10,092 Black history month Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illin...

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

A black and white photo of a group of women in graduation gowns. Great...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Front of house on Federal Street in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

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

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of t...

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

A black and white photo of two men and a dog. Office of War Informatio...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Hands of young Negro girl washing clothes on a farm near Penfield, Gre...

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

Negro preacher and his wife sitting under photos taken of them twenty ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro boy, Chicago, Illinois. Farm Security Administartion 1930s publi...

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

Entrance to house in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

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

Doctor getting charts from head nurse at Negro hospital. Chicago, Illi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro farmer sharpening plow points at a new vocational school in Gree...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mount Zion (or Walnut Grove) Negro school. Greene County, Georgia

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro tenant farm woman. A widow. She runs the farm with the help of t...

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

A black and white photo of a boy in a suit and hat. Office of War Info...

A black and white photo of a group of women. Office of War Information...

A black and white photo of three women and a child. Great Depression F...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Publisher of the Chicago Defender, Negro newspaper. Chicago, Illinois

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

House in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

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

Little Negro girl in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

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

Hernia operation, Provident Hospital, one of the few hospitals for Neg...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a surgery, surgeon, physician, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. (vicinity). Negro fishing on the Virginia side of the...

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

Chaplain George W. Williams, addressing students at a Negro elementary...

Public domain image of a military portrait, uniform, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro infantry. These Negro infantrymen, enjoy...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro schoolchildren of the Military Officers' Training Corps marching...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker's daughter

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

Chicago, Illinois. Good Shepherd Community Center. At a recital of a y...

Public domain image of musical performance, piano music, keyboard instrument, pianist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. American manpower draws its skil...

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

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. Two Negro welder...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Plato's office staff for Wake and Midway Halls. Samuel Plato, contract...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, 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 political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington (southwest section), D.C. Portrait of a young Negro girl

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

Detroit, Michigan. Typical Negro family at Sojourner Truth homes

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington (southest section), D.C. Wooden privies in the Negro area

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

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Final assembly of the pilot's co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Back view of a Negro dressed in a zoot suit, walkin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Washington, D.C. Negro youth reading a funny paper on a door step in t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

At a Negro Catholic Church service on the South Side. Chicago, Illinoi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of liturgy, ceremony, church, Christianity religion, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

NYA (National Youth Administration) Center, Brooklyn, New York. A Negr...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. In a sea of silk, this woman worker...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. America draws its manpower...

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

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America'...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. Bulldozer grading the gro...

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

Chaplain George W. Williams, addressing students at a Negro elementary...

Public domain image of a military uniform, officer portrait, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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.

Corpus Christi, Texas. Truckload of Mexican and Negro farm laborers

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

[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

[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

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.

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

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

Mose Hursey, ex-slave, Dallas - Public domain portrait print

420226. District no. 27. Picture no. 577. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More

Negro sitting on bench at side of barbecue stand made of galvanized me...

Public domain photograph of street advertisement signs, downtown commercial district, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro sitting on bench at side of barbecue stand made of galvanized me...

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

Mary Cecil Canrtill No. 5 House, 216 Oregon Street, Georgetown, Scott ...

Significance: The Cantrill #5 house represents a type of residence built for late 19th-early 20th century African-American working-class tenants. It is significant for its role as a residential subtype (double... More