blacks

William Austin - [The Duchess of Queensberry and Soubise], British Car...

A fencing match between a Black man and the Duchess whose face is concealed by a fencing mask. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5120.... More

The poor blacks going to their settlement, British Cartoon Print

Print shows the Prince of Wales and several British ministers (Burke, Fox, North, George Hanger, and possibly Sheridan) portrayed as poor Blacks, shabbily dressed and being driven toward debtor's prison depicte... More

Philanthropic Consolations, after the loss of the Slave-Bill

William Wilberforce and Samuel Horsley, Bishop of Rochester, cavort with two black women in a well-furnished room. Wilberforce and a woman, wearing a print dress with her breasts exposed, sit on a couch smoking... More

William Berryman - La Duchesse / W5(?).

Jamaican woman seated in doorway, kerchief over hair.

William Berryman - Jemmie(?) ; Mr. Brant for Hythe

Two drawings perpendicular to one another : half-length profile of Jamaican woman; and two sailboats with several passengers in each.

Le collier de fer, châtiment des fugitifs ; Nègres en commission, par ...

Illustrations showing black fugitives wearing iron collars as punishment, two blacks wearing rain garments, and two slaves carrying tiles on their heads. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, d... More

Enterrement d'une femme Nègre ; Convoi funèbre d'un fils de roi Nègre ...

Illustrations showing men and women carrying palanquin with the body of a black woman inside church for burial and the funeral procession for the son of a black king. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique... More

L'exécution de la punition de fouet ; Nègres ào tronco / J.B. Debret, ...

Illustrations showing black man being whipped to death in the street and black prisoners lying on floor with feet in stocks. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu'en 1831 ... ... More

Mariage de nègres d'une maison riche ; Convoi funèbre de nègrillons / ...

Illustrations showing the wedding ceremony of a wealthy black couple and a funeral procession for two black children, with one body being carried in a sedan chair, the other carried by a man. Illus. in: Voyage ... More

Nègres cangueiros ; Différentes nations nègres / J.B. Debret, delt. ; ...

Illustrations showing men transporting large cask and nine faces showing scarification and hairstyle patterns of different black tribes. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu'... More

Le chirurgien nègre ; Boutique d'un marchand de viande de porc / J.B. ...

Illustrations showing a black surgeon tending to patients in the street and pork seller's shop with men selling and carving meat. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu'en 1831... More

Esclaves nègres, de différentes nations / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. d...

Illustration showing faces of black women slaves from various tribes reflecting different styles of dress and adornment. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu'en 1831 ... / pa... More

[2 Blacks carrying gentleman in hammock attached to pole; also 2 mules...

Lithograph by Thierry freres. Illus. in: Debret, Voyage...au Bresil, 1834-1839, Pl. 15. Reference copy may be in LOT 4410 A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: T... More

Massacre of the Whites by the Indians and Blacks in Florida

Massacre of whites by Florida Natives and African Americans. Illus. in: An authentic narrative of the Seminole war; [...]. Providence : Printed for D.F. Blanchard, 1836. Reference copy in LOT 9356. Published in... More

Negro dance on a Cuban plantation Coolies and Negroes ; Farm scene nea...

Three illustrations show laborers from Africa and China dancing, interacting, and working on a farm in Cuba. Title from item. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. III, no. 109 (1859 January 29), p. 73.

City of Montgomery, Alabama [6 blacks farming in field in foreground b...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 5, (1861 June 1), p. 344-345. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Negroes ; Farming.

Free Negroes in Hayti

Satire on the savage condition of blacks in Haiti as cannibals who sacrifice children. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 27.

The war in Virginia - contrabands coming in to the Union camp [Blacks...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Wood engraving after drawing by Edwin Forbes. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 18, no. 464 (1864 Aug. 20), p. 340.

Negro incense burner in Peru

Photograph shows portrait of young, well dressed black woman holding an ornate handled plate with an incense burner shaped like a turkey. Photographs by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. Title from item. In... More

[Black man with ceremonial mace and letter I]

Band leader or military guard. "Initial for Harpers magazine" Verso. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The "War of Races"--The conflict in Tennessee - the "Regulators" shoot...

Three African American men on ground after being shot; armed men on horseback in moonlight in background. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 39, 1874 Sept. 19, p. 17.

Peter Jackson S.F. Hess & Co.'s cigarettes

Cigarette card for S.F. Hess & Co. tobacco manufacturer shows portrait of African Australian boxer Peter Jackson. Title from item. Stamped on verso: "William W. Hurlbut, Cheyenne, Wyo." Issued by: S.F. Hess & C... More

[Blacks on tobacco plantation, Jamaica] - Frank G. Carpenter collectio...

Frank & Frances Carpenter Collection. By Publishers Photo Service

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Blacks, Yolo County, California

Sep 1897. 1 Sheet(s).

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

On mount (verso): "by" pencil, upper right. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collection. Cite as: The Louise Imogen Guiney... More

Light house, Nassau

Winslow Homer - Light house, Nassau

Date based in Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a watercolor study signed "Winslow Homer" and dated 1899. "McCormick 390" and "C. [...] executor" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 048022... More

Sponging fleet in harbor, Nassau, W.I

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). "WHJ 39" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013492. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Negro family, Grant's Town, Nassau, W.I

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). Attribution based on negatives with similar numbers. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013486. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Street in Grant's Town, Nassau, Bahama Islands

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). "(WJ)" on jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013464. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Diving for coins, Nassau, W.I

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). "WHJ 15" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013494. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Group of natives, Havana, Cuba

Diving for coins, Nassau, W.I

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). "WHJ [...]6" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013495. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Rum Cay, Bermuda]

The market delivery, Nassau, Bahama Islds.

Diving for coins, Nassau, W.I.

Sponging fleet in harbor, Nassau, W.I.

Winslow Homer - Rum Cay, Bermuda

"McC-388-389" on transparency. Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photo of watercolor study signed "Homer." Detroit Publishing Co. no. 48024. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Negro diving boys, Nassau, W.I.

Street in Grant's Town, Nassau, Bahama Islands

Negro diving boys, Nassau, W.I

"WJ 58" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013496. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Negro family, Grant's Town, Nassau, W.I.

[Market on the wharf, Nassau, Bahama Islands]

Group of natives, Havana, Cuba

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "265" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09209. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Gathering sisal, Nassau, Bahama Islds

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). Attribution based on negatives with similar numbers. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013484. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Winslow Homer - Rum Cay, Bermuda

Title and date from Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a watercolor study signed "Winslow Homer." "McCormick 389" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 048024. Gift; State Historical Society ... More

Diving for coins, Nassau, W.I.

Diving for coins, Nassau, W.I

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). "WJ [...]7" on negative. Title based on similarity to LC-D4-13495. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Gathering sisal, Nassau, Bahama Islds.

Rum Cay, Bermuda, autochrome color photo

Negro family, Grant's Town, Nassau, W.I.

Market on the wharf, Nassau, Bahama Islands

Title and date from Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). "WHJ 52" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013467. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The market delivery, Nassau, Bahama Islds

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). "WHJ 33" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013491. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Diving for coins, Nassau, W.I.

Negro family, Grant's Town, Nassau, W.I

"WJ 63" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013487. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Queen's staircase, Nassau, Bahama Islds.

Negro cabin, Foxhill, Nassau, Bahama Islds.

Queen's staircase, Nassau, Bahama Islands

Queen's staircase, Nassau, Bahama Islds

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29613. Attribution based on negatives with similar numbers. "WHJ 60" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013469. ... More

Street scrap in Grant's Town, Nassau, W.I

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29618. Attribution based on negatives with similar numbers. "WHJ 16" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013488. ... More

Street scrap in Grant's Town, Nassau, W.I.

A native sugar mill, Nassau, W.I.

A native sugar mill, Nassau, W.I

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29619. "WHJ 140" on negative; "WHJ 40" on transparency. Photo shows boy eating sugar cane. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013... More

Negro cabin, Foxhill, Nassau, Bahama Islds

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29617. Attribution based on negatives with similar numbers. "WHJ 15" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013485. ... More

Queen's staircase, Nassau, Bahama Islands

Attribution based on negatives with similar numbers. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013468. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Jewish New Year - boot blacks

Papa love mama

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Happy Endings," Life, 79:5 (Jan. 19, 1922).

[Scenes in cotton field - Blacks picking; White men watching; large fa...

Steel engraving copyrighted by American Bank Note Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans and whites; Cotton industry; Cotton picking; Shelf.

[Scenes in cotton field - White man weighing cotton picked by Blacks]

Steel engraving copyrighted by American Bank Note Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans and whites; Cotton industry; Cotton picking; Shelf.

[F.D. Roosevelt at helm of "Ship of State" - forward with Roosevelt"; ...

J15996 U.S. Copyright Office Photo of painting by Gulbrand Gilbert Sethes. Second card attached to first reads: "F.D.R. and Eleanor Campaign poster by anon. black artist c. 1932? . "Ship of State. Forward with... More

[Portraits of children and adults in the Bahamas; A candy seller in Sa...

Title and date 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 bac... More

[Man standing, half-length portrait, facing forward, Eatonville, Fla.]

[Two men and a girl posed standing in foreground, possibly from the vi...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photo taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Forms part of: Lomax collect... More

[Man sitting in doorway, possibly from the visit by Alan Lomax and Mar...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos possibly taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Forms part of: Lom... More

[Man standing, facing right, Eatonville, Fla., taken during the Lomax,...

Photograph probably shows Preston Staggers. Staggers' wife, Rebecca Brown, was the aunt of blues singer Gabriel Brown of Eatonville. (Source: researcher V. Owens-Wright) Title devised by Library staff based on ... More

[Rear view of woman entering house, possibly from the visit by Alan Lo...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[Man holding child, standing, facing front, possibly from the visit by...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photo taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Forms part of: Lomax collect... More

[Man standing in front of house, possibly from the visit by Alan Lomax...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[Women and children on a porch(?), probably from Georgia, Florida, and...

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

[Man sitting aboard ship, taken during Bahamas recording expedition]

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: "8." F... More

[Unidentified building (left photo); Men standing outdoors, near thatc...

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: "voodo... More

[Man wearing tie, standing, facing front, possibly from the visit by A...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[Child standing, facing front, possibly from the visit by Alan Lomax a...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[Woman standing outside two houses, possibly from the visit by Alan Lo...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[Man seated in rocking chair, facing forward, Eatonville, Fla., taken...

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

[Man standing at wheel of ship, facing forward, taken during Bahamas r...

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: "5"; "... More

[Man seated, facing right, holding hat, Eatonville, Fla., taken during...

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

Ohio photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Inform...

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

[Two photos featuring groups of men and women walking down road, proba...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[People dancing, probably from Georgia, Florida and Bahamas expedition...

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

Structures housing poor whites and blacks, Hamilton County, Ohio

[Woman seated in porch swing, Eatonville, Fla., taken during the Lomax...

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

[Portraits of people standing on a beach and one photo of a man standi...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[Child sitting in window, possibly from the visit by Alan Lomax and Ma...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[Man standing at wheel of ship, facing forward, taken during Bahamas r...

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: "6." F... More

[Woman standing, full-length, facing front, possibly from the visit by...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[Woman seated in rocking chair, Eatonville, Fla., facing forward, tak...

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

[Man standing at door of house, looking out, possibly from the visit b...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[Woman and boy standing in road, possibly from the visit by Alan Lomax...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

[Two men walking down road, possibly from the visit by Alan Lomax and ...

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. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More