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Woman and two men, standing
Woman in evening dress and Rex Ingram

Woman in evening dress and Rex Ingram

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Alvin Childress and Rex Ingram
Chick Turner's Cabaret dancer: Act II
Zola King, eccentric dancer doing her nightly stunt in the cabaret scene
Couples dancing in Chick Turner's Cabaret: Act II

Couples dancing in Chick Turner's Cabaret: Act II

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Edward Fraction as the Mikado and Mabel Walker as Katisha
Waiting to register for music classes under the Federal Music Project

Waiting to register for music classes under the Federal Music Project

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Lunch hour for negro tomato pickers, Homestead, Florida, Jan. 1938.

Lunch hour for negro tomato pickers, Homestead, Florida, Jan. 1938.

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Art class with male subject at the Harlem Community Art Center

Art class with male subject at the Harlem Community Art Center

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Children's piano class, Central Manhattan Music School

Children's piano class, Central Manhattan Music School

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Music classes, keyboards and piano

Music classes, keyboards and piano

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African American chaplain standing at the podium and conducting the religious service on deck of a U. S. Coast Guard vessel, South Pacific

African American chaplain standing at the podium and conducting the re...

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Members of an African American company of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps lined up for review, Liberia

Members of an African American company of the Women's Army Auxiliary C...

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Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida State employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding, Starke, Florida. Dec. 1940

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida State empl...

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Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941.

Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941.

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A prize winner from Harlem in a recent city-wide exhibition of children's art
Arthur Thompson, staff conductor of the Concert Division, Federal Music Project
Edna Thomas as Lady Macbeth
"Toy Parade" children
"Pursuit of Happiness" conductor
Drum students around a table
Music classes, singing - A piece of paper with a drawing on it

Music classes, singing - A piece of paper with a drawing on it

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Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School, experimental garden
Display case at Harlem Art Center with patrons
Functions in the Writers' Project

Functions in the Writers' Project

A document with a drawing of a person holding a camera. A sheet of paper with a drawing of a woman on it. Public domain postcard scan.

War workers visit War Project Board Conservation exhibit
Boys sculpting a horse, Harlem Community Art Center
Remedial reading and arithmetic training, house on chalkboard, St Thomas School

Remedial reading and arithmetic training, house on chalkboard, St Thom...

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Arthur Schomburg, ca. 1896; [A major builder of Afro-Caribbean and African American institutional life.]

Arthur Schomburg, ca. 1896; [A major builder of Afro-Caribbean and Afr...

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Female dancer in flowered dress

Female dancer in flowered dress

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Mary Joseph Marshall Lyons - Public domain portrait photograph

Mary Joseph Marshall Lyons - Public domain portrait photograph

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

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

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The Three Monkeys - An old photo of three monkeys wearing gas masks

The Three Monkeys - An old photo of three monkeys wearing gas masks

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Pushcart vendors at 145th St. and 8th Ave.

Pushcart vendors at 145th St. and 8th Ave.

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The Arbor at Constant Spring Hotel, Jamaica.

The Arbor at Constant Spring Hotel, Jamaica.

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Banana Trees just starting to grow after the bunches have been yielded and the trees cut down, Jamaica.

Banana Trees just starting to grow after the bunches have been yielded...

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The Dam at Bog Walk, furnishing water power for the Kingston Street Railway, Jamaica.

The Dam at Bog Walk, furnishing water power for the Kingston Street Ra...

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A Typical Scene -- Native Women washing in a Roadside Stream, Jamaica.

A Typical Scene -- Native Women washing in a Roadside Stream, Jamaica.

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A straw boss meets a delegation of turpentine workers who are demanding higher pay and better working conditions

A straw boss meets a delegation of turpentine workers who are demandin...

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Native Women Cracking Stone for Jamaica's fine Roads.

Native Women Cracking Stone for Jamaica's fine Roads.

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Minto Cato. Opera advertisement

Minto Cato. Opera advertisement

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A Typical Jamaica Railway Scene. Train about to enter Tunnel over a Mile in Length.

A Typical Jamaica Railway Scene. Train about to enter Tunnel over a Mi...

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Native Jamaican Fishermen with their Nets, in the Caribeean Sea.

Native Jamaican Fishermen with their Nets, in the Caribeean Sea.

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Two men, standing - A couple of men standing next to each other

Two men, standing - A couple of men standing next to each other

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Two soldiers, saluting - A group of men standing next to each other

Two soldiers, saluting - A group of men standing next to each other

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A Field of Tobacco, May Pen, Jamaica.

A Field of Tobacco, May Pen, Jamaica.

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Rex Ingram - A black and white photo of a man in uniform

Rex Ingram - A black and white photo of a man in uniform

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Louis Shaye and three men

Louis Shaye and three men

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A Picturesque Road Scene in Jamaica.

A Picturesque Road Scene in Jamaica.

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Man and woman embracing

Man and woman embracing

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One of the sharecropper's houses with sweet potatoes and cotton on the porch; Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Spring 1939.

One of the sharecropper's houses with sweet potatoes and cotton on the...

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18 months to 5 years
Saint John's Methodist Church Sexton, Peter Williams, 1801
Sugar Hill
Dorothy Jones, Libby Robinson, and Ruth Moore as penguins
Two men standing, one sitting

Two men standing, one sitting

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Man and woman, talking - A close up of a piece of paper on a table

Man and woman, talking - A close up of a piece of paper on a table

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Kneeling man
Frauline Alford and Maurice Ellis: Act I
Maurice Ellis, who portrays Philip Lawrence
Minto Cato sitting - A piece of paper with writing on it

Minto Cato sitting - A piece of paper with writing on it

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Freedom's Journal, June 22, 1827
Lottie Grimke - Public domain portrait print

Lottie Grimke - Public domain portrait print

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Albert Cottrell [Albert Contrell] Cartes de visite

Albert Cottrell [Albert Contrell] Cartes de visite

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The Musical Spillers: also identified as the 10 Musical Spillers: front row (left to right) Willie Lewis, Isabele Taliferro, Calvin Bateman, George Taylor and William Spiller; back row (left to right) Rex Stewart, Seymour Todd, unidentified, Fred Pinder and Margaret ?

The Musical Spillers: also identified as the 10 Musical Spillers: fron...

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Music class with instructor at the board

Music class with instructor at the board

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Art class with female subject

Art class with female subject

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A mural by the children in the free class of the Federal Art Project at the 135th St. YMCA

A mural by the children in the free class of the Federal Art Project a...

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"Pursuit of Happiness" artists
Pupils at the free piano classes conducted by the Federal Music Project's Music Education Division

Pupils at the free piano classes conducted by the Federal Music Projec...

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Mrs. Charles W. David, Jr.; African American widow and her three-year-old son, Neil Adrian receiving the Navy and Marine Corps Medal from Rear Admiral, Stanley V. Parker

Mrs. Charles W. David, Jr.; African American widow and her three-year-...

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To Am Meer from Canzonnetta. "Canzonetta" died Aug. 30th 1897, on verso.

To Am Meer from Canzonnetta. "Canzonetta" died Aug. 30th 1897, on vers...

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Meeting of NYA [National Youth Administration] girls with an instructor at the Good Shepherd Community Center, Chicago, Illinois.

Meeting of NYA [National Youth Administration] girls with an instructo...

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Children's sculpture class, Harlem Community Art Center

Children's sculpture class, Harlem Community Art Center

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Adult piano class under the Federal Music Project
Eitaro Ishigaki: the Civil War during World War I
"The Cycle of a Woman's Life"
Midtown Community Center, percussion students
"Pursuit of Happiness" dirigible
Display case
Art classes, Harlem Community Art Center

Art classes, Harlem Community Art Center

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Women viewing an exhibit at Abyssinian Baptist Church
Oliver Harrington supervises class studying mural work, Hudson Ave Boys' Club
18 months to 5 years - A group of young children holding drums in a classroom

18 months to 5 years - A group of young children holding drums in a cl...

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Albro Lyons, Jr. - Early photography, Public domain image
Ting-A-Ling Bros. Circus: Act II, Scene 3

Ting-A-Ling Bros. Circus: Act II, Scene 3

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Juanita Hall, conducting the Negro Melody Singers

Juanita Hall, conducting the Negro Melody Singers

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Alcan Highway under construction.

Alcan Highway under construction.

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Doe Doe Green and Lester Palmer

Doe Doe Green and Lester Palmer

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Shoeshiners, 135th St. and Lenox Ave.

Shoeshiners, 135th St. and Lenox Ave.

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Latest addition to War Housing Program.

Latest addition to War Housing Program.

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Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver.

Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver.

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Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver.

Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver.

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Alberta Perkins as Sue Simpkins, the center of a justly frightened lot in the Florida swamplands

Alberta Perkins as Sue Simpkins, the center of a justly frightened lot...

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Jacques (Alvin Childress) and Odette (Elana Karam)

Jacques (Alvin Childress) and Odette (Elana Karam)

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Elena Karam  and Rex Ingram in the stage production Haiti

Elena Karam and Rex Ingram in the stage production Haiti

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Rex Ingram, shirtless, with dead man

Rex Ingram, shirtless, with dead man

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The Pulping Machine in a Blue Mountain Coffee Mill, Jamaica.

The Pulping Machine in a Blue Mountain Coffee Mill, Jamaica.

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Pulping coffee in the old way, Jamaica.

Pulping coffee in the old way, Jamaica.

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