Frank Jones the musical moke. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...
Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Union Tavern, Main Street between Lee Street & Farmer's Alley, Milton,...
Significance: This Federal Tavern is best known for its association with Thomas Day, an important free black cabinet maker who produced fine furniture and interior woodwork. Survey number: HABS NC-110 Nation... More
George Washington Lincoln Napoleon Alexander Jackson
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rebecca, a slave girl from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson, photographer, N...
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Rebecca Huger, sitting facing right, with the U.S. flag to her far right. Oh! How I Love the Old Flag caption below image. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the b... More
Is you gwine hush when you spoke to, or is I bound to whup you befo' d...
Caricature showing adult African Americans in a classroom with the elderly female teacher disciplining a man seated in the front row; a young girl stands on the left, in the foreground. Label pasted on the upp... More
Sarah Ashley, ex-slave - Public domain portrait print
District no. 27. 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 Writers' Project slave nar... More
North Beach Place, 545 Bay Street, 545 Bay Street, San Francisco, San ...
Survey number: HABS CA-2727-E Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
513 Lindsey Lane (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA
Significance: Example of Cottage-style house typical of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2302 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction
Jas. Boyd, ex-slave, Waco - Public domain scan / print
420039. District no. 27. Picture no. 432. 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
Portrait photo of Martha Bunton, ex-slave, Austin
Public domain photograph, 20th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Metropolitian A. M. E. Church, 1518 M Street Northwest, Washington, Di...
Significance: One of the largest Afro-American churches in the country when built. Survey number: HABS DC-352
Black duck shooting / Thomas Worth.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0614.
William Berryman - [Negro man carrying plantains on pole]
Title from finding aid. Exhibited: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT and British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol, England... More
Wilberforce University, Xenia, Ohio. (The colored peoples college.) / ...
Birds-eye view of university buildings. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Portrait photo of William Moore, ex-slave, Dallas
420246. District no. 27. Picture no. 619. 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
John Ogee, ex-slave, Beaumont - Public domain portrait print
420109. District no. 27. Picture no. 209. 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
[Girl in dress with white collar]
African American girl at elementary school affiliated with the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
[Girl in dress with white collar]
African American girl at elementary school affiliated with the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
Old First Baptist Church, Fourth & Washington Streets, Nicodemus, Grah...
See HABS No. KS-49 for list of structures that are contributing to the historic district & fieldnotes. Significance: The first church congregation organized in 1878 on the town site; the first congregation to b... More
Old First Baptist Church, Fourth & Washington Streets, Nicodemus, Grah...
See HABS No. KS-49 for list of structures that are contributing to the historic district & fieldnotes. Significance: The first church congregation organized in 1878 on the town site; the first congregation to b... More
John Coltrane House, 1511 North Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia, Phi...
Significance: It has cultural significance as the long-time residence of John W. Coltrane, the groundbreaking and innovative African-American jazz musician (1926-1967). Additionally, the building is a superlati... More
African-American Historic District, Springfield, Clark County, OH
Survey number: HABS OH-2422 Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Secrets of the prison-house--the black hole of Washington, D.C. / from...
Composite of views of the Washington, D.C. jail and people inside the jail. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Dec. 28, pp. 88-89.
[Execution of Private William Johnson, 23 regt., U.S.C.T.]
Photograph shows the hanging of Private William Johnson and other soldiers witnessing the event, Petersburg, Virginia. Title from Gladstone's inventory notes. Pencil inscription on back reads: Hanging negro sol... More
[Full-length portrait of an African-American man, possibly a Buffalo s...
Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV51 ;Buffalo soldiers. "Pictures copied and enlarged to any size" printed on back of the mount. "8095" printed on back o... More
[Buffalo Soldier, 9th Cavalry, Company D, sharpshooter collar insignia...
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of an African American soldier, standing next to chair, his hat is on the seat of the chair. Title derived from Gladstone collection checklist. Gladstone's inventory code... More
A black and white photo of a street, New Orleans, Louisiana. Negro sec...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Aquatic Park Bathhouse, Beach Street, West of Polk Street, San Francis...
Name changed from Maritime Museum to Aquatic Park Bathhouse on 7-29-02. See also HALS CA-113 (Aquatic Park) for documentation of the surrounding landscape. Significance: San Francisco's Aquatic Park was one of ... More
Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More
Bird-Brady House, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Significance: Built between 1895 and 1897, the Bird-Brady House served as a private residence for teachers and families associated with Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionarie... More
Charles Hurt, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
Public domain photograph, 20th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
North Beach Place, 561 Bay Street, 1120 Columbus Street, 561 Bay Stree...
Survey number: HABS CA-2727-L Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Unidentified Union soldier in frock coat, private, kepi, 3rd-5th butt...
Title from Gladstone collection checklist. Case: Leather geometric. Gladstone's inventory code: A7. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.221) Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual histo... More
The Old Original North Carolinans Ex-slave Troupe
G1911 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith., Cleveland, O." Signed: W. Una, lith. & del. Small portrait of Miss Lizzie Smiley, heroine of Grand Gulf surender. Forms part of: Minstrel poster ... More
South Elyton Baptist Church, 102 First Street, South, Birmingham, Jeff...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
White cotton, black pickers and a gin. Humble and crude, but the crop ...
J200226 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; J. C. Coovert; February 6, 1915. Printed on image: "Cirkut Photo by Coovert, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.A., copyright 1914".
Alexander-Almon House, 130 Philip Almon Road, Roopville, Carroll Count...
Significance: The Alexander-Almon House is significant as a representative example of a ca. 1940 Georgian Cottage. Survey number: HABS GA-2349 Building/structure dates: ca. 1940 Initial Construction
Alexander-Almon House, 130 Philip Almon Road, Roopville, Carroll Count...
Significance: The Alexander-Almon House is significant as a representative example of a ca. 1940 Georgian Cottage. Survey number: HABS GA-2349 Building/structure dates: ca. 1940 Initial Construction
Badin-Roque House, State Highway 484, Natchez, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alcorn State University, Oakland Chapel, Alcorn State University Campu...
Public domain photograph of stairs, steps, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[African American man, full-length portrait, facing right] / photograp...
Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV100; contraband. Two one-cent tax stamps on back of the mount. "EE1083" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.172)
Negro transient agricultural laborers quarters. Homestead, Florida
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Jas. Boyd, ex-slave, Waco - Public domain portrait print
420039. District no. 27. Picture no. 427. 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
Talladega College, Swayne Hall, Talladega, Talladega County, AL
Significance: Talladega College was one of the few black colleges that pursued a strong liberal arts education during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when vocationalism dominated black education. Swayne... More
Talladega College, Swayne Hall, Talladega, Talladega County, AL
Significance: Talladega College was one of the few black colleges that pursued a strong liberal arts education during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when vocationalism dominated black education. Swayne... More
Colonel Charles Young House, Columbia Pike between Clifton & Stevenson...
Significance: Colonel Charles Young (1864-1922), the third black man to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, was the highest ranking black officer in World War I. He was also the firs... More
Colonel Charles Young House, Columbia Pike between Clifton & Stevenson...
Significance: Colonel Charles Young (1864-1922), the third black man to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, was the highest ranking black officer in World War I. He was also the firs... More
Colonel Charles Young House, Columbia Pike between Clifton & Stevenson...
Significance: Colonel Charles Young (1864-1922), the third black man to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, was the highest ranking black officer in World War I. He was also the firs... More
Rebecca. A slave girl from New Orleans
Photograph shows a vignette portrait of Rebecca Huger, facing right. Photograph probably by Chas. Paxson, of New York. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's... More
John W. Isham's Oriental America 40 minutes of grand opera.
Created and "copyright 1896 The Strobridge Lith-Co, Cincinnati & New York." Isham & Graff, sole proprietors. No. 7118. P&P has: copy 1 and copy 2 with pieces missing. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection... More
John W. Isham's Oriental America 40 minutes of grand opera.
Created and "copyright 1896 The Strobridge Lith-Co, Cincinnati & New York." Isham & Graff, sole proprietors. No. 7118. P&P has: copy 1 and copy 2 with pieces missing. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection... More
Henderson Perkins, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
420094. District no. 27. Picture no. 173. 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
[Zora Neale Hurston and other African Americans, probably at a recordi...
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Hope Homes, Building B-1, 338 Spelman Lane (Originally Leonard St...
Significance: John Hope Homes was originally planned as an extension of University Homes the first federally subsidized housing project for Black residents in the United States. In its own right, it is signific... More
Melrose Plantation, Ghana House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoc...
2006 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Yucca Plantation, known since 1885 as Melrose Plantation, was established in the last quarter of the 18th century by a remarkable family of freed slave... More
Claiborne Robinson House, 113 North Mulberry Street, Georgetown, Scott...
Significance: The Claiborne Robinson house is an example of a turn-of-the-century residence built for African-American citizens in a small southern city. Its shotgun plan is typical of houses built on narrow u... More
Claiborne Robinson House, 113 North Mulberry Street, Georgetown, Scott...
Significance: The Claiborne Robinson house is an example of a turn-of-the-century residence built for African-American citizens in a small southern city. Its shotgun plan is typical of houses built on narrow u... More
The proper caper, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1...
Q869 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Razoo: the clock stopper. Created by "Central Lith. & Eng. Co., Chicago & New York." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
[African American girls and women, Alma Plantation, False River, Louis...
Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas.
Will Adams, ex-slave, Marshall - Public domain portrait print
420241. District no. 27. Picture no. 604. 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
La San Mire, ex-slave, near Beaumont
Public domain photograph, 20th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
La San Mire, ex-slave, near Beaumont
Public domain photograph, 20th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Poster - Hoyt's A hole in the ground - Public domain lithograph
D16456 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright, 1900, by the U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print., Cincinnati & New York." Direction, Fred E. Wright. No. 4847. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collecti... More
George Thatcher's Greatest Minstrels
Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Berea College, Lincoln Hall, Berea College, Berea, Madison County, KY
Significance: Berea College was the nation's first institution of higher learning that was established with the specific purpose of educating black and white people together (except for a period of segregationi... More
[Gabriel Brown and Rochelle French, Eatonville, Florida]
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: "Gabri... More
Lafayette Square, Bounded by West Lafayette, North Arlington, West Lan...
Significance: One of a number of urban squares established in West Baltimore in the nineteenth century to encourage new residential development west of the city center, Lafayette Square defined fashionable city... More
Height of fashion / painted by Mrs. L.M. Spencer ; lith. by LaFosse.
Print shows an African American girl playing adult (holding toy lorgnon to her eye), with dog in her lap. Exhibited: "Angels & Tomboys : Girlhood in 19th Century American Art" at the Newark Museum, Newark, New... More
A "dodge" that wont work - Public domain portrait drawing
Greeley, behind whom Jefferson Davis with his cat-o-nine tails and chain, appeals to Negroes "Sam" and "Ceasar" for their vote. They will not vote for Greeley, for they "see Jeff Davis and behind him is the old... More
[Three-quarter-length portrait of an unidentified elderly African Amer...
Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV82; Civilian. "WE89" and "79 years old" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.81)
Negro women in front of ten cent store, Steele, Missouri
Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Negro women in front of ten cent store, Steele, Missouri
Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
St. Mary's Beneficial Society Hall, 14825 Pratt Street, at Main Street...
Significance: Built in 1892, for nearly a century this building was the center for charitable, social, religious, and political activities of the black Catholic community of Upper Marlboro. Survey number: HABS... More
[African American boy, full-length portrait, standing, facing front w...
Attribution to Askew from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 42. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surr... More
North Beach Place, 531 Bay Street, 650 Francisco Street, 531 Bay Stree...
Survey number: HABS CA-2727-K Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
North Beach Place, 531 Bay Street, 650 Francisco Street, 531 Bay Stree...
Survey number: HABS CA-2727-K Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
North Beach Place, 531 Bay Street, 650 Francisco Street, 531 Bay Stree...
Survey number: HABS CA-2727-K Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Magnolia Plantation, Slave Quarters, LA Route 119, Natchitoches, Natch...
1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-107 Survey number: HABS LA-1193-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction Natio... More
817 West South Street (House), 817 West South Street, Orlando, Orange ...
Significance: This house represents the dwindling historic fabric of the early, single- and multi-family Frame Vernacular dwellings that were constructed in the Holden-Parramore neighborhood of Orlando, Florida... More
Pleasant Reed House, 386 Beach Boulevard (moved from 928 Elmer Street)...
See also HABS MS-186 for additional documentation. Significance: The Pleasant Reed House was the first home built in the state of Mississippi by a Freed-man. The Pleasant Reed House is significant as a vernacul... More
Pleasant Reed House, 386 Beach Boulevard (moved from 928 Elmer Street)...
See also HABS MS-186 for additional documentation. Significance: The Pleasant Reed House was the first home built in the state of Mississippi by a Freed-man. The Pleasant Reed House is significant as a vernacul... More
What do I want, John Henry? / Alex. Gardner, photographer.
White soldier sitting facing young black servant, who is holding bottle and cake(?), with two other soldiers sitting and one standing in front of two tents. One of the soldiers is Brevet Major J.R. Coxe, who w... More
Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. T...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. feder...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Old Abe] - Public domain portrait print
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of an African American man, wearing suit and hat, standing next to a chair. Title from pencil inscription on back of mount. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV82... More
Rebecca, a slave girl from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson, photographer, N...
Photograph shows a vignette portrait of Rebecca Huger, facing left. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,... More
121 Academy Street (House), Sumter, Sumter County, GA
Significance: Example of cottage-style house typical of residential houses of the area ca. 1920. Survey number: HABS GA-2284 Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ... More
King Cotton, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph
H103681 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; J. C. Coovert; December 16, 1907. Printed on image: "'Cirkut' Photo, copyright 1907 by J.C. Coovert, 63 N. Main, Memphis."
New outskirts of town, showing Negro houses and soil erosion. Tupelo, ...
Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
330 Daniel Street (House), 330 Daniel Street, La Grange, Troup County,...
Significance: Minnie L. Smith Subdivision was a failed black-owned undertaking to provide local housing. Subdivision bought by Ralph Freeman in 1931 to build Depression-era (cheap) housing for LaGrange blacks. ... 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
Roosevelt Stadium, State Route 440 & Danforth Avenue, Jersey City, Hud...
Significance: A significant structure in the history of New Jersey and the racial integration of baseball. The stadium is associated the Mayor Frank Hague as a physical manifestation of his power and strong con... More
Roosevelt Stadium, State Route 440 & Danforth Avenue, Jersey City, Hud...
Significance: A significant structure in the history of New Jersey and the racial integration of baseball. The stadium is associated the Mayor Frank Hague as a physical manifestation of his power and strong con... More
Roosevelt Stadium, State Route 440 & Danforth Avenue, Jersey City, Hud...
Significance: A significant structure in the history of New Jersey and the racial integration of baseball. The stadium is associated the Mayor Frank Hague as a physical manifestation of his power and strong con... More
Roosevelt Stadium, State Route 440 & Danforth Avenue, Jersey City, Hud...
Significance: A significant structure in the history of New Jersey and the racial integration of baseball. The stadium is associated the Mayor Frank Hague as a physical manifestation of his power and strong con... More
Portrait photo of Priscilla Gibson, ex-slave, Jasper
420097. District no. 27. Picture no. 59. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(1). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writ... More
[Roger Mathews, Booker T. Sapps, and their girlfriends, Belle Glade, F...
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. A Negro shipyard w...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Red Oak Creek Bridge, Spanning (Big) Red Oak Creek, Huel Brown Road (C...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Bill Tatnall, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, playing guit...
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: "Bill ... More