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Old Negro [former slave] with horn with which slaves were called; Near...

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

Street in Negro section, Charleston, W. Va., Jan.-Feb., 1939.

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

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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Carlton Moss (standing) addressing armed forces servicemen and women a...

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

To be sold, on board the ship Bance Island, ... negroes, just arrived ...

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

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Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson in a scene from the motion picture The Ja...

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The Famous Cotton Club presents Dan Healy's Cotton Club on Parade with...

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Charles Lucas and Iris Hall in another scene from The Homesteader

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Crowds outside the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem at the opening of "Macb...

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Aids recovery of wounded soldiers

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Army nurses standing at attention in front of their barracks and being...

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[Studio portrait of woman wearing hat and gloves and dress with bustle...

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The Jamaican Market Women, en route in early morning to Kingston Marke...

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[Studio portrait of man with top hat and cane.]

Woman with raised arms - A black and white photo of a man cutting anot...

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Bananas as they grow, Jamaica

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[Studio portrait of unidentified seated woman wearing check dress.]

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Studio portrait of Knoxville (Tenn.) College Glee Club.

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[Studio portrait of man, hand on waist.]

[Studio portrait of two young women, heads touching.]

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[Studio portrait of a young couple, he seated, she with hand on his sh...

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Native Boys in a fine Fresh Water Swimming Hole beside the Bamboo Tree...

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Parker Watkins and others. Opera advertisement

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[Portrait of older woman, standing, holding bonnet.]

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Zola King in Chick Turner's Cabaret: Act II

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Undertaker before funeral services, Southside, Chicago, Illinois.

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Former slave quarters now used as milk house on farm near Bardstown, K...

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Negro tenant farmer, Lee Co., Miss. Aug. 1935

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Saturday afternoon in a negro beer and juke joint, Clarksdale, Mississ...

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The ushers of a negro church have their photograph taken to be sold in...

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Skimming the boiling cane juice to make sorghum syrup at cane mill nea...

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 at Manning, Clarendon County, S...

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

A group of men standing next to each other, Religious meeting in Nashv...

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

A group of people standing outside of a store, Saturday afternoon - Sa...

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Slum kitchen; Washington, D.C.; October 1937.

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Negro bus-boy dishwashers, Investment Pharmacy, Washington, D.C., July...

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[Three-quarter length portrait of unidentifed man.]

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Portrait of Judge William J. Whipper

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Fisk University Class of 1888 - Public domain historic place print

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[Dr. Davis, who was educated in Aberdeen, Scotland.]

Female artist at Harlem YMCA - Public domain

Crowds outside the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem at the opening of "Macb...

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"Pursuit of Happiness" door

Public domain photograph of hospital laboratory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at the Cannon [Can...

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

War workers visit War Project Board Conservation exhibit

Portrait of Walter F. White, Executive Secretary of the NAACP and auth...

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Shirley Chisholm speaking - Public domain portrait print

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Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant - Public domain portrait print

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[Studio portrait of young woman wearing chain necklace.]

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Children of family on relief playing, Chicago, Illinois.

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A group of men standing in front of a store, Scene at Smithland, Kentu...

Educational Unit - A black and white photo of three men sitting at a t...

Scene from Oscar Micheaux's movie "Within Our Gates" featuring unident...

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Rhythym Bands - from 18 months to 10 years

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Jackie Robinson and Louise Beavers in a scene from the motion picture ...

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

Types africains. - Concours de sourires, circa 1923

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage French postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Maritcha Lyons and her younger sister Pauline

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Colored emigrants seeking homes in the North

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View of crowd dancing to the music of "Red" Sounders and his band, at ...

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Paratrooper from the 101st Airborne Brigade applying mouth-to-mouth re...

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135th St. near 5th Ave.

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The Mountains from Constant Spring Hotel, Jamaica.

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

Statue of Frederick Douglass. - images Black History Month

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Women workers at quartermaster depot.

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Where Jamaica Rum is made, -- Mixing Cistern, Pump, and Vats in the Li...

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Part of a Negro tenant family, on a farm near Greensboro, Alabama, May...

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

Sugar Hill - A black and white photo of a city street

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At a meeting of Negro Farm Security Administration borrowers in a chur...

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Mr. Ed. Downes, FSA director in Greene, Georgia, speaking on "Food for...

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Members of the Moors, a Negro religious group of Chicago, Illinois.

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Stable hand and trainer eating picnic lunch before the Shelby County H...

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Two Negro supervisors and FSA [Farm Security Administration]borrower t...

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[An African American man with a shovel.]

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

Repairing tire on road near Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississip...

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old black and white photo of a woman, Sharecropper's wife. Missouri...

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.

Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and grading tobacco...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working on the county maps at the colored County Land Use Planning Com...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1...

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

Spring plowing in cut-over region south of Marshall, Texas, April 1939...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

House in the area being taken over by the army; The family will be mov...

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

Hot lunches are served on the job by colored vendors; Soups, beans, an...

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