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North Beach Place, Bounded by Bay Street, Mason Street, Francisco Stre...

Significance: North Beach Place was a public housing project that occupied two city blocks in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco for 50 years. Designed in 1941-42, delayed by WWII, and constructed 19... More

North Beach Place, 445 Bay Street, 445 Bay Street, San Francisco, San ...

Survey number: HABS CA-2727-B Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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 Americans dancing around a pile of watermelons]

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Taveau Church, State Road S-8-44, Cordesville, Berkeley County, SC

2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: While listed in the National Register of Historic Places and acclaimed for the sophistication of its exterior design and construction, Taveau Chur... More

Negro grocery store, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Camp William Penn, Pennsylvania] / photographed by B.F. Reimer, 615 &...

Photograph shows the Union training camp for African American troops in the distance. Title devised by Library staff from Gladstone's notes. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV34;Camp William Penn. "No.... More

Kingsway Center Commercial Area, Bounded by Kings Highway, Doctor Mart...

Significance: The targeted buildings in the Kingsway Center Area are locally significant for their architectural significance as an important representative illustration of neighborhood development and urban ve... More

Street and Negro quarters, Perry Clear Point, Point Royal Island, S.C....

Photograph shows a group of freedmen in front of living quarters constructed for them on the Perryclear Point Plantation on Point Royal Island, South Carolina. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).... More

Mollie Williams, age 84 - Public domain portrait print

230013. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.

Star Theater, 1615-1617 East Eighteenth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: The Star Theater (Gem Theater) is significant as one of the first and most enduring movie theaters constructed in Kansas City, Missouri, for an African-American clientele. The Star was built in 1... More

1318 Vermont Avenue, Northwest (House), Washington, District of Columb...

Significance: The row house at 1318 Vermont Avenue, NW, attained its prestige as the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) as as the Washington residence of Mary McLeod Bethune, the educato... More

Mary Randall, ex-slave, Beaumont

420108. District no. 27. Picture no. 233. 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, Federal Wr... More

Oakleigh, House & Slave Quarters, 350 Oakleigh Place, Mobile, Mobile C...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-19, FN-20 Survey number: HABS AL-47 Building/structure dates: 1838 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000104

Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Significance: Fort Pulaski was built in the second quarter of the nineteenth century by U.S. military engineers who hoped to guard against unwanted river approaches to the nearby port city of Savannah. It was p... More

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

William Scarborough House, 41 West Broad Street, Savannah, Chatham Cou...

Significance: An unusual Regency-Greek Revival house designed by Savannah architect William Jay. The house was built for a prominent merchant, planter, and inventor, William Scarbrough. Unprocessed Field note ... More

William Scarborough House, 41 West Broad Street, Savannah, Chatham Cou...

Frederick Douglass House, 1411 W Street, Southeast, Washington, Distri...

See also HALS DC-2 and HALS DC-3 for related documentation. Significance: The house was the residence of the Marshal and Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, Minister to Haiti and runaway slave, Fred... More

Odd Fellows Building & Auditorium, 228-250 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Ful...

Significance: It constituted the first large-scale, black-owned, black-operated, multiple use complex in Atlanta. Built in 1911-13 for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, the complex was the brainchild of Be... More

Villa Meilleur, 1418 Governor Nicholls Street, New Orleans, Orleans Pa...

1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2023 Survey number: HABS LA-1216 Buil... More

Gaineswood, 805 South Cedar Street, Demopolis, Marengo County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29 Survey number: HABS AL-211 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1910 Subsequent Work National R... More

Rosemount, County Road 19, Forkland, Greene County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-212 Building/structure dates: 1832 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000099

Lockefield Garden Apartments, 900 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, Marion...

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-20th century drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Kingsley Plantation, 11676 Palmetto Avenue, Jacksonville, Duval County...

Significance: Inhabited by Timucua Indians for thousands of years, Fort George Island, as part of Florida, was claimed by Ponce de Leon for Spain in 1513. A mission, San Juan del Puerto, was established by Jes... More