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Southeast Missouri Farms--making a purchase at cooperative store, La F...

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Meeting to discuss farm problems. Southeast Missouri Project. May 1940...

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Migrants getting truck ready to leave Belcross, N.C. for Onley, Va., J...

Emergency defense office construction work; Washington, D. C.; Decembe...

Children playing in the Defrees Alley, NE Washington, D.C.; Near Capit...

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Sale in New York

Woman and child on auction block

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Drying the Famous Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaica.

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July 3rd, 1868 - Public domain portrait print

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Dr. Crumwell., Washington, D.C. Cartes de visite

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Rev. B. G. Sayers, 1881. - Public domain portrait print

Federal Theatre Project, Negro Theatre, Sign Painting department, head...

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Midtown Community Center, percussion students

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St John's Music, violin students

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A reception room at Antigua. - Public domain print

Men shaking hands, Brazil. - Public domain portrait print

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Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence. Baptized in Brooklyn….b...

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Negro boy sitting by the stove on a cold in the strawberry picking sea...

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Gwendolyn Bennett, Sara West, Louise Jefferson, Augusta Savage, Eleano...

Dr. James McCune Smith - Public domain portrait print

Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School, experimental garden

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Looking towards Manhattanville. Depicting West 125th Street in backgro...

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Portrait of Léon-Gontran Damas as a youth, about age nine, holding a b...

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Crowd outside the Lafayette Theatre, in Harlem, at the opening of "Mac...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Rev. Mrs. J. H. Vigal of Buffalo, N.Y., arm raised, holding Bible.

WACs expediting soldiers' mail at camp postoffice.

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The Parish Church, Kingston, Jamaica.

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Constant Spring Hotel, near Kingston, Jamaica, one of the Finest Hotel...

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Wise Shoppers Start Home; The family starts home; To stretch their poi...

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African American women in industry

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[A boy and a young man sitting on a cow-driven cart in muddy street.]

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

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Portrait of abolitionist Sojourner Truth, sitting with yarn and knitti...

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Luxuriantly Tropical, -- A Valley of Tree Ferns, Jamaica.

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Frauline Alford in Mom Robbins' Restaurant: Act I

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Blind street musicians, West Memphis, Arkansas, Sept. 1935.

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Washing greens by pump near metal shelters at Okeechobee Migratory Lab...

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At a meeting of Negro FSA borrowers in a church near Woodville, Greene...

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In front of Pilgrim Baptist Church on Easter Sunday, Southside of Chic...

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The movies are popular in the Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Apri...

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Applying the screen on the inside face of door; Demonstration of home ...

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Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plan...

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Saturday afternoon, Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi Delta, Octob...

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A black and white photo of three people on a sidewalk, Port Gibson, Mi...

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King and Anderson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississip...

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Chitterling, fish and sugar cane on street in Negro Section, Clarksdal...

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Resting the mules which get too hot when the cotton is high in mid-sum...

The Negro tenants and neighbors eating dinner after the white men have...

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In the Everglades needlework factory, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Rehabilitation client and wife with one day's tomato pick off coast of...

View of Negro life in the Negro section, Newport News, Va., Sept. 1936...

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Temple Court off D Street and Delaware, SW, Washington, D. C.

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Omar, mining town, West Virginia, 1935.

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Emily runs away. - A black and white advertisement for a reward

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The Still and Retorts for making Jamaica Rum in the Liquor Department ...

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Estelle Hemsley and Alberta Perkins discussing the fate of Philip Lawr...

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[Profile portrait of unidentifed man.] Cartes de visite

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Great Barrington High School, Class of 1884

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A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas cotton pickers - ...

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View of Lenox Avenue, Harlem, at 135th Street, showing businesses, ped...

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Portrait of businessman Casper Holstein, used in Opportunity magazine ...

O.J. Thomas congratulates the oldest students in the district

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Harlem YMCA Music and Music History Class conducted by instructors fro...

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Three students in an art class, Harlem Community Art Center

Central Manhattan Music Center, horn players

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Harlem newspaper stand, 1939

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Display case - A couple of women standing next to a white board

Civilian Conservation Corps boys putting up a fence, Greene County, Ge...

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[Portrait of young woman with velvet lapels and ribbon bow around neck...

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A black and white photo of a group of children, Children of miners, Ke...

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Flatbush art students showing examples of their work

Domestic servants waiting for street car on way early in the morning. ...

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Girl and boy sculpting, Harlem Art Center

Children's piano classes

William Henry Lane "Master Juba"

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Captain Mary L. Petty, Chief Nurse, holding a glass bottle and showing...

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University Singers of New Orleans; In aid of Colored Orphans' Home of ...

'Uncle Harmon Vann, 104 years old, Huntsville, Ala., 1898.

Portrait of Harlem, New York, businessman, nightclub owner and black b...

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Three women - A black and white photo of three women in dresses

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View of Lenox Avenue, Harlem, at 135th Street, showing businesses, ped...

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The Natural Bridge at Riversdale, Jamaica.

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Man kissing a woman's hand

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The Bridge at May Pen, Jamaica.

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Rex Ingram, shirtless, with gun, and crowd

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Man raising sword - A black and white photo of a group of people

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Cotton on porch of sharecropper's home, Maria plantation, Arkansas, Oc...

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Sharecropper on Sunday, Little Rock, Ark., October 1935.

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4th and 5th in Flint River school, Ga. demonstrate a health moving pic...

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The cement well cap is lowered down the cleared well with a two purcha...

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Company stores and offices and clinic of Delta Pine Company, Cotton Pl...

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

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Removing the seed from cotton gin on Hopson Plantation; Clarksdale, Mi...

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Southeast Missouri Farms. Son of a sharecropper dressing in a combinat...

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Southeast Missouri Farms. Family of Farm Security Administration clien...

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Evicted sharecroppers along highway #60, New Madrid County, Missouri. ...

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Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Caroli...

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Cotton hoers loading at Memphis for the day's work in Arkansas; June, ...

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African American day laborers standing near and on the back of farm tr...

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