african americans

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America's salvag...

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

Daytona Beach, Florida. Scene in the Negro section

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a house in the woods. Office of War Informa...

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

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of emp...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Negro workers

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.

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethu...

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

Orange, Texas. Negro boys whose parents are both employed, modeling in...

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

Luncheon for Liberian president's party. His Excellency, Edwin Barclay...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

A black and white photo of a man with a hose. Office of War Informatio...

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

School. African American kids.. Farm Security Administartion 1930s pub...

To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist. Transfer; Un... More

All-American news. 1945-04, no. 4

All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, a... More

[Members of the 332nd Fighter Group attending a briefing in Ramitelli,...

Photograph shows members of the 332nd, from left to right: Robert W. Williams, Ottumwa, IA, Class 44-E; (leather cap) William H. Holloman, III, St. Louis, Mo., Class 44-?; (cloth cap) Ronald W. Reeves, Washingt... More

[Edward C. Gleed and two unidentifiedTuskegee airmen, Ramitelli, Italy...

Photograph shows Tuskegee airman Edward C. Gleed, Lawrence, KS, Class 42-K, with two unidentified crewmen adjusting an external seventy-five gallon drop takn on the wing of a P-5/D, "Creamer's Dream." Ramitelli... More

[Tuskegee airmen Marcellus G. Smith and Roscoe C. Brown, Ramitelli, It...

Photograph shows left to right, Marcellus G. Smith, Louisville, Kentucky, and Roscoe C. Brown, New York, NY Class 44-C. P-SC#11, "Tootsie," in background was assigned to Lowell Steward. Ramitelli, Italy, March ... More

[An African American woman and several children sitting on a bed in an...

Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain scan - children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American mother and her four children in their tenement appar...

Image from Look photograph assignment: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 34 of a contact sheet. LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Hulan Jack holding a photograph of Joseph Pulitzer, while Carl Ackerm...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three African American women at a polling place, one looking at a book...

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from: "The Negro vote: Republican gamble that failed?", U.S. News and World Report, Nov. 15, 1957, p. 39-40. Contact sheet available for re... More

[Mrs. Constance Motley at a news conference with Medgar Evers and Jack...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Two African American men sitting on stoop, Charleston, South Carolina...

No. 6211-163-22. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 651 or PR 13 CN 1971:R04 ; previously assigned to LOT 13270, no. 9

[Aerial view of marchers, from the Lincoln Monument to the Washington ...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10352, frame 10.

[Marchers, signs, and tent 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. 10344, frame 12.

[Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval ...

Photograph shows (left to right): Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor); Floyd McKissick (CORE); Mathew Ahmann (National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice); Whitney Young (National Urban Leage); Martin L... More

[Young men in NAACP caps in front of Union Station, during the March o...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10346, frame 29.

[African American and white supporters of the Mississippi Freedom Demo...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-DD, frame 8. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City, ... More

Put your vote where your mouth is ... Register so you can vote

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The confrontation, Selma, Alabama / McMahon.

Drawing shows clergy and nuns facing police officers in a confrontation with the Sheriff's posse. Container list: McMahon. Title on container list: Clergy facing police officers, Selma, Alabama, 1965 (Confront... More

[African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs "W...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 13478, frame 17. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demonstrators outside the White Ho... More

Dessie Woods is strong, strong, strong and black people will be free!

"European tour, August-September, 1979: Kobenhavn, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Paris, Amsterdam, London." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U Street, next to Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The theater, located on "Washington's Black Broadway," ... More

Intricate Art Deco bas relief in Anacostia neighborhood, Washington, D...

Photo shows Public Works Administration frieze: "The Progress of the Negro Race," by Daniel Olney, located in the courtyard of the Langston Terrace Dwellings near Benning Road, N.E., Kingman Park neighborhood, ... More

Doug Owens poses for photos at store counter.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at L & B Food Center, near Rosa Parks Blvd., Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Benson stirs biscuit batter. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images documenting the E&A Soul Food Restaurant at the corner of Governor and Straight Streets.

Louis McDowell pretends to give fieldworker David Taylor a shave and a...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Doug Owens poses for photos at store counter.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at L & B Food Center, near Rosa Parks Blvd., Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Proprietor Doug Owens poses beside the store's counter.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at L & B Food Center, near Rosa Parks Blvd., Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Close-up of Benson's hand placing uncooked biscuits on baking sheet.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the E&A Soul Food Restaurant at the corner of Governor and Straight Streets.

George Jiggetts at the wheel of one of his school buses.

Forms part of a group of images documenting Jiggetts Transportation. Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Proprietor Doug Owens stands in front of L & B Food Center.

Barber Louis McDowell poses for photos in his barber shop.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Louis McDowell cuts Michael Young's hair; the haircut is called a "hig...

Louis McDowell cuts Roger Dailey's hair.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Barber Louis McDowell poses for photos in his barber shop.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Eddie Lee Harrell posing with one of his trucks.

Forms part of a group of images documenting Eddie Lee Harrell.

Eddie Lee Harrell posing with one of his trucks.

Forms part of a group of images documenting Eddie Lee Harrell.

Eddie Lee Harrell standing in front of his truck.

Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Louis McDowell gives Michael Young a haircut, the cut is called a "hig...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Louis McDowell gives neighborhood boy a haircut as siblings look on.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at McDowell's Barber Shop, 400 River Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Howard Fulcher waits on customer Luke Martin.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at Fulcher's Pharmacy, 59 Carroll Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 12, 1994.

Louis McDowell gives neighborhood girl a haircut as her mother looks o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Doug Owens poses for photos at store counter.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at L & B Food Center, near Rosa Parks Blvd., Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Doug Owens waits on customer. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at L & B Food Center, near Rosa Parks Blvd., Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Ed Ramsey, owner of the Sweet Potato Pie Company at his desk.

Forms part of a group of images documenting the Sweet Potato Pie Company at 140 Auburn Street.

Louis McDowell gives neighborhood boy a haircut as siblings look on.

George and Martha Jiggetts stand on the steps of one of their school b...

Forms part of a group of images documenting Jiggetts Transportation. Public domain photograph - law enforcement, police, troopers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Doug Owens waits on customer. Paterson New Jersey

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at L & B Food Center, near Rosa Parks Blvd., Paterson, New Jersey on September 13, 1994.

Headstones inscribed with "Unknown" marking remains moved from the Cla...

Event: Memorial Day (or Decoration Day) Weekend at African American cemetery on Performance Coal Company property.

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...

The Washington family lived in the house from 1900 - 1925. Most furnishings were made by local craftsmen and students. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...

The Washington family lived in the house from 1900 - 1925. Most furnishings were made by local craftsmen and students. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

Mississippi Marshall Hopper performs during the Clarksdale Juke Joint ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Juke joint is the vernacular term for a rudimentary establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking, primarily operated... More

During the Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival, in the Mississippi Delta ci...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Orleans Square / photographed by J.N. Wilson, No. 143 Broughton Street...

Stereograph showing a group of African Americans casually posed on lawn with many trees in the background at Orleans Square in Savannah, Georgia. No. 56. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Libra... More

Freedman's Bank Beaufort So. Ca - stereocsopic card

Photograph shows an African American boy seated on the steps of a two story building, the South Carolina Freedmen's Savings Bank in Beaufort, South Carolina. Purchase; Russell Norton; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:028). ... More

Washington, D.C. Colonel Benjamin F. Fisher and staff on steps of Sign...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0729 Title fr... More

Emancipation Monument, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. - Thomas Ball, s...

No. 15. Date written on back: "Nov. 13, 1870" is incorrect. The statue was cast in Munich, Germany in 1875 and shipped to the United States and dedicated in 1876.

As kind as a kitten / Thomas Worth.

K2808 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower right. Copyright 1879, by Currier & Ives, N.Y. Copyright stamp and number appears on lower left margin. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by... More

The exodus: its effect upon the people of the South, colored labor not...

Cover title. Also available in digital form.

The Levee, New Orleans, La., U.S.A

Stereograph showing African Americans workers on dock unloading and rolling barrels from steamers. 4725 U.S. Copyright Office Copyrighted 1900 by R.Y. Young. On mount: New York, U.S.A., 725-727 Broadway.

Live oaks, fringed with Spanish Moss, Old Goose Creek Plantation, Char...

Looking through gate past 2 African American girls, down tree-lined road, South Carolina. Copyright 1903 by Underwood & Underwood. No. 1.

Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note the kerosene pump o...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Negro child, son of a tobacco tenant farmer near Farmingham, North Car...

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

A woman standing in front of a store. Office of War Information Photog...

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

Darlene Blackburn Dance Troupe, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicag...

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-12, unidentified members of the Darlene Blackburn Dance Troupe performing at the Museum of Science and Industry

Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana Photographed by Kimball, ...

Photograph shows former slave from Louisiana with forehead branded with the initials of his owner, Volsey B. Marmillion, wearing a punishment collar and posing with other equipment used to punish slaves. Print... More

Rebecca, a slave girl from New Orleans photographed by M.H. Kimball, 4...

Photograph shows freed slave Rebecca Huger. Printed on verso: "The nett [sic] proceeds from the sale of these photographs will be devoted exclusively to the education of colored people in the Department of the... More

Simple addition by a little nigger

Cover title. Leaves printed on one side only, printed pages face each other. A counting rhyme. In illustrated paper wrapper with publisher's advertisement on p. [4]: New picture books for little children. Havil... More

Picking cotton, Detroit publishing company photo

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-31408. Attribution to Jackson and locale based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Either Louisiana or Mississ... More

The race problem: great speech of Frederick Douglass, delivered before...

In this speech, the elder Douglass reacts to southern "Resurrectionists" and their attempts to deprive southern blacks of their recently won civil rights. He examines the so-called "Negro problem" in this light... More

Unloading a banana steamer, Mobile, Ala

"G 3672" and "72" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019455. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Young negroes working in Cape May Glass Co., N.J. Been there some time...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 990. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Son of Negro sharecropper "worming" tobacco. Wake County, North Caroli...

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

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

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

Sharecropper's children. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public dom...

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

A little boy standing next to a fence listening. Office of War Informa...

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

Negro boys on Easter morning. Southside, 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

Muddy Waters, Jr., Chicago; Delia Coy and Douglas Mann, actors, Chicag...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-2, Muddy Waters, Jr., 4333 S. Berkley, Chicago; 3-15, Muddy Waters,... More

Friday night services: McGee Temple, Church of God in Christ, 4946 S. ...

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-2, unidentified children with basketball; 3-4, unidentified woman and children on steps of McGee Temple, Church of God in Christ, 4946 S. Vincennes, Chicago, Friday night services... More

North Beach Place, 431 Bay Street, 530 Francisco Street, 431 Bay Stree...

Survey number: HABS CA-2727-G Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; 1939, Ma...

James Mack, musician, Chicago, Illinois; Theresa's Lounge, Chicago, Il...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-2, fieldworker Ralph Metcalfe, Jr., James Mack, musician and educat... More

The confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in ...

LAC rwp 2019-05-29 update (1 card)

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Letter from Un...

Dance Three Arabian dances - Public domain musical sheets

Three Arabian dances (1. Caravan 2. By the fountain 3. Bedouin)/ Montague Ring--Fluttering birds (Duet for two piccolos)/ Jean Gennin. (Content) Copyright, MCMXX, by Chappel & Co. Ltd. (Copyright) Cover 4 p., 1... More