait print

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Poster warning Blacks in Boston - kidnappers.

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The family of Mr. Leroy Dunn, chopping cotton in a rented field near W...

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Eitaro Ishigaki and his assistants, Chikanichi Yamasaki and Wolf Ubogi...

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A cello student of the Adult Education Classes under the Federal Music...

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"Pursuit of Happiness" doctors

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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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E. Lewis. Sculptor - Public domain portrait print

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

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Portrait of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, bibliophile.

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"Blind Beggars". Public domain reproduction.

Oliver Harrington supervises class studying mural work, Hudson Ave Boy...

Living room scene - A black and white photo of a group of people

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"Huge hand span makes ball handling easy"