african americans

The crow quadrilles. Piano forte by John H. Hewitt / N. Currier's lith...

Music cover with eight vignettes of caricatures of blacks. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1436.

St. Crispin's celebrated vegetable paste blacking

Print shows six circular labels, possibly intended for the top of a round container of blacking paste, showing a man shielding his eyes as he reaches for a boot, freshly blacked with "St. Crispin's celebrated v... More

The political quadrille. Music by Dred Scott

A general parody on the 1860 presidential contest, highlighting the impact of the Dred Scott decision on the race. That controversial decision, handed down in 1857 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, ruled that ne... More

Camp Brightwood, D.C.--Contrabands in 2nd R.I. Camp

Capt. B.S. Brown (left); Lt. John P. Shaw, Co. F 2nd Regt. Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry (center); and Lt. Fry (right) with African American men and boy. Title transcribed from item. Purchase; William A. Glad... More

[Unidentified African American soldier in Union infantry sergeant's un...

Case: Leather; floral design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collect... More

The Louisiana murders - gathering the dead and wounded The disputed pr...

Top illustration shows Negroes pulling a man on a luge(?), and two men lying in field. Bottom illustration shows jackal and eagle disputing the possession of a dead antelope. 2 illustrations in: Harper's weekly... More

Negro double song & dance

F9879 U.S. Copyright Office Created by the Courier Co. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

Hyde & Behman's Operatic Spectacular Minstrels under the personal supe...

P17856 U.S. Copyright Office "Composed entirely of artists of merit. Original in every detail. Perfectly equipped & organized with the intention of presenting minstrelsy as an art ... Reserved seats at usual pl... More

Machine division in Tuskegee Institute

Photograph shows young African American men learning trades by working on various machines in the Machine Division at the Tuskegee Institute. #133.

Street-types of Chicago: 2 newsboys (African American & White) with cl...

Photo by Krausz, Chicago. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Portrait photograph of Gaines, Bishop Mrs, C.M.Bell Studio

Photograph shows Julia A. Gaines, wife of Bishop Wesley John Gaines (1840-1912) of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Title is name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on... More

Portrait photograph of Harrod, Mintie, C.M.Bell Studio

Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date from photographer's logbook. Notation on neg. sleeve: 6. Gift; American Genet... More

Piccaninnie dance down in Dixie

Photograph shows African American children dancing to fiddler outside a wood cabin.

The new Sterling did it. Sterling ranges

Advertisement for Sterling cast-iron ranges, showing two women, one African American, proudly displaying an enormous pyramid of loaves of bread and the iron stove that made it possible.

[Young African American woman, half-length portrait, facing front, smi...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 3. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Re... More

[Mamie Westmorland, school teacher; half-length portrait, with left ha...

Attribution to Askew and title identification information from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 79. B&w copy prin... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly le...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 1. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Re... More

[Negro city tenements, Atlanta, Georgia]

Title identification information from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 300. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are... More

[African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 337. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Company G, 9th U.S. volunteer infantry, posed on tier

Black soldiers. 84768 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by L. Leland Barton, Washington, D.C.

Kindergarten at Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, Augusta, Georg...

African American children in a classroom. No. 19. Exhibited: Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900), images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for the "America... More

[African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, seated with le...

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

Bob Manchester's Cracker Jacks everything new.

37101 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: Our policy - originality. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 3701. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection... More

[Young African American man, half-length portrait, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 91. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

Looking for a job

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J, Supplement (1901-1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 08983. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Thomas R. Hawkins, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]

Detail of Medal of Honor men, Lot 11931, plate 69. (LC-USZ62-91683). Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Surrogate available as microfilm in P&P Reading Room.

Shines

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09011. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Happy as the day is long

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, seated on steps, faci...

Reference copy (modern print) in BIOG FILE - Carver, George Washington. Forms part of: Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J694-159

[History class, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative: LC-J694-35 is broken.

Huntington Hall, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Adjusting the noose

Photograph shows two African American men standing on gallows; one man is bound with noose around neck and the other stands next to him holding flowers; they are surrounded by four men, at least two of them caucasian.

[Two young African American women, probably somewhere in Virginia]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf.

John Barrett & Count Von Bernstorff

Photo shows diplomat John Barrett (1866-1938), Director General of the Pan American Union and German Ambassador Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff (1862-1939) at the Diplomatic Corps Reception at the Pan American B... More

Crowd gathering in street to watch the lynching of Jesse Washington, W...

Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records.

Unidentified African American soldier in uniform and overseas cap with...

Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: Orton and Pat Begner, Rochester, New York, via Civil War Collectables, Kendall, New York, February 2017.

[Farm wagon, driven by an African American man, Reed Camp, South Carol...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "Farm Wagon, Reed Camp, S.C.; 2; Dec. 1934." Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk m... More

[Farm wagon, driven by an African American man, Reed Camp, South Carol...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "2. Farm wagon, Reed Camp, SC Dec 1934." Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk music... More

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Mississippi photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War...

Negro youngsters in doorway of alley dwelling. Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro boy near Vicksburg, Mississippi

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

John W. Fields, Age 89

Negro in Greenville, Mississippi

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Ellen Polk, Age 83

Born in slavery slave narratives from the federal writers project 1936 1938

Negroes of the slum area. Washington, D.C.

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro field hand getting ready to go to town on a Saturday afternoon. ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Interior of the old Pettway home, now inhabited by John Miller, forema...

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

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

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

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

Negro revival meeting, La Forge, Missouri

Negro musicians playing accordion and washboard in front of store, nea...

House in Negro section. Baltimore, Maryland

Detail of clothes of children of Negro sharecropper who will be resett...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...

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

Negro migratory workers by a "juke joint" (?), Belle Glade, Fla

Photograph shows signs advertise Atlantic Ale and Beer, Royal Crown Cola and Nehi. 11671-12. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is availa... More

Five children of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, studying their lesson...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Family of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, eating breakfast consisting ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Veazy, Greene County, Georgia. The one-teacher Negro school, south of ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Veazy, Greene County, Georgia. The one-teacher Negro school, south of ...

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

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

Photo shows Regal Theater and Savoy Ballroom in the Southside neighborhood. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washingt... More

Kitchen in crowded Negro apartment. Chicago, Illinois

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Negroes making purchases from white proprietor of street clothing stal...

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

Singing "Trying To Make a Hundred, Ninety Nine and a Half Won't Do" du...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Veazy, Greene County, Georgia. The one-teacher Negro school in Veazy, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of the children of Mr. Strickland, Negro FSA (Farm Security Admini...

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

Temple Court off D Street and Delaware Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. N...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Young people outside of Negro high school, Black Belt, Chicago, Illino...

Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Negroes in front of their home, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Crowd outside of fashionable Negr...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Mosquito Crossing, Greene County, Georgia. The new school for Negro ch...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Greensboro (vicinity), Greene County, Georgia. Boyd Jones during reces...

Title and other information from file print. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available ... More

First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of feder...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mr. Langston Hughes, Negro poet and playwright. Chicago, Illinois

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

Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. feder...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Washington (southwest section), D.C. Two Negro boys shooting marbles i...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Newsboy selling the Chicago Defender, a leading Neg...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro tank crews. Member of an all-Negro tank ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Newport News, Virginia. Mrs. Ethel R. Stephens, organizer of the Consu...

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

New York, New York. Richard Wright, Negro poet

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Negroes in front of their home near the capitol

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the U.S. Capitol building,... More

[Photograph of several Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing in Ramitel...

Photograph shows several Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing. First row: 1. Hiram E. Mann, Cleveland, OH, Class 44-F; 2. Unidentified; 3. Newman C. Golden, Cincinnati, OH, 44-G; 4. Bertram W. Wilson, Jr., Broo... More

[Tuskegee airmen exiting the parachute room, Ramitelli, Italy, March 1...

Photograph shows Tuskegee airmen leaving the arachute room. Left to right: Richard S. "Rip" Harder, Brooklyn, NY, Class 44-B; unidentified airman; Thurston L. Gaines, Jr., Freeport, NY, Class 44-G; Newman C. Go... More

[Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946]

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (L... More

[Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat(?), New York, N.Y., c...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

[Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

[New York City Mayor Robert Wagner greeting the teenagers who integrat...

Pictured, front row, left to right: Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Carlotta Walls, Mayor Wagner, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray; back row, left to right: Terrance Roberts, Ernest Green, Melba Pattilo, Jeffe... More

[Mrs. Constance Motley with Rev. Martin Luther King and William Kunstl...

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C. / [MST].

Photograph shows a crowd of African Americans behind a storm fence with police carrying a woman on the other side. Title from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR... More

[Sammy Davis, Jr., waving to people as he walks past marshals at the L...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10361, frame 30.

[Marchers seen from the side, during the March on Washington, 1963]

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10347, frame 31.

[Martin Luther King with leaders at the March on Washington, 1963]

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10364, frame 25.

[Vivian Malone entering Foster Auditorium to register for classes at t...

Vivian Malone, one of the first African Americans to attend the university, walks through a crowd that includes photographers, National Guard members, and Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. U.S.... More

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C. / [WKL].

Photograph shows a procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Maga... More

Part of crowd in Harlem chants and taunts police on Lenox Ave. last ni...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Bayard Rustin (center) speaking with (left to right) Carolyn Carter, ...

NYWT&S staff photo by Ed Ford. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Seated left to right: Bayard Rustin, Andrew Young, Rep. William Fitts...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

Freedom train to Alabama. We accept contributions for Selma victims

Photograph shows a sign on an easel placed in a bus or train station announcing the "Freedom Train to Alabama", also noting that one can make "contributions" for the victims of the civil rights march from Selma... More

People is what the NAACP is about

Public domain photograph of book cover featuring a portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

He was the beginning, Lil Bobby James Hutton, born April 21, 1950, mur...