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[African American man standing on platform or loading dock with large ...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 235. 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 front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 115. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[Elderly African American couple posed outside of building, near Hampt...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

[African American girl, half-length portrait, looking at open book]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 77. 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, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly ...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 31. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American man, half-length portrait, facing front]

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

[African American woman, 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. 181. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American infant, seated in chair, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 217. 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 - Agricultural Science.

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

Line graph shows percentage of African American men and women who are single, married, or widowed by age. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for th... More

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

Maps show comparison of African American population in the United States with several European countries and Australia. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University s... More

Samuel Clemens and John T. Lewis (an elderly African American man), bo...

Curtis Publishing Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans And whites; BI; Shelf.

[South Pacific and African artifacts, Peabody Museum of Salem, Salem, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a public building, auditorium, hall, commons, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

La Grande guerre - le prix de la maison du passeur / Gravure sur Bois ...

Print shows French soldiers and African soldiers charging the German lines during battle. Caption: Les Zouaves et les Joyeux d'Afrique. In portfolio: La Grande Guerre. Paris : A. Tolmer et Cie, 1915, 2me series, no. 48.

[African American woman with basket on head walking near railroad trac...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American man at desk. U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.]

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sudan. Khartoum. Khartoum Zoo. An African lion

Public domain photograph of Sudan, Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American "steam chickens" arrive in Africa. Arriving at an African air...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paul Vautrin, residence in Redding, Connecticut. Interior V, living ro...

Public domain photograph of bedroom or living room, interior decor, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group of African Americans viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Sh...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10409, frame 18A.

[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-H, frame 8. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City, N... More

The African Queen, the African steamer featured in the movie of the sa...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Interior of the African Meeting House, built about 1885, the oldest st...

African Burial Ground, New York, New York

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, memorial, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[African American family posed on porch of house]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 357. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

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

Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American soldiers mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas]

Soldiers return home, greeted by women and children. Title devised. Published in: Harper's Weekly, v. 10, 1866 May 19, p. 308. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.162) Reference print available in the Civ... More

[Five Civil War soldiers gathered on dirt porch outside home. African ...

Title devised by library staff. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mi... More

[African American workers, Alma Plantation, False River, Louisiana]

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Typed on back: "4. Section gang, Alma Plantation, False River, La., July, 1934."; "See A-8." Forms part of: Lomax collection of p... More

[African American couple sitting in one room cabin near fireplace]

Photograph shows the inside of a small cabin where a couple sits on opposite sides of the room; the walls are covered with newspapers and posters; a dog is asleep at the woman's feet.

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

A slightly altered version of another print by the same title also issued by Metcalf and Clark (no. 1870-2), commemorating the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment and its celebration in Baltimore. In the cente... More

[African American band posed on steps to brick building]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 350. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[Full-length portrait of an African American man holding a broom]

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV84; Occupationals. "TD789" and "CDV576" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.97)

African Society Baptist Church, York Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Coun...

Significance: The only building remaining on Nantucket associated with the people from the west coast of Africa. / 1825: Land was owned by Jeffrey Summons. He agreed to convey this land to the trustees of a pr... More

[African American man seated on stone wall and two girls on lawn in fr...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 349. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, Adams & Third Streets, Nicod...

See HABS No. KS-49 for list of structures that are contributing to the historic district & fieldnotes. Significance: Probably, the first relatively significant stone church edifice on Nicodemus town site. Nativ... More

African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, Adams & Third Streets, Nicod...

[Cold Harbor, Virginia African Americans collecting bones of soldiers ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.

[Unidentified young African American soldier in Union uniform with for...

Case: Berg, no. 1-145. 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 Family Co... More

[Three quarter portrait of African man, facing front]

Inscribed on verso: Arab from Jerusalem - Negro moolah. Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

[Half-length portrait of an African American man, possibly a Buffalo s...

Photograph shows a three-quarter-length portrait of an African-American man. Title devised by Library staff based on collector's notes. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory numb... More

[City Point, Virginia African American army cook at work]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

[African American children outdoors, Eatonville, Florida; Zora Neale H...

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

A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desce...

Map shows African American population distribution and circle graph shows professions of Atlanta University graduates. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of the American Sectio... More

Melrose Plantation, African House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchit...

Significance: A small structure with an interesting roof reminiscent of an African design; one of the earliest buildings built by blacks. The building may originally have been used for utilitarian purposes. S... More

Melrose Plantation, African House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchit...

African Johnny - Public domain music sheet scan

Unknown composer. (General)

Cornelis Cort - The battle of Zama

Print showing Scipio Africanus on horseback with Roman soldiers engaging Hannibal, riding a war elephant, during the battle of Zama. Trimmed within plate. Lower right and left corners torn with loss of text an... More

[Design drawing for stained glass memorial window with text "As Thou B...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

Case: Berg, no. 150. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) Purchased from: George C. Esker, III, LaPlace, Louisiana, December 2014. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photograph... More

[A group of soldiers, and two young men, one an African American, stan...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War, 19th-century early photogrpahy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of an African American man, standing]

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

[Bust portrait of African man with jam pot hanging from his ear, Kenya...

Title devised by Library staff from caption card and item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

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

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 175. 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 slightly ...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 46. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American man, 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. 30. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African Americans posed 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. 275. 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. 139. 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, head resting on left ha...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 69. 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 left]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 154. 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, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 78. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

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

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 111. 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 left]

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

[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. 3, no. 202. 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 front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 84. 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. 134. 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. 146. 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...

Diagram shows number of African American almshouse residents. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section at t... More

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

Bar graph shows mortality rates of African Americans in Philadelphia and the United States. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibi... More

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

Bar graph shows African American population between 1750 and 1890. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section... More

"War dance - African village", Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New Y...

African dancers pointing rifles at camera - Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Photo copyrighted by C.D. Arnold. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[3 African American boys eating watermelon]

Photo copyrighted by F.W. Guerin, St. Louis. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children; African Americans Types.

[African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, standing, faci...

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 4127. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Women subway workers, N.Y.C., 1917: African American porter posed wit...

Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Journée de l'armée d'Afrique et des troupes coloniales

Soldiers in various uniforms from Africa and the colonies, who fought for France. Translation of title: A day for the African army and the colonial troops. Signed: D. Charles Fouqueray 1917. Promotional goal: ... More

[African American woman with scrub board]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Aged; African American women; Master photog.; Shelf. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation; (DLC/PP-1935:055).

[African American woman seated, hands in lap]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Aged; African American women; Master photog.; Shelf. Purchase; (DLC/PP-1934:137).

American troops on way to Liberia, Africa. The American soldiers shown...

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. forces establish bases in Liberia. Private Napoleon Edward Taylor...

Public domain photograph related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American "steam chickens" arrive in Africa. Transferred to a hangar, A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Two contact sheets showing young adults acting in a medical farce and...

Illus. in album: A city experienced: Pittsburgh, Pa., a photographic interpretation / W. Eugene Smith, v. 2, E5-R184 & E5-R185.

[African American students arriving without incident at Van Buren High...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 1525N, frame 4.

[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-H, frame 9. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City, N... More

[African Americans crossing the street near Woolworth and G.C. Murphy ...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Park Road and 14th Streets in Washington, D.C. Negros in Street, WKL, 9/8/65." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purp... More

[African American lawyer Vernon E. Jordan working on a voter education...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 17566, frame 5/5A. Contact sheet folder caption: "Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., negro law... More

African America Civil War Memorial, Washington, D.C.

The African American Civil War Memorial, at the corner of Vermont Avenue and U Street NW in Washington, D.C., commemorates the service of 209,145 African- American soldiers and sailors who fought for the Union ... More

African Burial Ground, New York, New York

Architect: Rodney Leon. Began in 1991, when, during excavation for a new federal office building, workers discovered the skeletal remains of more than 400 free and enslaved Africans. The site is a national Monu... More

African Burial Ground, New York, New York

[African American man, seated, holding violin]

Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation; 1935; (DLC/PP-1935:055). Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Leisure section.... More

[African American family posed on porch of house]

F. Holland Day - [Young man in African costume with headband]

Mounts are: Cream, black. Photograph taken through gauze. Published titles: A Nubian 1, An Ethiopian 2, Nubia 3, Head of a Nubian 4. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992... More

[African American man and child, full-length portrait, facing front] /...

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV120; young black boy, seated elderly black man. "Negatives preserved" printed on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.214)

[Full-length portrait of an African American toddler seated on a chair...

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

[Full-length portrait of an African American toddler seated on a chair...

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

[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.

[African American men tending a horse]

Photograph shows two African American men, probably servants, standing in the foreground; six soldiers standing on the front porch of a building in the background. Copyrighted by M.B. Brady in 1862. Gladstone'... 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