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Negro cabin near U.S. Capitol - Public domain portrait drawing

Drawing shows a cabin with many room extensions on a slight hill. An African American woman stands on a porch outside the front door. There is a study of a cabin lower left and a sketch of a man below the image... More

Nation's Business. Negro housing II

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Backyard of Negro dwelling in slum area near the House office building...

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Negro women near Earle, Arkansas

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Negro barber shop. Atlanta, Georgia

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Negro houses. Atlanta, Georgia. Great Depression public domain photogr...

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Negro cotton hoers are taken from the Delta cotton towns to the cotton...

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The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

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Negro stevedores "snaking" drums down ramp to boat, New Orleans, Louis...

Public domain photograph of aircraft engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro stevedore with sack of oysters, Olga, Louisiana

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Zollie Lyons, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at no...

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Washington, D.C. A view of backyards of apartment houses where both wh...

Public domain photograph of apartment building, architectural plan, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro and white man sitting on curb talking, Muskogee, Oklahoma

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The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

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

Negro preacher during church service in Heard County, Georgia

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

Negro FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower on the Jones farm, s...

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

Son of Mr. Frank Cunningham, Negro FSA (Farm Security Administration) ...

Picryl description: Public domain portrait of a child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Negro church service. Heard County, Georgia

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

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Anna C. Marchand is one of the hund...

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Chicago, Illinois. Mr. John Sengstacke, part owner and general manager...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Government hotel for Negro women war workers. Administrative staff mem...

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

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction of Douglas Dam. Negro w...

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.

Detroit, Michigan. Church in the Negro section

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

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Americans of various racial grou...

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

Fort Knox. Negro mechanics. Transmission job on an army truck at Fort ...

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

Aluminum casting. A husky Negro workman taps a 2,000-pound rotary furn...

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.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Negro women workin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled w...

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.

Pore lil Mose; his letters to his mammy

Cover title. Comic cartoons from the New York herald of 1901-02.

Negro dance / R. Bridgens del et lith. ; Day & Haghe lithrs. to the Ki...

Print shows African Trinidadians playing music and dancing. Date based on years that Day & Haghe served as Lithographers to the King. Earlier version published in: Bridgens, Richard. West India scenery with il... More

People sitting on front porches in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Poster - Negro double song & dance - Public domain lithograph

F9879 U.S. Copyright Office Created by the Courier Co. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Negro city tenements, Atlanta, Georgia]

Title identification information from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 300. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are... More

Interior of Negro store, Buffalo, N.Y.

Public domain photograph of pharmacy, convenience store, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Georgia Negro] Conjugal condition. - Exposition Universelle Inter...

Graph shows marital status by age of African Americans compared to Germans. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section at the Pari... More

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

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[Negro woman standing in window]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation, 1935 (DLC/PP-1935:055).

Negro youngsters in doorway of alley dwelling. Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mississippi photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro boy near Vicksburg, Mississippi

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

Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Negro cabins are on o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Negro musicians playing accordion and washboard in front of store, nea...

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Negro revival meeting, La Forge, Missouri

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House in Negro section. Baltimore, Maryland

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The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro farmer who has brought his cotton samples to town discusses pric...

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Five children of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, studying their lesson...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Family of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, eating breakfast consisting ...

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

One of the children of Mr. Strickland, Negro FSA (Farm Security Admini...

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

Veazy, Greene County, Georgia. The one-teacher Negro school in Veazy, ...

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.

Young people outside of Negro high school, Black Belt, Chicago, Illino...

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

Negro tenant farmer who had to move out of the Santee-Cooper basin. Ne...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Veazy, Greene County, Georgia. The one-teacher Negro school, south of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro tenant farmer and his wife. Greene County, Georgia

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

Entertainers at Negro tavern. Chicago, Illinois

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. feder...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

First lady inspects war workers' homes. On an inspection tour of feder...

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

Mr. Langston Hughes, Negro poet and playwright. Chicago, Illinois

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

Washington (southwest section), D.C. Two Negro boys shooting marbles i...

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

New York, New York. Richard Wright, Negro poet

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

Newport News, Virginia. Mrs. Ethel R. Stephens, organizer of the Consu...

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

Miscegenation; the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the...

Attributed by Sabin, in his Dictionary, to D. G. Croty, George Wakeman, and E. C. Howell. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

WPA Federal Theatre presents "The case of Philip Lawrence" A new play ...

Poster for Negro Theatre Project presentation of "The Case of Philip Lawrence" at the Lafayette Theatre, Seventh Ave. and 131st Street, New York City, showing African-American man with arms chained together, ma... More

Street in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

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

Street in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Pittsburgh Courier is widely read in the Negro section of Chicago,...

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Present day mother and child ... not pure Negro

Title transcribed from item. 30676. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.

Negro Soldiers. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Hand written note by reader on verso states probable location as South Carolina. Information unverified.

Drayton's negro quarters, Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph shows soldiers and slaves in front of the slave quarters on Drayton's plantation. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.271). General info... More

Shall we call home our troops? "We intend to beat the negro in the bat...

Reaction of radical South toward Negro after North does not follow up her promises to the Negro. Wood engraving by C.S.R. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1875 Jan. 9. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4422 H. This record con... More

Negro woman and children on steps of day nursery of Women's League, Ne...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Caption card tracings: Daycare; African American History; W... More

[The Georgia Negro] Darien, McIntosh Co., Ga. Distribution of 1000 Neg...

Plat shows the location of residences of different classes of African Americans. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section at the... More

Washington DC photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of W...

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the U.S. Capitol building,... More

Attractive Negro homes in a better Negro district, Newport News, Virgi...

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

"Griffin children" of west Alabama land use demonstration project near...

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

Interior of a plantation house now vacant but for two rooms occupied b...

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Negro school at Tent City near Shawneetown, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Group of Negro women at revival meeting, La Forge, Missouri

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Negro revival meeting, showing preacher and deacons, La Forge, Missour...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives

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

Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint. Memphis, Tennessee

Picryl description: Public domain image related to dance, dancing, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leland, Miss., in the Delta area. The Rex theatre for Negro people

Address: 314 Broad Street, Leland, Mississippi. Corresponding negative no. LC-USF34-52508-D Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress). LOT 1642.

New home of Cube Walker, Negro tenant purchase client. Belzoni, Missis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro family with supplies in wagon ready to leave for the farm, Satur...

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

Old Negro, near Camden, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Three of the thirteen children of William Sanders, Negro farmer who ha...

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

Mr. Jim Brown, Negro landowner near Siloam, Greene County, Georgia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

An old plantation house now occupied by a Negro FSA (Farm Security Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Veazy, Greene County, Georgia. The one-teacher Negro school in Veazy, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro cabaret. Chicago, Illinois

Public domain photograph of theatrical performance, theater, play, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Doctor visiting patient in Negro hospital. Chicago, Illinois

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. LeRoy Dunn, Negro tenant farmer in a field near White Plains, 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.

Siloam, Greene County, Georgia. Classroom in a Negro school

Newport News, Virginia. Negro shipyard worker does volunteer duty as a...

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