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Studio portrait of [Patrick Reason].

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Alcan Highway under construction.

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[Studio portrait of a man.] - Public domain portrait print

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[Woman wearing dress covered with lace across the bodice.]

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Miss Perry, colored albina, Barnum Show

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[Standing woman, wearing dress with bustle, holding purse at side and ...

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Woman and two men, standing

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A Typical Ford on a Blue Mountain Pony Path, Jamaica.

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Three men standing, two women sitting

Public domain photograph of theatrical production, cabaret, musical, performance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bar scene - A black and white photo of a group of people

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Constance Daniel and Jerome Robinson; Farm Security Administration [FS...

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

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

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro school children studying near Southeast Missouri Farms, August 1...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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 ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

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 ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kate. - Public domain monumental decor print Cartes de visite

Public domain reproduction of still life painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

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 ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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...

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.

Negroes leaving their home - A black and white drawing of people on a ...

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

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Harlem Tenement in Summer

133rd St. near 5th Ave.

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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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Whitfield Hall, the Inn at the foot of Blue Mountain Peak, Jamaica.

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Maurice Ellis, who portrays Philip Lawrence

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The last truckload of cotton hoers from Memphis bound for the Wilson C...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Picking cotton, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, September 1938.

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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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On All Saints' Day at New Roads, La. Negroes assembled in the church f...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro couple at grave of relative; All Saint's Day in cemetery at New ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Allen Plantation operated by Natchitoches Farmstead Association, a coo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

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.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Memphis, Tennessee, Beale Street, October 1939.

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Drummer in orchestra in Memphis juke joint, Tennessee.

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Shacks inhabited by Negroes along highway between Charleston and Gaule...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Native Jamaican School Children reciting in their Little Rough School ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Studio portrait of unidentified man wearing double-breasted jacket.]

S. A. Payne (Bishop Payne). - Public domain portrait print

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Studio portrait of unidentifed young man, seated on prop hay bale.]

A man laying on the ground with his feet up. A man laying on a rock with his head on the ground. Public domain postcard scan.

Studio portrait of John C. Napier

Kim & Jennie to Laura H. Fredille.

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Children's piano classes

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Sousaphone player - A black and white photo of a man playing a tuba

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Uptown Art Lab - Public domain monumental decor print

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Photography exhibit - Public domain print

Mothers Rhythym Band, Council House

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Music classes, singing - An old photo of a woman teaching a class of c...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Amateur orchestra, organized and taught by the Federal Music Project's...

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African American Charity Adams, First Officer in the Women's Army Auxi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chandler Leeper. - Public domain print

Single tubular well ready to pour well slab on ground; Safe well demon...

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Wife and children of a Negro tenant farmer, Tupelo, Miss., Aug. 1935.

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pastor of the Pentecostal Church, Chicago, Illinois.

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.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Florida migrants getting aboard the truck which will take them from Be...

Front row: Zell Ingram, Pemberton West, Augusta Savage, Robert Pious, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unidentified standing figures: woman, her folded arms leaning on back...

Public domain photograph - 19th-century male studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Unidentified standing figures: woman, her folded arms leaning on back ...

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Marcus Garvey, Eminent Scholar - Public domain portrait print

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Navy honors Negro hero.

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Dry Cleaning

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[Studio portrait of woman wearing hat, and velvet coat.]

Public domain photo of portrait art print, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Studio portrait of woman, hand on books spread on table.]

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver.

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John Smith, Minister to Liberia.

Native Jamaican Thatched Hut among the Cocoanut Palms and Banana Trees...

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Government hotel for Negro women war workers; A group of young war wor...

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[Studio portrait of man holding box labelled 'Confectionery.'.]

[The Chimney sweep.] - images Black History Month

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Rex Ingram, shirtless - Egypt

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Kingston and Harbor from St. Catherine's Peak (5000 feet,) Jamaica.

Picryl description: Public domain view of a mountain range, mountainous landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantat...

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.

Negro flood refugees lined up and waiting for food in Forrest City, Ar...

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Ida B. Wells Housing Project for Negroes, Chicago, Illinois, April 194...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Home demonstration club meeting has games and refreshments after discu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.