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The Scourged Back - The furrowed and scarred back of Gordon, a slave w...

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Albert Dogan. - Public domain portrait print

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A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas cotton pickers - ...

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Ralph W. Tyler; An auditor of the Government at Washington.

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Dr. Robert Russo[Russa] Moton; Principal Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee,...

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Walter M. Farmer; 186 W. Washington, Main 4153.

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Roland Hayes: Whose achievement as a singer symbolizes the promise of ...

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Two African American Navy officers, [left to right] Ensign J. J. Jenki...

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African American sailors rolling out barrels from a vessel to shore of...

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Migratory agricultural workers at the Little Creek end of the Norfolk-...

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Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida State empl...

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Dr. James McCune Smith - Public domain portrait print

Negro sharecropper and son who will be resettled, Transylvania Project...

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The discovery of Nat Turner - Public domain historical image

An FSA [Farm Security Administration] supervisor consults a borrower a...

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E. Harrison; Mess attendant; Lost on the U.S.S. Alcedo, November 5, 19...

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Henry McCorkle, Mess attendant, 3c, U.S.N.; Killed on U.S.S. Von Steub...

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Wilson C. Sampson; Fireman 1st Class, U.S.N.; Commended for seamanlike...

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Wallace Simpson; Employee U.S. Navy.

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Prof. W. Robert Smalls; Principal, Lincoln High School; Paducah, Ky.

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Unloading oysters from packet boat arriving at New Orleans, La.

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A group of men standing in front of a store, Scene at Smithland, Kentu...

Negroes in bunkhouse in strawberry fields near Hammond, Louisiana; Not...

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Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, SW, Washington...

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Hello ma Ragtime gal - Public domain sheet music scan

Henry Highland Garnett. - A black and white photo of a man in a suit

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On the Ocklawaha River, Fla. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL...

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A Fine view of the Oklawaha River at Palmetto Landing.

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Sampling cotton. Collection of Georgia Sterescope Cards

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Dr. James McCune Smith - Public domain portrait print

Oclawaha River, Fla. Steamer Marion. Florida Sterescope Cards Collecti...

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A Fine view of the Oklawaha River at Palmetto Landing.

Florida stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More

A Fine view of the Oclawaha River at Palmetto Landing.

Florida stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More

Sampling cotton. Collection of Georgia Sterescope Cards

Georgia stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More

One to do the work ... [African American men chopping wood at the side...

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Uncle Rastus (NYPL b12647398-67620)

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Old Black Joe (NYPL b12647398-68805)

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Products of Sun Kissed Southland (NYPL b12647398-74034)

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The Negro in American history (microform) - men and women eminent in t...

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The Negro trail blazers of California (microform) - a compilation of r...

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Samuel Ringgold Ward. - Public domain dedication image

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The author and Rev. Harry Knight

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Pastor Henry N. Jeter; [Installed Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in 1...

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L. O. Wilson, Weston, West Va.

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Alexander Walters. - A black and white photo of a man in a robe

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Group of experts sent by the UNIA to Liberia, June 1924, to prepare th...

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A Negro conjure-doctor. - images Black History Month

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William Still; The underground railroad.

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Rev. J. A. Beebe, Bishop of the Colored M. E. Church.

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George W. Williams. - Public domain portrait print

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Rev. Ananias Brown. - A black and white photo of a man in a suit

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The Rev. Absalom Jones, first Afro-American priest.

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Uncle Remus' Express; The Negro horseless carriage.

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S. W. Starks, late Grand Chancellor of West Virginia and Supreme Chanc...

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Mr. H. E. Hall. - A black and white photo of a man in a suit

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President John A. Gregg.

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Reverend David Koonts. - A black and white photo of a man in uniform

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Peter Still - "the kidnapped and the ransomed."

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Thomas Rutling. - A black and white drawing of a man in a suit

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Rev. Lewis H. Holsey, Bishop of the Colored M. E. Church.

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Too late. - A black and white drawing of a man with a beard

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Elder E. M. Mix. - A black and white photo of a man with a beard

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S. Hamlin Guss, Principal Normal Department West Virginia Colored Inst...

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Dusky Plotter Frank. - A black and white photo of a man standing on a ...

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Thomas T. Thruston, Mrs. Williams brother.

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Afro-Americans with more than national reputation.

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Rev. Richard Vaughn; Fourth Pastor, 1844-1857.

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Reverend Samuel Holt. - A black and white photo of a man in a hat

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Stud Poker - A black and white drawing of a family sitting around a ta...

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Benjamin M. Holmes. - Public domain portrait print

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An old-fashioned grist-mill.

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Henry Highland Garnett.

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Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D.D.

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H. D. Hazlewood, Assisitant Principal Summer High School, Parkersburg,...

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Gathering turpentine sap by the cup process.

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Afro-Americans with more than national reputation.

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Monotype operators; Modern typesetting machines; A.M. Sunday School Pu...

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Rev. James Underdew; Fifth Pastor, 1859-1863.

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Isaac Riley; An escaped slave and one of the earliest settlers in Kent...

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Mississippi hoodo-doctors. - images Black History Month

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Louis Thomas, St. Paul's, New Orleans.

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Roll Them Bones - Engraving, Public domain image

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Bishop Daniel A. Payne. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Morris and baby.

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E. L. Morton, Principal Victoria High School in 1903, now Principal Fa...

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An African Methodist Episcopal Bishop.

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Rev. Theodore Doughty Miller, D.D.; Sixth Pastor, 1864-1897.

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Mississippi hoodo-doctors. - images Black History Month

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Death of Romulus Hall. - Public domain dedication image

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Samuel R. Lowery; [Silk culturist.]

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Uncle Aaron, the preacher.

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J. Rupert Jefferson, Grand Worthy Counsellor, Grand Court of Calanthe.

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W. S. Scarborough. Thirty years an Instructor - now President.

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An African Methodist Episcopal Bishop.

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Making a hand. - A black and white photo of a man standing in the wood...

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Agriculture - A black and white drawing of a man on a bench

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Resurrection of Henry Box Brown.

Robert Smalls. - A black and white photo of a man with a beard

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