1. Charlie Persip playing a drum set in front of a stack of amplifiers Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1982 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
2. Melba Liston in performance at Sweet Basil, NYC, playing trombone Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1981 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
3. Abdullah Ibrahim, formerly Dollar Brand, at piano Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1977 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
4. Hamiet Bluiett with saxophone Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1977 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
5. Headshot of Sun Ra in hat Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1977 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
6. 143 Street, and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard with a large group of African American men with graffiti on the walls of buildings, a car parked on the edge of the street, trash in the gutter and an advertisement for Salem cigarettes Creator: Harris Photo. Date: August 23, 1976 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
7. Archie Shepp with saxophone Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1976 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
8. Don Moye with face painted and bells on neck Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1975 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
9. Jackie McLean blowing saxophone Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1975 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
10. Lester Bowie with trumpet with the Art Ensemble of Chicago Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1975 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
11. Malachi Favors with face painted Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1975 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
12. Calvin Alston and Dorothy Brown holding sign protesting school budget cut Creator: Harris Photo. Date: February 21, 1974 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
13. Jack DeJohnette plays electric piano during a seminar Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1974 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
14. Ronald Coaxum, Frankie Hall, and John Tolbert standing on a street-corner with raised left fists Creator: Harris Photo. Date: September 9, 1974 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
15. Boys around a ladder to a traffic light Creator: Harris Photo. Date: July 1, 1973 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
16. Frank Clayton playing double bass with Karl Berger Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1973 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
17. Lyle Russell Cedric Skitch Henderson and Kwame N. Krumah greeting with employees of the N.Y. Amsterdam News Creator: Harris Photo. Date: June 13, 1973 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
18. They'll be heard, these two women Creator: Harris Photo. Date: March 27, 1973 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
19. African American children leaving building surrounded by adults Creator: Harris Photo. Date: November 1, 1972 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
20. Gospel party with old couple and four children Creator: Harris Photo. Date: November 4, 1972 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
21. Group photo of Brotherhood Youth Movement Creator: Harris Photo. Date: June 12, 1972 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
22. Men in front of booth that says War Wagon Creator: Harris Photo. Date: September 25, 1972 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
23. Three adults and children with signs supporting the Parents' Slate Creator: Harris Photo. Date: October 7, 1972 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
24. Art Farmer playing a trumpet Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1971 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
25. Group of adults with childen planting and watering flowers Creator: Harris Photo. Date: June 11, 1971 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
26. Louis Armstrong in an open casket with a trumpet laid on top at 7th Reg't Armory Park Ave. Creator: DeMaria (Mass.) Date: July 8, 1971 Format: Still image Access: Public
27. Red Garland with sunglasses on Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1971 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
28. Sunday school of New York on parade Creator: Harris Photo. Date: June 5, 1971 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
29. Teacher and students painting names on paper on wall Creator: Harris Photo. Date: July 19, 1971 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
30. Victoria Spivey wearing a sweater seated at a piano with a microphone next to her and a guitar laying on top of the piano Creator: Sh. Date: April 9, 1971 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
31. Woman at desk with book and boy Creator: New York. Board of Education. Date: April 23, 1970 Format: Still image Access: Public
32. Jack De Johnette drums on stage for Miles Davis at Rutgers Jazz Festival, 1969 Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1969 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
33. James Moody with saxophone Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1968 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
34. Paul Chambers with double bass Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: June 5, 1966 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
35. Drummer Rashied Ali plays tenor sax in the study of Archie Shepp Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1965 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
37. Portrait of Marion Brown Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1965 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
38. Sunny Murray laughing Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1965 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
39. Lonnie Johnson playing guitar at Gerde's Folk City (New York, N.Y.) Date: March 5, 1964 Format: Still image Access: Public
40. Randy Weston with sunglasses and sheet music Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: 1960 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
41. Art class fun (Janet Push & Gregory Reeves) Creator: Semple, Bob. Date: April 3, 1958 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
42. Big Bill Broonzy singing while playing a guitar Creator: Gahr, David. Date: 1958 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
43. James E. Jackson jr. under indictment since 1951 as a second string Communist arrives at Federal Court House, Foley Sq. to turn himself in Creator: Rosenberg, Ira. Date: December 3, 1955 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
44. Girls holding dolls, and a boy, all smiling in front of a fence Creator: Elizabeth Colman Photographic Portraits (New York, N.Y.) Date: September 1954 Format: Still image Access: Public
45. Four Tunes : African American singing group Creator: Kriegsman, James J. Date: 1953 approx. Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
46. Attorney Willard B. Ransom, now general manager of company delivers memorial eulogy at the grave of Mme. C.J. Walker in New York during the pilgrimage honoring her sponsored by the National Beauty Culturists League in 1951 Creator: Madam C.J. Walker College of Beauty Culture (Kansas City, Mo.) Date: 1951 Format: Still image Access: Public
47. Women walking with a man and a boy in suits and coats Creator: N.Y. Daily News Photo. Date: March 26, 1951 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
48. Portrait of Roy Brown, African American musician Creator: Kriegsmann, James J. Date: December 1, 1948 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
49. Consumers' Protective Committee members signing paper on table Creator: A. Hansen Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: December 10, 1947 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
50. Philly Ed and dancers in Balinese costume Creator: Smith, M. Date: November 15, 1947 Format: Still image Access: Public
51. Bill Robinson dancing Creator: Knopf, Hans. Date: 1946 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
52. Bill Robinson jumping Creator: Knopf, Hans. Date: 1946 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
53. Bill Robinson with three dancing children Creator: Knopf, Hans. Date: 1946 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
55. Short man in hat, gloves, and flower pinned to coat Creator: Lexington Photo Studios. Date: February 1, 1944 Format: Still image Access: Public
56. Billie Holliday, Babe Russin and orchestra performing at the Famous Doon Club, NYC Creator: Knopf, Hans J. Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
57. Lead Belly, shown from the back, playing for an audience Creator: Knopf, Hans. Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
59. Josh White, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie performing at Cafe_ Society in New York City Creator: Delta Haze Coporation. Date: 1940s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
60. Big Joe Turner at Cafe Society Creator: Welding, Pete. Date: 1939 to 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
61. Henry Armstrong and Barney Ross at their final weigh-in at the offices of the New York State Athletic Commission, before their schedule 15 round fight for the welterweight championship Creator: Associated Press Photo (N.Y.) Date: May 31, 1938 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
62. Jimmie and Margie dancing at Apollo Theatre Creator: Rossner, Harry. Date: July 14, 1938 Format: Still image Access: Public
63. Clyde Bernhardt, pseudonym Ed Barron, with trombone Creator: Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983. Date: 1937 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
64. Hemsley Winfield and group of Negro dancers performing Life and Death from opera Emperor Jones Creator: Anderson, Martinus. Date: 1936 Format: Still image Access: Public
65. Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra : autograph picture for Alice Dixon Creator: Oxley, Harold. Date: May 18, 1936 Format: Still image Access: Public
66. Man with fist up and sign that says N.R.A., We Will Never Forget Creator: Seltzer, Leo. Date: 1936 Format: Still image Access: Public
67. Bill Smith, Floyd Miller and Maxwell Baird posing nude in 1934 Creator: Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955. Date: 1934 Format: Still image Access: Reading Room Only
68. Bill Smith, Mathew Floyd and Maxwell Baird posing nude Creator: Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955. Date: 1934 Format: Still image Access: Reading Room Only
69. Pete, Peaches & Duke in tuxedos and top hats Creator: Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: April 10, 1934 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
70. King Oliver & his Harlem Syncopators Creator: Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983. Date: March 1931 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
71. Signed picture of Don Redman conducting for Alice Creator: Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1931 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
72. White statue of woman's face Creator: Ward, Dewitt. Date: October 6, 1931 Format: Still image Access: Public
73. Signed picture of Eubie Blake to Rames Creator: Knight Studio. Date: 1930 Format: Still image Access: Public
74. Portrait of Edna Wise Barr, broadway star Creator: Canell Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1929 Format: Still image Access: Public
75. Portrait of and African American man and woman with glasses holding a newspaper Creator: Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983. Date: 1928 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
76. Elizabeth Smith playing a guitar Creator: Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1927 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
77. Lucille Hegamin wearing a sleeveless dress surrounded by men in suits playing drums, a tuba, a trombone, a trumpet, a violin, a saxophone and a piano Creator: Elcha (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1921 Format: Still image Access: Public
78. Picture of Lucille Hegamin wearing a dress standing sideways Creator: Elcha (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1920s Format: Still image Access: Public
79. Portrait of Susie Sutton Creator: Reynold-Ward (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1920 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
80. Portrait of Inez Clough, broadway star Creator: Canell Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1917 approx. Format: Still image Access: Public
81. Men and women on a stage with circus props for the revue Broadway Rastus Creator: Hall's Studio. Date: 1915 Format: Still image Access: Public
82. Portrait of Bert Williams in a suit Creator: White (N.Y.) Date: January 18, 1912 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
83. Adelaide Hall in the revue Blackbirds of 1928 Creator: White Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
84. African American man Creator: Elcha (New York, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
85. African American man and woman in front of a prop door Creator: White Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
86. African American man and woman posing together Creator: Bell Studio (N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
87. An African American man in a suit, resting his arm on a chair Creator: Gem Art Studio (N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
88. African American man on stage with a puppet Creator: Elcha, Eduard. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
89. An African American man with a hat standing holding drumsticks with his left arm raised with a drum set behind him, two microphones to his right and the neck of a guitar showing on his left Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
90. African American men and women drinking at a bar, with bartenders working behind the bar Creator: Yates, Ted. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
91. African American musicians Creator: Kriegsmann, James. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
92. African American sculptor, Selma Burke, posing next to her sculpture of an African American man Creator: Horn, Pinchos. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
93. African American woman Creator: Elcha (New York, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
94. An African American woman wearing an evening gown, with her hands on her face Creator: Kriegsmann, James J. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
95. Aida Ward on stage Creator: White Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
96. Alex Bradford and his Bradford Specials at piano Creator: Kriegsmann, James J. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
97. Altouise Gole on stage, wearing an evening gown, with onlookers at tables Creator: Smalls Art Photo Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
98. Andrew Cyrille playing a drum set, while wearing headphones Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
99. Anthony Braxton with saxophone in front of microphone Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
100. Anthony Davis at piano Creator: Ross, Raymond. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required