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Albinos, or white negroes - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Con...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Chapman.

Grand bobalition, or "Great anniversary fussible"

Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides parodying the manners, illiteracy, and dialect of Boston blacks. (See no. 1819-2.) The illustration shows a black militia troop marching from left to right. The ... More

The sailor's description of a chase & capture / J Sherm, invt. [Lieut....

"A burly sailor (right) sits with five other sailors, one a negro, and two perhaps being petty officers, drinking grog at a plank-table slung from the roof ..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified ... More

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 13 / Clay fecit 1829.

Print shows an African American couple walking on the street; the woman asks the man whether he likes the waltz. Exchange; (DLC/PP-1973:253). Caption: "How you like de waltz, Mr. Lorenzo?" "'Pon de honour of... More

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 11 C

Print shows an African American woman, wearing a very large hat, in a shop trying to purchase a pair of stockings. Plate XI. Caption: "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man?" "Oui Madame! her... More

Intérieur d'une cabane de Caloches (Ile de Sitkha, Côte N.O. de l'Amér...

Interior view of lodge or cabin with Natives gathered around fire. Illus. in: Voyage autour de monde, exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'empereur Nicolas 1er, sur la corvette le Séniavine, dans les années 1826, ... More

Whitlock's collection of Ethiopian melodies. As sung with great applau...

Music cover showing two men on stage, one dancing and one playing banjo.

Plantation melodies / J.H. Bufford's lith., Boston.

Music cover showing two boys seated on bench, with one of them playing a flute, and the other holding book of music.

A freeholder's court. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

African-American man with noose around neck standing on barrel; White man is about to kick barrel. Illus. in: Richard Hildreth. Archy Moore, the white slave. New York, 1855, frontispiece. Ref. copy may be in SS... More

Honorable Josiah Thomas Walls of Florida

African American legislator. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Kalispel couple, full-length portrait, the man standing, the woman se...

In album: [British Northwest Boundary Commission and Related Subjects, 1859-1861, leaf 46]. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1999:001.01

Nursery at Elliot's Plantation, Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph shows slaves sitting in from of a building described at the "nursery". Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Edge loss on the upper right corner of the mount. Title is inscribed in ink on the f... More

[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahe...

Top illustration shows slaves escaping to a Union ship as buildings burn in the distance. Three bottom illustrations show an escaped slave in tattered clothing upon his crossing of Union lines, welts from being... More

The plantation police or home-guard examining Negro passes on the leve...

Illustration showing a guard with a lantern checking the passes of African American men traveling on a levee road at night. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 16, no. 406 (1863 July 11), p. 252.

Portrait of The champions of liberty, Print

Print shows bust portraits of George Washington, facing slightly right, and Abraham Lincoln, facing left, in ovals, with the figure of Liberty seated between them and an eagle perched above her on the Emancipat... More

Young African American woman, standing with one arm resting on a table

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Murder of a Negro at Mrs. Carter's house

White men beating an African American man, Patenburg, New Jersey. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 16, no. 824 (1872 Oct. 12), p. 796. One of three images under title: The Patenburg Massacre: from sketches by The... More

The Ebony Bridal. Some salient scenes of life in the Sunny South. 4 sc...

Caricatures of African American wedding. Wood engraved scenes after W.L. Sheppard. Illus. in: Happy Home, 1874 Feb. 3, p. 5. Reference copy may be available in LOT 4422D. This record contains unverified, old da... More

Whitaker family / photographed by J.A. Palmer, Aiken, S.C.

Photo shows a large African American family of mostly women and children, gathered around the porch of a log and clapboard cabin, with wood shingle roof and stone chimney, and a large cauldron in the foreground... More

Southern Sketches - A Gentleman of Color

Well-dressed African American with top hat and cane. Wood engraving by J.C. Smithwick after watercolor by T.W. Wood. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, supplement, 1875 July 31, p. 631. This record contains unverified... More

Red Cloud and Indians. Standing - Red Bear (Sons Are?), Young Man Afra...

A black and white photo of a group of people. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of an African American man, seated]

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Caricature, The innocents / F. Opper., public domain cartoon image

Print shows a group of African American men, one, standing at center, is wearing a hat labeled "Judge Whitewashed", and the others are wearing hats labeled "Whitewasher No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6,... More

The four Rips; or, twenty years behind the age / Gillam.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam seated at a table in front of "Uncle Sam's Inter-State Market" with a businessman labeled "Northern Capital" on the right and an agricultural producer labeled "Southern Goods - Cott... More

Darktown Sports - Winning easy: I know'd i'd send him in de air!

Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Florida-- New Years Day in the sunny south / George Barker, photograph...

Stereograph showing African American men and children outside a building. One appears to be dancing; another man plays a violin. 15442 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1886 by Geo. Barker.

Florida - Camp near Sunday Bluff - Ocklawaha River

2 men - an African American and a White man outside of cabin on which is nailed a fur; tropical vegetation; boat in river. 15465Rp2s U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by George Barker. This record conta... More

African American baseball team posing on front steps of building

Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

East Custer County, Nebraska.. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

summary: Note: An African-American is seated on the wagon at the left of the photograph. original size: 6x8

Darktown hook and ladder corps-going to the front

45995, 1891 U.S. Copyright Office Caricature issued as part of the "Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1528.

Mills Thompson, 1875-1944 - Public domain portrait drawing

Full length portrait, standing, facing front, in blackface holding knife in teeth and large club in hand. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C., Political Cartoon

A black and white drawing of a man and a woman, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington... More

[John Brown, 1800-1859, bust portrait, facing right in memorial frame]

Frame includes words "The Just man shall be in eternal remembrance -- Gave his life for the liberation of the slave."

Group of Grand Lodge of Masons, No. 1

Photograph shows group of African American men in Masonic regalia. Copyright '97 by Coovert, Greenville, Miss.

[12 African American boys posed at fence]

Photoprint copyrighted by F.L. Howe. Originally filed in SSF - NEGRO CHILDREN. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 87. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightl...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 39. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, left profile]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 153. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 262. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly ri...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 213. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

Co. I, 9 U.S. Vol. Inf., 1899 - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows group portrait of African American soldiers in Co. I, 9th United States Volunteer Infantry who fought in the Spanish-American War. 84770 U.S. Copyright Office. Accession box no. PR 03 Military... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 71. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American man, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly l...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 137. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, seated, right profile]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 196. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly ...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 50. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly ri...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 55. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 207. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 16. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American boy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 17. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing left]

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Roger Williams University--Nashville, Tenn.--Academic class

Group portrait of African American students, facing front. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rusco & Holland, sole proprietors and managers more money invested tha...

Portraits of W.A. Rusco and Jno. J. Holland. Captions: Rusco and Holland's Big Minstrel Festival : 55 people, 3 bands, traveling in their own train of cars Original Nashville Students and Colored Concert Co.,... More

Frances Benjamin Johnston - A class in sloyd [woodworking]

Young African American women training in woodworking at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 177. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

Serving the dinner, Frances Benjamin Johnston collection

Young African American woman serving dinner, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The Hampton album / Frances Benjamin Johnston. New York : M... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 114. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

Pharmaceutical laboratory at Howard University, Washington, D.C., ca. ...

Title transcribed from photo mount. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900. No caption card found in file.

Unidentified African American Civil War veteran in Grand Army of the R...

Photograph shows group portrait of unidentified Union veteran and two children, probably his grandchildren. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2017; (D073) Purchased from: Dave Taylor, Civil War Antiques, Sylvania, Ohi... More

[The Georgia Negro] Comparative increase of white and colored populati...

Graph shows increase of African American and white populations in Georgia between 1790 and 1890. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the America... More

Caricature, "Three Little Coons", public domain cartoon image

3 African American children seated at doorway. Photo copyrighted by J.H. Tarbell, Asheville, N.C. cf. America's Yesterdays, pp. 160-161. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card... More

A possum hunt. The possum viewing his finish

Photograph shows an African American man sitting on a branch reaching towards an oppossum that's climbed to the top of the tree; a man with dog wait below.

Melody - images Black History Month

Photograph shows an elderly African American man sitting outside playing a banjo.

"Boshe", Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of an African American man wearing a hat, profile, facing right. H20201 U.S. Copyright Office.

[Captain John, Paiute Indian, full-length portrait, standing, facing s...

H37840 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographer may have been A.A. Forbes. No. 256.

Richards & Pringle's Famous Georgia Minstrels

G xxc 3983 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: I'm goin'to git dat man. Created and "copyright 1903 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 6544. Forms part of: Minstrel poster ... More

Richards & Pringle's Famous Georgia Minstrels

G xxc 3984 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Oh fudge! Created and "copyright 1903 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 6541. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Lib... More

Antelope Cap, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Antelope Cap, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Some childish concepts of Christmas

5 caricatures showing Orthodox Jew reading book by Emerson in Boston in snow, man selling wares on street on the East Side, Chinese man in Chinatown holding one million dollars and opium pipe, the smart set wit... More

[The Creek Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Frederi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[African American class at Tuskegee Institute?]

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

[Interior view of Bulloch Hall dining room, scene of marriage of Theod...

Photograph showing African American man and woman in dining room. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Look out honey yo' gets yo' feets wet!

Stereograph showing two women, one possibly African American, wading in water close to shore. H97449 U.S. Copyright Office. Title is from the original handwritten caption on front of the stereograph mount. Seri... More

Women and children, Aiken, S.C.

If he wants to now, he can / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows Charles W. Fairbanks sitting with a distressed, rotund man who has a cocktail in each hand, there are several more on the ground at his feet, and an African American servant is holding a full... More

[Quanah Parker, Comanche Indian Chief, full-length portrait, standing,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

View of the berry fields near Baltimore, Md. Many girls and boys, old ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American men shovelling snow in street, Washington, D.C.(?)]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Porcupine--Cheyenne, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Porcupine, a Cheyenne man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, wearing a wreath of cottonwood leaves on his head, possibly to protect his head from the sun during a Sun Dance. J150262 U.S. Copyright Offi... More

[African American man posed in a barnyard near Lewinsville, Virginia]

Photograph from French Collection. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Jim, a Navajo Indian, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexico - U.S. campaign against Villa - 1916. U.S. soldiers on Mexican ...

10th Cavalry (African American) waving hats. 213130 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. See LC-USZ62-26809. Caption card t... More

Subway porter - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows an African American women with a duster, working as a subway porter at a subway station, New York City, 1917. Numberr on cap says: "IRT 3594 Porter." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

William LeRoy Parker of USS Rosedale in uniform in front of painted ba...

Photograph shows identified African American sailor who sailed on wooden paddle-wheel river steamship commissioned as USS Rosedale in the Delaware River area. Notation on verso: "W.L. Parker, S.S. Rosedale." M... More

ARMY, U.S. NEGRO TROOPS - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

A group of people standing in front of a tent, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. G... More

Patricia Koo - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Probably child of Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister in Washington, D.C.; with a possibly African Americ... More

Truck of the Littlefield, Alvord & Co. Express parked at the Christian...

African American man behind steering wheel. Photo by National Photo Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracing... More

Edward S. Curtis - Maskette--Nunivak, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Eskimo man, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing headdress consisting of a protruding headband around the crown of his head, feathers, and a wooden bird head in front. J299968 U.S. Copyright Office. Forms part... More

Portrait photo of [African American farmer, Texas]

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "67-9890"; "poss. Brazos River Bottoms farmer, Summer, 1933 [Texas]." Forms part of: Lomax collection of pho... More

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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.

[African American child singer for singing games, Eatonville, Florida]

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Son of Negro sharecropper, Lee County, Mississippi

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

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

Public domain photograph related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a house with clothes hanging out to dry, po...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More