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Receipt for African American slave

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[African American workers on Cape Fear River rice plantation, N.C. Thr...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1866 Oct. 20), p. 72, no. 6. Reference copy may be in LOT 4422. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption... More

[African American workers on Cape Fear River rice plantation, N.C. Wee...

Picryl description: Public domain image of famine, hunger, powerty, refugees, people suffering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Portrait of two young African American women, one standing, one seate...

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified African American man] / Broadbent & Phillips, 1206 Chest...

No. 28229. Public domain photograph - 19th-century male studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carryi...

Stereo copyrighted by Kilburn Brothers. No. 465. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans Working; Pumps; Street vendors; Cotton Industry; Rice; Docks; Geogr.

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carryi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portrait photo of [African American woman, seated]

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American girl, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 8. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Re... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, seated, right profile, ...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 197. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders length portrait, facing left...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 205. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[American Indian and African American students at Hampton Institute, H...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision subject: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute - Vocational Training.

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing left]

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[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 49. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American men seated on porch steps]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 254. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 151. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly right]

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[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 96. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American girl, full-length portrait, standing next to table, ...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 216. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Line graph shows comparison of African American to white populations between 1790 and 1890. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibi... More

[African American children and teacher in classroom studying corn and ...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. LOT subdivision subject: Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute - Branch & Vicinity Schools. Caption card traci... More

[Exhibits Building testifying to the progress of the African American ...

H99193 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. No. 14171. Caption card tracings: African American history Post-Reconstruction; Exhibit... More

[African American man with steer and mule pulling wagon]

Copyright by L.W. Stewart, Rocky Mount, Va.

[African American prisoners at compound no. 1, Angola, Louisiana ( Lea...

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "Angola, Louisiana"; "N66-1"; "N67-1." Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting fol... More

[African American and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party suppo...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-I, frame 29. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City, ... More

A clock that depicts African Americans and Booker T. Washington in a d...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

[African American men and women standing outside church in Georgia]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 338. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[Large crowd looking at the burned body of Jesse Washington, 18 year-o...

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

[African American section hand seated, three-quarter-length portrait, ...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "Negro Section Hand, Alma Plantation, False River, La. July 1934." Forms part of: Lomax collection of photog... More

[African American banjo player]

Print shows an African American man playing a banjo and singing. V35185 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5. Copyrighted 1890 by The Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich.

["Lightnin'" Washington, an African American prisoner, in the prison h...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Typed on back: "4. Lightning, prison hospital, Darrington State Farm, April, 1934. See A-8, 182 H." Forms part of: Lomax photogr... More

[African Americans (including Zora Neale Hurston) in Belle Glade, Fla....

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "poss.... More

[African American soldier, half-length portrait, with pistol and jacke...

Gladstone's inventory code and notes: A5. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.220) Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congre... More

[African Americans and horse-drawn wagon in front of country store, tw...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 353. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[Three-quarter-length portrait of an unidentified elderly African Amer...

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV82; Civilian. "WE89" and "79 years old" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.81)

[African American child singer for singing games, Eatonville, Florida]

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "Negro... More

[African American child singer for singing games, Eatonville, Florida]

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "Negro... More

[Unidentified African American soldier in Union cavalry uniform with c...

Photograph shows sergeant's chevrons painted on the sleeves. Case: Berg, no. 7-51. Additional information in collections file. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DL... More

[Unidentified African American soldier, 9th cavalry, full-length portr...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption from Gladstone collection checklist. Date from checklist. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M103. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.305).... More

The African Church, Richmond, Virginia during American Civil War

Photograph shows group of African American men and women in front of the church on Broad Street in Richmond. No. B1211. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[African American woman, full-length portrait, standing]

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American woman, half-length portrait, left profile]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 107. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 103. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 145. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 186. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 208. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American girl, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile]

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly left]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 163. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 94. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 95. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, left profile]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 159. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 165. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American man, half-length portrait, left profile]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 148. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 222. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile]

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 80. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American boy standing with horse attached to plow]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 241. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[African American baby, full-length portrait, wearing christening gown...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 51. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American women holding umbrellas to provide shade from the su...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 240. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly left]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 133. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 179. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[Four small children playing with baby carriages in Washington, D.C., ...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Children, Misc. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Formerly in SPF Children at play.

[African Americans selling Christmas trees and holly, Washington, D.C....

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Holiday Activities. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Formerly in SPF - Christmas.

[White horse tavern, exterior view, with African American man walking ...

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

[African American school children entering the Mary E. Branch School a...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., "Free" schools open. Children arriving, opening ceremony, flag raising and assembly at Free School #2 (Mary E. Branch #2 TOH 9/16/63)" Capti... More

[Ku Klux Klan members supporting Barry Goldwater's campaign for the pr...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12250M, frame 13A.

[Black person in native African dress carrying automatic weapon and bo...

[African American and white school children on a school bus, riding fr...

Contact sheet folder caption: "School busing story - Charlotte, N.C., 14a & 15a-20a, Pix of students on bus from suburbs to Inercity [i.e., inner city] school, WKL, 2/21/73." U.S. News & World Report Magazine ... More

[Three-quarter-length portrait of an African American woman seated, fa...

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American soldiers in formation at Camp Meade, Pennsylvania] /...

Title from Gladstone collection checklist. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M129; outdoor scene, soldiers on parade with Springfields. "Camp Meade, -PA, May 1899" stamped on the front of mount. Photographe... More

[Soldier on horseback with African American servant]

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV24; Servants in the field. "M122" and "TD786" written in pencil on back of print. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.9)

[African American in tuxedo and top hat, seated, playing banjo]

V35185 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyrighted 1890 by The Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." No. 5. Title devised. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

[African American soldier] - Public domain drawing

Full-length profile of black soldier. Title devised. Inscribed below image: [o]ne of Burnside's. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.157) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Theodore Roosevelt speaking to a group of African American children o...

H72821 U.S. Copyright Office Stereograph format photograph not on stereograph mount. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Similar photograph on a stereograph mount, copyrighted 1902, has reproduction number LC-... More

Malden Historic District, African Zion Baptist Church, 4104 Malden Dri...

Significance: This church is regarded as the mother church for black Baptists in West Virginia. The congregation was formally organized circa 1852. Among its early members was Booker T. Washington, who came b... More

[Unidentified African American sailor in Union uniform sitting with ar...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[African American man standing on porch of house in Georgia]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 347. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[African American refugees coming into the Union lines near Culpeper C...

"Near Culpeper Court House, Va." on mount. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.114) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Full-length portrait of an African American boy standing beside a cha...

Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.74) Gladstone's inventory code and notes: CDV78; Children.

The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of th...

One of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment, and showing the parade celebrating it which was held in Baltimore on May 19 the same year. The amen... More

[Bust portrait of an unidentified African American man, facing left] /...

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV82; Civilian. "WE108" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.87)

[Full-length portrait of an African American man standing by a chair, ...

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV85; Civilians II. "Negatives Preserved" printed on back of the mount. "D780" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.112)

[Full-length portrait of unidentified African American man in suit, st...

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV82; Civilian. "GD989" and "CDV579" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.86)

[African American children playing singing games, Eatonville, Florida]

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "Negro... More

[African American man, sitting outside a military camp tent]

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV100; contraband. "WGD583" written in pencil on back of the mount. "37317" printed on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.174)

[Unidentified African American woman]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Case: Leather oval geometric. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Fa... More

Hiring out agreement for an African American family

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with a rifle a...

Frame: Berg 7-18. Photographer's name attribution based on article: Ertzgaard, John. "The elusive photographer of Benton Barracks." Military images, 10.6 (1989): pp. 24-25. Digital photo with mat removed by Mi... More

[Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform in front of pa...

Case: (front) Berg 4-33; (back) leather geometric with gold embellishment. Additional information in collections file. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010... More

[Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with bayoneted...

Case: Berg, no. 7-41. Additional information in collections file. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: Civil War Antiques: David W. ... More

[African American boy, full-length portrait, standing]

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of African American girl, seated]

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - 19th-century studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American dandy strikes another dandy with an umbrella]

V35189 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12. Copyrighted 1890 by The Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich.

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing left, reading bo...

Helen Nanny Burroughs Collection (Library of Congress) Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing hat, fac...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 97. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 140. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing left]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 35. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[American Indian and African American students at Hampton Institute, H...

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

[African American men, women and children outside of church]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 274. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More