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101.
Johanna Baker singing holding a microphone at a Black nite club

Date:

1940s

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102.
Miss Augusta Savage with members of the Art Crafts Guild

Creator:

Berkley.

Date:

1940

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103.
Picture of Billie Holiday in a dress with Jimmy Powell holding an alto saxophone, Roy Eldridge playing a trumpet, Sonny White playing the piano and John Williams with all the men wearing suits and three of them wearing hats

Date:

1940

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104.
Side view of Sarah Vaughan wearing a dress singing behind a microphone

Date:

1940s

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105.
Three women, one holding dog, another holding baby

Creator:

Kodatone.

Date:

July 29, 1940

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106.
Vocalion recording session with Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Billie Holliday singing, Jimmy Powell and Carl Frye on alto sax, Kermit Scott on tenor sax, Sonny White on piano, Lawrence Lucie on guitar, John Williams on bass and Doc West on drums

Date:

February 29, 1940

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107.
An young African American woman wearing a skirt, blouse and jacket standing by the steps in front of a hair cutting parlor

Date:

May 28, 1940

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108.
Madam C.J. Walker College of Beauty Culture Graduation Class, March 26th 1939

Creator:

Madam C.J. Walker College of Beauty Culture (Kansas City, Mo.)

Date:

March 26, 1939

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109.
Silas Green Band in front of train car in 1939 with Native American entertainer

Date:

December 2, 1939

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110.
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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111.
African American woman wearing a dress and fur coat

Date:

1938

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112.
Black Women's Sorority Sigma Gamma Rho closed banquet

Date:

December 29, 1938

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113.
Women of the A.E.A.O.N.M.S. Daugthers of Isis headquarters

Date:

August 14, 1938

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114.
Floyd Ray and his orchestra : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)

Date:

April 19, 1937

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115.
Post-graduate class of Provident Hospital, Chicago, watching doctor and nurse perform surgery

Date:

July 13, 1937

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116.
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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117.
African American man and women standing on the front steps of a building

Date:

1935

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118.
Apex class of 1935, Newark, N.J.

Date:

1935

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119.
Portrait of an African American woman

Date:

May 18, 1935

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120.
Portrait of an African American woman holding flowers

Date:

November 24, 1935

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121.
Portrait of Maxine Maxwell

Date:

1935

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122.
Portrait of Adelaide Hall in a dress with her hands crossed on her left shoulder and below her face

Creator:

Gibson (Chicago)

Date:

April 9, 1934

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123.
Portrait of an older African American woman

Creator:

Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942.

Date:

1934

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124.
Schoolchildren and teacher in front of a rural school house in Georgia

Creator:

Song Shot Service.

Date:

1934

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125.
Signed picture of a woman in a sweater to her mother

Date:

December 1934

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126.
African American women and girls wearing dresses, posing in front of a building

Date:

October 21, 1933

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127.
Dancers in leopard spot skin costumes

Date:

October 18, 1933

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128.
Signed picture of Daisy to Billy White

Creator:

Hivoly (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Date:

1933

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129.
Aphonso Trent's Orchestra in Memphis, Tenn., 1932

Creator:

Jones-Purdyes Photographers.

Date:

1932

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130.
Lil Armstrong's (stage) orchestra starting tour at Kendonne Theater, Buffalo (N.Y.)

Date:

1932

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131.
Portrait of a young African American woman

Creator:

Radd.

Date:

June 9, 1932

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132.
African American women basketball team with their coach

Date:

1931

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133.
Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson in 1931

Creator:

Ben.

Date:

1931

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134.
Portrait of an African American woman wearing a scarf around her neck

Creator:

Divoli Photo Studio.

Date:

1931

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135.
Portrait of an African American woman wearing a scarf around her neck

Creator:

Divoli Photo Studio.

Date:

1931

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136.
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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137.
African American women sitting on a sofa, with more women standing behind them, in the Selambra Club, New York

Date:

1930

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138.
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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139.
Portrait of Willa, an African American woman

Date:

1930

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140.
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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141.
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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142.
Man and woman walking in the street

Creator:

Star Photos.

Date:

January 5, 1929

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143.
Portrait of Adelaide Hall wearing a dress and hat

Creator:

Ebue Studio (N.Y.)

Date:

1929

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144.
Portrait of Edna Wise Barr, broadway star

Creator:

Canell Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1929

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145.
African American woman holding dolls

Creator:

Walery.

Date:

1927

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146.
On the levee : Mississippi flood, 1927

Creator:

Coovert's Studio (Memphis, Tenn.)

Date:

1927

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147.
Knoxville Colored High School class of '26

Creator:

Browder's Studio.

Date:

1926

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148.
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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149.
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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150.
Students posing with diplomas and flowers at Boggs School, GA

Date:

1925

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151.
Vernan Hughes on xylophone, playing with band

Date:

1924

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152.
Delta Chapter sorority

Date:

1923

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153.
J. Finley Wilson dressed in an overcoat and hat standing next to an old style car with an African American woman inside the car, in front of steps leading up to a brick building

Creator:

Webster Photo.

Date:

1923

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154.
African American contestants in the Miss Fort Valley competition

Date:

June 13, 1922

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155.
A group of actors and actress and African American musicians on stage

Date:

1922

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156.
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

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157.
Tulsa Race Riots : African American man standing on the back of a truck, with a dead body laying in front of him, with African American men and women in the background, walking up steps towards a door

Date:

1921

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158.
Virginia Moore Hughes and Mrs. Lorenzo Coles wearing dresses, one seated on a bench and the other holding violin and bow

Date:

December 11, 1921

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159.
Men and women in cap and gowns on graduation day

Creator:

McNeill, Robert H. and McNeill News Photo Service (Washington, D.C.)

Date:

1920

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160.
Mr. Earle and woman standing in a pharmacy in Brooklyn

Date:

1920s to 1930s

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161.
Picture of Lucille Hegamin wearing a dress standing sideways

Creator:

Elcha (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1920s

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162.
African American woman wearing a coat and hat

Date:

January 27, 1918

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163.
Portrait of Inez Clough, broadway star

Creator:

Canell Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1917 approx.

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164.
Portrait of an African American man in suit and hat with an African American woman in a dress and hat

Creator:

O Studio.

Date:

1916

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165.
Young African American men and women of Hygienic Public School choir

Date:

1915

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166.
African American man being lynched

Date:

August 22, 1913

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167.
Portrait of Blanche Thompson, posing on a chair

Date:

1910 approx.

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168.
Roosevelt speaking at National Negro Business League

Creator:

Culver Pictures, Inc. (New York)

Date:

1910

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169.
African American men and women crossing the street next to the Monumental A.M.E. Church, in Steelton, Pennsylvania

Date:

1907

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170.
The Baltimore Orioles women's basketball team holding a trophy

Creator:

Penn Studio.

Date:

April 4, 1907

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171.
Portrait of Blanche Thompson in a dress and J. Homer Tutt in a suit

Date:

between 1904 and 1906

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172.
Weighing up the cotton at dinner hour

Creator:

Graves, C. H. (Carleton H.), -1943.

Date:

1900

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173.
Small log cabin on the grounds of Biltmore House, with men, women, and children doing various jobs

Creator:

Lindsey, T. H. (Thomas H.)

Date:

1897

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174.
The living skeleton : African American women and children on a porch

Creator:

Campbell, Alfred S.

Date:

1896 approx.

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175.
Blackberries and milk : African American mother with two children

Creator:

Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Date:

1894 approx.

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176.
Three African American men, one woman and two children standing and sitting outside a log cabin in Jacksonville, Fla. in 1893

Creator:

O. Pierre Havens.

Date:

1893

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177.
An African American woman in a dress carrying a U.S. flag standing underneath a tree next to an elderly woman seated in a chair with a child standing in front of her with a dirt road and house behind them

Date:

1888

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178.
African American men and women posing in a line, in front of a building

Date:

November 15, 1885

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179.
Cotton gin in full blast, Florida

Creator:

Kilburn Brothers.

Date:

1879

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180.
Women and girls picking cotton

Creator:

Wilson & Co. (Savannah, Ga.)

Date:

June 4, 1865

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181.
Coloured school at Alexandria Va. 1864 taught by Harriet Jacobs & daughter agents of New York Friends

Date:

1864

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182.
20th Century Melody Orchestra, Charelston (S.C.)

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unknown

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183.
A. Walker wearing a dress and hat carrying a suitcase and purse standing in front of some wooden stairs leading up to the door of a house

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unknown

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184.
Advertising : Dreft laundry detergent

Creator:

Woodard, V. F.

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unknown

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185.
An African American actor and actress in Run Little Children in Los Angeles, Calif.

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unknown

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186.
An African American boy in a tuxedo carrying a cushion with a ring and an African American girl in a dress carrying a basket walking together down an aisle between African Americans seated in pews

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unknown

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187.
African American boy on a tricycle and a woman in fur clothes

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unknown

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188.
African American boys and girls sitting in pews for Sunday school, with adults sitting and standing in the back

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unknown

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189.
African American boys and girls sitting on a bench, with men and women standing behind them, in front of a church building

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unknown

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190.
An African American bride and groom sitting cutting their wedding cake

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Pittsburgh Home Photographer.

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unknown

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191.
An African American bride, groom and their wedding party, with the women in pink, green yellow, purple and blue dresses [hand colored]

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unknown

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192.
African American children in front of Vine Memorial Baptist Church

Creator:

Moorer.

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unknown

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193.
African American children, men and women in front of a church in Augusta, Ga.

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unknown

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194.
African American choir singing in front of a group in a church

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unknown

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195.
African American church singers in front of pipe organ

Creator:

Moorer.

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unknown

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196.
African American civil rights worker Vivian Carter Mason sitting on a bench

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unknown

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197.
African American cooks making sandwiches behind a counter, while African American men and women sit in front of them

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unknown

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198.
African American couple

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Eve's Photo Gallery.

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unknown

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199.
African American dentist training his dental assistants

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unknown

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200.
African American dentist with patient in dental office

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unknown

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