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1.
African American men wearing sweaters with a Y on them

Creator:

A. C. Teal Studio (Houston, Tex.)

Date:

1920s

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Still image

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2.
Joslin Bingham (Frisco) posing on a chair

Creator:

Amsterdam News.

Date:

1920s

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3.
Mr. Earle and woman standing in a pharmacy in Brooklyn

Date:

1920s to 1930s

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4.
African American men, women and children watching the 41st anniversary and mortgage burning services of the High Street Baptist Church, Roanoke, Virginia, and the presentation of an automobile to the Pastor, Sunday, September 20th, 1925

Date:

September 20, 1925

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5.
Bentley Baker with Gynecomastia and Carcinoma of stomach

Date:

1925

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6.
Hands of person with Congenital Hypertrophic Osteoarthropathy

Date:

1925

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7.
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, team, 1925

Creator:

Standard Art Studio (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1925

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Still image

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8.
Portrait of E.D.W. Bell, Pastor of St. Paul's Church

Date:

May 3, 1925

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9.
Prophet noble Drewall, founder of Moorish Science, in traditional dress, with his hand on his chest

Creator:

Jones, R. D.

Date:

1925

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Still image

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10.
Robert Johnson with Fibroma of scalp and Multiple Pigmented Nevi of trunk

Date:

1925

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Robert Johnson with Fibroma of scalp and Multiple Pigmented Nevi of trunk

Date:

1925

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12.
1926 Samuel Huston College football champions

Creator:

Jordan Company (Austin, Tex.)

Date:

1926

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Still image

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13.
Knoxville Colored High School class of '26

Creator:

Browder's Studio.

Date:

1926

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Still image

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14.
A Night in Dixie Dixie Review : African American men's Dixie band, two in ticket booths, with five African American women on stage

Creator:

Century.

Date:

1926

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15.
Portrait of W. Rollo Wilson, Ph.D., in a suit and wearing glasses

Date:

November 6, 1926

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Still image

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16.
An excavation for gasoline tanks for the Bethlehem Steel Co. on Dec. 9th 1927

Date:

December 9, 1927

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17.
Men distributing brick to port arches, in Ohio, on Dec. 23, 1927

Date:

December 23, 1927

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18.
On the levee : Mississippi flood, 1927

Creator:

Coovert's Studio (Memphis, Tenn.)

Date:

1927

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Still image

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19.
A portable conveyor at Steelton Plant on March 3rd, 1927

Date:

March 3, 1927

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20.
Railroad workers, 1927

Creator:

Harman's Studio (Charlottesville, Va.)

Date:

1927

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Still image

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21.
Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt, vaudeville producers, writers, and performers

Creator:

Woodard's Studio (Chicago, Ill.)

Date:

1927

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22.
Two African American brick conveyors in Ohio on December 23, 1927

Date:

December 23, 1927

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23.
Two African American men, in overalls and hats, shoveling dirt onto a conveyor belt

Date:

March 8, 1927

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24.
Undertaker next to building and pole

Date:

1927

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25.
Delta Psi Chapter of Shaw University in Raleigh N.C. from 1924-1928

Date:

1928

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26.
Improved Benevolent Protective Order of the Elks of the World (IBPOEW), 29th Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 29, 1928 [panorama]

Creator:

Woodard.

Date:

August 29, 1928

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Still image

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27.
Men loading ore to car on May 8, 1928

Date:

May 8, 1928

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Still image

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28.
Portrait of an African American man

Date:

April 1928

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Still image

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29.
Portrait of Oscar in a suit

Date:

March 22, 1928

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Still image

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30.
Portrait of Roland Hayes

Date:

November 5, 1928

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31.
Santa Fe Freight Car Show Band on truck

Creator:

Wolfe.

Date:

1928

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Still image

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32.
The slave auction block at Fredericksburg, Va. with a former slave standing before it

Creator:

Virginia State Chamber of Commerce.

Date:

December 4, 1928

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Still image

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33.
African American men and women at the State Association in Marion, S.C. on June 18-20, 1929

Date:

June 1929

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Still image

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34.
Four African American men standing outside the New Boston Garage in 1929, with an automobile

Date:

1929

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Still image

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35.
Group picture of Universal Life Insurance Co. stock holders in front of entrance to the home office of Universal Life Insurance Co.

Date:

1929

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Still image

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36.
Man and woman walking in the street

Creator:

Star Photos.

Date:

January 5, 1929

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Still image

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37.
Rollin Smith, baritone

Creator:

Amsterdam News.

Date:

1929

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Still image

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38.
An African American man in trenchcoat and hat

Date:

1930s to 1940s

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Still image

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39.
An African American man jumping over a horizontal bar

Date:

June 1, 1930

Format:

Still image

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40.
Banquet - Smoker, 20th Annual Grand Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, Philadelphia, PA. Dec. 27-31, 1930

Creator:

Penn Photo Service.

Date:

December 1930

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Still image

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41.
Color portrait of Sonny Boy Williamson

Date:

1930s

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Still image

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42.
Ed on steps to house

Date:

1930

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Still image

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43.
J. Julius Gludd using a typewriter, with Capt. Jno Love and R.S. Barnoby sitting next to him

Date:

June 1, 1930

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Still image

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44.
Large group of boys and girls, an African American man, three African American women and a baby in front of John D. Earle Prescription Pharmacy

Date:

1930s

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45.
Man driving a tractor pulling a plow

Date:

1930s

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46.
Portrait of Hall Johnson

Date:

April 7, 1930

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47.
Robert Henry with dog on steps

Date:

1930

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48.
Samuel Alexander with dog on steps

Date:

1930

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49.
Easton & Howell posing with a ukulele

Creator:

Strand (N.Y.)

Date:

1931

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Still image

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50.
Eluard Luchell McDaniel

Creator:

Kanaga, Consuelo, 1894-1978.

Date:

1931

Format:

Still image

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51.
Eluard Luchell McDaniel seated with his arms around the back of a wooden chair

Creator:

Kanaga, Consuelo, 1894-1978.

Date:

1931

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52.
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, team, 1931

Creator:

Standard Photo Service Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1931

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53.
Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson in 1931

Creator:

Ben.

Date:

1931

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Still image

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54.
Robert Henry, Jr. in front of woman and stone steps

Date:

1931

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Still image

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55.
Thousands of interested spectators watching eighty colored believers in the old-fashioned gospel, wade into the waters of the Potomac River to take part in the time-honored ceremony which attends the wholesale baptism

Date:

June 30, 1931

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Still image

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56.
African American man, with a child sitting on his knee

Creator:

Stewart Studio.

Date:

April 8, 1932

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Still image

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57.
A group of African American men with musical instruments in front of a building with brick pillars with a man in a suit seated in a chair

Date:

between 1932 and 1935

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Still image

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58.
Lil Armstrong's (stage) orchestra starting tour at Kendonne Theater, Buffalo (N.Y.)

Date:

1932

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Still image

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59.
Signed picture of Lucius Venable Lucky Millinder conducting for Billy

Date:

1932

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60.
Signed picture of Uncle Fred to Camille

Creator:

Aticell, H. A.

Date:

August 23, 1932

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Still image

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61.
Blake, Eubie, Detroit, Michigan, 1933

Date:

1933

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62.
Dancers in leopard spot skin costumes

Date:

October 18, 1933

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63.
Earl Hines and band sitting near stage

Creator:

Besoiy.

Date:

April 2, 1934

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64.
Mary McLeod Bethune and Roland Hayes, standing in front of a building

Date:

1934

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65.
Prophet Noble Drew Ali Reincarnated and the Moorish Science Temple of America

Creator:

Barnard Studio (Chicago, Ill.)

Date:

August 1934

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66.
Schoolchildren and teacher in front of a rural school house in Georgia

Creator:

Song Shot Service.

Date:

1934

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67.
African American man and women standing on the front steps of a building

Date:

1935

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68.
An African American man in a white tuxedo

Date:

May 23, 1935

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Still image

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69.
An autographed picture of the Four Ink-Spots musical group performing on 5/18/35

Date:

May 18, 1935

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70.
Charles Gideons, J.W. Walker and co-workers : insurance group

Date:

January 13, 1935

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Still image

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71.
The double roll - Bill Robinson, noted Negro dancer appearing in Paramount's The Big Broadcast of 1935, shows how to do it with pictures

Date:

July 20, 1935

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Still image

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72.
Jimmy Claybrooks & his Rythm Aces, posing with their instruments, in Laurella Studio, De Soto, Mo.

Date:

1935

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Still image

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73.
Les Hite's Orchestra : autographed photo from Marvin to Jim

Date:

1935

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74.
Police escorting a bloody African American man with injuries past a telephone booth, during the Harlem Race Riots

Date:

1935

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75.
Portrait of Louis Armstrong in a suit playing a trumpet

Date:

1935

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Still image

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76.
Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) and Leroy Carr : Chicago (Ill.)

Creator:

Driggs, Frank.

Date:

1935

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Still image

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77.
Woman and an African American man with their arms around each others waists

Creator:

Shot Service (Atlanta, Ga.)

Date:

May 18, 1935

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78.
Wounded African American man being escorted by police during the Harlem Race Riots

Date:

March 20, 1935

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79.
Hemsley Winfield and group of Negro dancers performing Life and Death from opera Emperor Jones

Creator:

Anderson, Martinus.

Date:

1936

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Still image

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80.
Jesse Owens, landing after a jump, at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin

Creator:

Schirner.

Date:

1936

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81.
Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe and others racing in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, before an audience

Creator:

Atlantic-Photo G.m.b.H.

Date:

1936

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82.
John Woodruff and other men running a race at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, before an audience

Creator:

Schirner.

Date:

1936

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83.
Man with fist up and sign that says N.R.A., We Will Never Forget

Creator:

Seltzer, Leo.

Date:

1936

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84.
Plowing land with disc plows for Tung Groves, 1936

Date:

1936

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85.
Seven men dressed in suits, including J. Mercer Bursell and J. Finley Wilson, and an African American woman in a dress standing behind a table with paintings on the wall behind them

Date:

April 26, 1936

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Still image

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86.
Walter White, Royal Wilkins, William Patterson, and other women and children posing in front of a Coca Cola advertisement in 1936

Date:

1936

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87.
The 11th annual Tuskegee Relay team posing with their trophies

Date:

May 8, 1937

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88.
An African American man in a suit writing at a desk with a trophy

Creator:

Littlejohn, C.

Date:

February 18, 1937

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89.
Father Divine found hiding in cellar -- Three Milford officers ended a two-day search for Father Major J. Divine when they found the bald, Negro spiritual leader, who says he is God, hiding behind the furnace in the cellar

Date:

April 22, 1937

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90.
Floyd Ray and his orchestra : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)

Date:

April 19, 1937

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91.
Post-graduate class of Provident Hospital, Chicago, watching doctor and nurse perform surgery

Date:

July 13, 1937

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92.
Southwest Co-Champions 1937, of Arkansas State A.M.&N. College

Date:

1937

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93.
African American men, women and children at the feast in honor of the ninth anniversary of the reincarnation of the Prophet Noble Drew Ali

Date:

August 7, 1938

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94.
Andrew Cooks and 1st watermelons

Creator:

Mazmanian.

Date:

May 1938

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95.
Four African American men unloading bricks from a brick car

Date:

July 18, 1938

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96.
Georgia Dental Society, 2nd Annual Meeting, Charity Hospital, Savannah, Georgia, May 9-11, 1938

Creator:

Daltz Studio (Savannah, Ga.)

Date:

May 1938

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97.
Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson in Spain, Civil War, 1938

Date:

1938

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98.
Paul Robeson in a suit and hat with an overcoat over his arm and Mrs. Haldave on a street in Madrid with workmen walking by

Date:

1938

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99.
Paul Robeson in a suit and hat with an overcoat over his arm standing on a street in Spain with a man in uniform

Date:

1938

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100.
Supreme Council Northern Jurisdiction U.S.A., 47th Annual Session, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 9-10, 1938 [panorama]

Creator:

Atlantic Foto Service.

Date:

May 1938

Format:

Still image

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