[Gentleman with two Negro workers bowing over grave]
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Branstard, J.
War views -- Army of the Potomac -- the way they cook dinner in camp
Photograph shows five Union soldiers, including one African American soldier, sitting and eating in front of tents. No. 2057. Photographer's name from same photograph in New York Public Library Digital Collect... More
Contrabands building a levee on the Mississippi river, below Baton Rou...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 May 9, pp. 104-105.
The great labor question from a Southern point of view
Man, seated on porch, with family, holding newspaper, and saying, "My boy - we've toiled and taken care of you long enough - now you've got to work!", to an African American man standing in front of the porch, ... More
Negro incense burner in Peru - Public domain portrait print
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. In album: Recuerdo... More
[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
[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
Plantation banjo player, American vaudeville and popular entertainment...
F9878 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1875 by Courier Co. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)
[Two Negroes leaning over a log] / O. Pierre Havens, (successor to Wil...
Stereograph shows two African American boys leaning on a log and staring into space. 7052 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from copyright records.
Washington, D.C.--the new administration--colored citizens paying thei...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1877 April 7, p. 85. Reference copy in BIOG. FILE.
[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.
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
A family party - the 200th birthday of the healthiest of Uncle Sam's a...
Print shows Uncle Sam standing at the head of a table at a dinner party in honor of the "Bi-Centennial Celebration of the First German Settlement", with Columbia sitting next to him; around the table are a "Spa... More
Thatcher, Primrose & West's Minstrels
Caption: Music and it's charms, originated & directed by Mr. Barney Fagan. Created by "The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cinti, N=Y & London." N.Y. 2251. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)
The colored school, Charleston, S.C., U.S.A.
African American girls walking single file outside school. Title transcribed from item. Copyright by B.W. Kilburn. No. 6680.
[Interior view of room showing furniture, piano, and chandelier]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 287. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
[Young African American woman, half-length portrait, facing right, wea...
In album: Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 40. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room... 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
Negro singing and dancing group
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
National Negro Business League Executive Committee
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[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
[Three African American women, full-length portrait, standing, at the ...
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - female portrait, the 1900s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Collis P. Huntington Memorial Building, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sixth Street market, Richmond, Va.
African-American vendors and farm produce--melons, corn and squash. Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co.
The Crimson skull, Movie Poster
Motion picture poster showing a man and woman in western garb with a horse standing between them. The Norman Film M'f'g Co. presents "The Crimson Skull." Baffling western mystery photoplay co-starring Anita Bu... More
Bert Williams #7 / Lumiere, N.Y.
Photograph shows portrait of African American entertainer Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams in blackface.
"Dat's a remarkable fine chile, Mis' Peebles, what name have you giv h...
A cartoon of a black man in tattered clothing conversing with a black woman surrounded by her family, as she hangs her laundry to dry in her front yard. Her husband sleeps in a chair next to the front door. A... More
[Truck load of beef being delivered to Central Market, Washington, D.C...
National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas
Public domain image of infant, child, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Negro children in doorway of alley home. Logan Alley, Northwest Washin...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta
Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Negro woman and baby. Washington, D.C.
Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Scene in the Negro section of Belle Glade, Florida
Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Home of Negro small farm owner near Vian, Oklahoma
Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns waiting to be...
Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Children of Negro sharecropper who will be resettled at Transylvania P...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Son of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, harrowing. Creek County, Oklaho...
Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Log cabin occupied by Negro farmer and his family in McIntosh County, ...
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Backs of Negro houses in Durham, North Carolina
Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sign in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Negro bar.Southside of Chicago, Illinois
Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bad housing for Negro agricultural workers. Belle Glade, Florida
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Washington DC photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of W...
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
Doctors examining baby whose parents have just brought him into the cl...
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.
Siloam, Greene County, Ga. (vicinity). Midwife going on a call, carryi...
Photograph shows African American woman walking on dirt road. Corresponding negative no. LC-USF34-46571-E Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress). LOT 1548.
Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker's children on their way ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mr. Langston Hughes, Negro poet and playwright. Chicago, Illinois
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Even army trucks need occasional carbureto...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Olney, Maryland. Showing a Negro how to vote at the polls on election ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. American manpower teaming up to ...
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Chicago, Illinois. Newsboy selling the Chicago Defender, a leading Neg...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A Negro maid - safety film negatives, Library of Congress
Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina. Negro enlistees of the 51st C...
Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethu...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Congratulated: Roy Wilkins, (second from right) is congratulated just ...
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Little Rock, 1959. Mob marching from capitol to Central High / [JTB].
Photograph shows a young African American boy watching a group of people, some carrying American flags, march past to protest the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School.
[Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval ...
Photograph shows (left to right): Mathew Ahmann (National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice); Whitney Young (National Urban Leage); Martin Luther King, Jr.(SCLC); John Lewis (SNCC); Rabbi Joachim Prin... More
[Marchers with "Medical Committee for Civil Rights" banner at the Marc...
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10344, frame 36.
The fatal shooting of Powell stirred Negro rioters to race through Har...
Public domain photograph of New York City, Broadway, downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[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
Black control of the Black community! vote Socialist Workers in 1970.
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
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.
The Georgetown elections - the Negro at the ballot-box / Th. Nast. Ne...
Illustration showing at top of page, several men at a polling place where an African American man places his ballot in the box for "Re[publ]ican Mayor Welch" which is next to the empty ballot box for "The White... More
Bringing in Sharks, Key West, Fla.
Stereograph showing three African American men on dock gutting sharks. J298860 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Company. No. 22515.
Rebecca, a slave girl from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson, photographer, N...
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Rebecca Huger sitting with arms crossed over her chest, looking at the U.S. flag toward her right. Oh! How I love the old flag! caption below image. "Entered, accor... More
George Thatcher's Greatest Minstrels
61762 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 8676. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)
Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston
Phillis Wheatley, half-length portrait, seated at desk with pen and paper, facing left. Illus. in: Poems on various subjects, religious and moral / Phillis Wheatley. London : Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Al... More
[Slave quarters on a plantation, possibly in Beaufort, South Carolina]
Photograph shows African Americans standing next to the slave houses, Port Royal, South Carolina. (Source: similar Brady negative: LC-B811-211 and researcher M. P. Higgins, 2018) Photographer name from negativ... More
A Virginia slave child in 1863 / Van Dorn, photograph artist, 285 Fult...
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of a young girl, probably Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, facing slightly right. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by T. C. Fanning, in the C... More
The Fifteenth amendment - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows a parade surrounded by portraits and vignettes of Black life, illustrating rights granted by the 15th amendment. A reduced version of Kelly's large print "The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19t... 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
Grand Theatre, 133 South Twelfth Street, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge...
Significance: The Grand Theater stands out as the only remaining black theater in the Baton Rouge area. Dating from the early 1890s, the Grand operated as a "Negro opera house and dance hall," and later as a m... More
Judge William C. Cochrane House, 3600 Fifteenth Street, Tuscaloosa, Tu...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Wm. H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee
D3810? U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The uncertainty of a sure thing. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 9007. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Libra... More
The W.P.A. Federal Theatre Negro Unit [presents] Macbeth by William Sh...
William Shakespeare books and illustrations The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during t... More
In the cotton fields of Georgia
African Americans picking cotton. 45841 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 935. Copyright by T.W. Ingersoll, Publisher
[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
Portrait photo of Rose Fay, ex-slave, Bracketville
Seminole Negro. 60. District no. 27. Picture no. 246. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration... More
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, 2300 Dumaine Street, New Orleans, ...
Significance: The Phillis Wheatley Elementary School located at 2300 Dumaine Street, New Orleans, exemplified International Style educational buildings in the state of Louisiana. Built between 1953 and 1955, th... More
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, 2300 Dumaine Street, New Orleans, ...
Significance: The Phillis Wheatley Elementary School located at 2300 Dumaine Street, New Orleans, exemplified International Style educational buildings in the state of Louisiana. Built between 1953 and 1955, th... More
NAACP - one society
Poster showing composite of seven scenes of NAACP activities. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
First colored world series, opening game Oct. 11, 1924, Kansas City, M...
Group portrait of players from the Monarchs and the Hilldale baseball teams in front of grandstands filled with spectators before the opening game of the 1924 World Series. Names of players printed on the phot... More
Old Marine Hospital, 20 Franklin Street, Charleston, Charleston County...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Rebecca, Charley, and Rosa, slave children from New Orleans / photogra...
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Rebecca Huger, Charles Taylor, and Rosina Downs, standing, facing front. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. "Ent'd, according to act of Congress, in the ... More
City Point, Virginia. Negro soldier guarding 12-pdr. Napoleon. (Model ...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Holiday Bowl, 3730 Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County...
Significance: Constructed in 1958, and operated by Japanese businessmen, the Holiday Bowl became an ethically diverse community center to area residents. It was originally open 24 hours a day to accommodate the... 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
Melrose Plantation, Big House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoche...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: The Big House, officially known as Melrose Historic House, was begun in 1833 by Marie Theresa Coin-Coin's grandson, Louis Metoyer, as a raised plantati... More
[Zora Neale Hurston, Rochelle French, and Gabriel Brown, Eatonville, F...
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: "Zora ... More
The fish question settled - Public domain portrait drawing
A facetious, and somewhat racist, look at public opinion surrounding the controversy over American fishing rights in British-controlled waters off North America. (See also "John Bull's Fish Monopoly," no. 1852-... More
[Unidentified African American woman]. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Case: Berg, no. 150. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: George C. Esker, III, LaPlace, Loui... More
[Seated black man wearing four button sack, laborer, ring]
Public domain photograph - 19th-century male studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"The first vote" / AW ; drawn by A.R. Waud.
Illustration shows a queue of African American men, the first, dressed as a laborer, casting his vote, the second is dressed as a businessman, the third is wearing a Union army uniform, and the fourth appears t... More
The Old Dominion Colored Vocalists with the Gotthold Octoroon Combinat...
K15307 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
The new South - the triumph of free labor / Keppler.
Print shows African Americans and Civil War veterans among the crowd that passes a statue of Abraham Lincoln on their way to the Cotton States Exposition visible in the background labeled "Prosperity". In the l... More
[Mr. Dodson, jeweller in Knoxville, Tenn.]
Photo shows Mr. Dodson, half-length, standing, facing slightly left, behind a display of watches, examining a pocket watch. Title from caption card. Images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for... More
[A class in dressmaking, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia]
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description