Library: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library / Genre: black-and-white photographs / Subject - Geographic: Philadelphia (Pa.) / Access: Public

1.
African American boxer putting on his gloves, while a man plays a violin in the boxing ring

Creator:: Peace Photo (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

2.
African American children and young adults sitting in a church building, in front of organ pipes

Creator:: Kutcher, B. F.
Date:: 1925
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

3.
African American children in front of Vine Memorial Baptist Church

Creator:: Moorer.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

4.
African American church singers in front of pipe organ

Creator:: Moorer.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

5.
African American family, with man giving woman a plate of food, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Creator:: Harper, Park B.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

6.
African American letter carrier wearing his uniform, holding mail

Creator:: Scott (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

7.
African American man and young man making shoes

Creator:: Bryson, S. K.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

8.
An African American man in a suit with a bow tie playing a grand piano with his left hand raised

Creator:: Stanley Photo Service.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

9.
An African American man in a suit with a checkered shirt and a hat sleeping in a chair next to a brick wall

Creator:: Bryson, S.K.
Date:: May 21, 1959
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

10.
An African American man in a tuxedo standing arm in arm with an African American American woman in a room at the base of a staircase flanked by an African American man in a tuxedo and an African American woman in a dress

Creator:: Moorer.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

11.
African American man singing into a microphone, with a band playing behind him

Creator:: Eduardo.
Date:: January 31, year unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

12.
African American men and women around a table

Creator:: Mosley.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

13.
African American men and women at one long table with party streamers above them

Creator:: Hooper, Wert S.
Date:: May 26, 1952
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

14.
African American men and women at Rev. and Mrs. Trapp's 2nd anniversary celebration

Creator:: Moorer.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

15.
African American men and women at the 2nd anniversary of Rev. and Mrs. Trapp

Creator:: Moorer.
Date:: October 8, year unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

16.
African American men playing instruments on stage in front of a crowded room of people sitting at tables

Creator:: Silver, Earl.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

17.
African American men posing together

Creator:: Standard Photo Service (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

18.
African American men standing behind the counter in a general store

Creator:: Mosley, John W.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

19.
African American woman giving an award to a group of men and women inside a church

Creator:: Moorer.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

20.
An African American woman holding a bouquet of flowers, and an African American man wearing a suit, dressed as royalty with capes and crowns seated on chairs with three African American women in dresses standing behind them

Creator:: Bryson, S.K.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

21.
African American woman in robes holding a book and one finger pointed up

Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

22.
An African American woman wearing a dress, seated with a young girl wearing a dress with bows on her shoulders standing next to her [hand colored]

Creator:: Broadbent & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

23.
African American women in robes around the church pulpit

Creator:: Poindexter, Carl.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

24.
African American women inside a church

Creator:: Moorer.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

25.
African American women singing in a choir on stage, with a band playing in front of them, and an audience watching from below

Creator:: Poindexter, Carl.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

26.
African American women sitting in front of an African American choir, with people watching from pews, inside a church

Creator:: Moorer.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

27.
Autographed photograph of Daisy Mae & her Hepcats : to Nikki

Creator:: Condax Studios.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

28.
Back of short haired woman with necklace

Creator:: Brown's Photo Service.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

29.
Banquet - Smoker, 20th Annual Grand Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, Philadelphia, PA. Dec. 27-31, 1930

Creator:: Penn Photo Service.
Date:: December 1930
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

30.
Barber cutting a man's hair.

Creator:: Poindexter, Carl.
Date:: 1949
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

31.
A bedroom with dresses hung from the window and door frames, a bed with no covers in the middle a dresser against one wall with a mirror on top and the reflection of an African American man in a suit and an African American woman in a dress

Creator:: Moorer.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

32.
Beulah Frazier, Philly Ed, Ad Reoden or Mark Hyme and other musicians playing in nightclub in Philadelphia, Pa.

Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

33.
Billie Holiday in a dress standing with Louis Armstrong, Lawrence Owens and James Norris wearing suits

Creator:: Hooper, Wert.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

34.
Billy Dupree holding record leaning on a desk with microphone in front of him at WHAT radio station

Creator:: Bell Photographers.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

35.
Billy Kings Players scene in Heis Lash Sui

Creator:: Sommer Studio.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

36.
Billy Kings Players, Hattie McIntosh, Howard Kelly and another man in His last sin

Creator:: Sommer Studio.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

37.
Billy Kings Players, six actresses in dresses

Creator:: Sommer Studio.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

38.
Black physicians in Philadelphia, circa 1950

Date:: 1950 approx.
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

39.
Black Star Liner Yarmouth : first ship owned and manned by colored men

Creator:: Empire Studio.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

40.
Blind Tom seated on a padded stool with his right hand stuck inside his jacket

Creator:: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

41.
A blonde Helen Curl Harris with Ella Fitzgerald

Creator:: Mosley, John W.
Date:: 1961
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

42.
Bobby The Sheik Walker in turban with guitar

Creator:: Burton, E.
Date:: March 14, year unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

43.
Boy seated on an ottoman next to a table with a model train set in a living room

Creator:: Moorer (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

44.
Bunny Briggs dancing

Creator:: Jas. Reegsmanns.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

45.
Children opening gifts at a birthday party

Creator:: Bryson, S. K.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

46.
Children opening gifts at a birthday party

Creator:: Bryson, S. K.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

47.
Children posing in front of a curtain

Creator:: Moorer (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

48.
Christmas celebration of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, Alpha Boule_

Creator:: Brown's Photo Service.
Date:: December 25, 1961
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

49.
Churches of the Lord Jesus Christ, Parade of the 16th National Convention of the, 22nd and Bainbridge Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1951

Creator:: Bell Photo (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: October 6, 1951
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

50.
Clara Ward holding paper with an African American man next to podium

Creator:: Brown's Photo Service.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

51.
Class of June 1947 : Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Creator:: Penn Photo Studio
Date:: June 1947
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

52.
Cornelius Page, Maitlon Russell with friends on 15th and Catherine St. in Philadelphia, Pa., 1929

Date:: 1929
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

53.
Cornelius Page, Maitlon Russell with friends on 15th and Catherine St. in Philadelphia, Pa., 1929

Date:: 1929
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

54.
Count Basie with sailor Robert Smith at the South Broad St. USO Club

Creator:: Mosley, John W.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

55.
Dr. Clarke and staff in Philadelphia

Date:: October 21, 1944
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

56.
Dr. Henry and other doctors at awards ceremony

Creator:: Mosely , John W.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

57.
Dr. Henry at Philadelphia.

Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

58.
Dr. Robert Henry and other doctors on stairs outside of building in Philadelphia, Pa.

Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

59.
Eddie Woodland and band

Date:: March 15, year unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

60.
First African Baptist Church, Revival Chorus of the, Under the direction of Prof. E. Clifford Davis, Nationally known choir director and song writer of Chicago, Illinois, Madame Mary Johnson Davis, soloist, Rev. W.A. Harrod, DD, Pastor, 16th and Christian Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 19-April 2, 1939

Creator:: Standard Photo Service Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: 1939
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

61.
First-aid class of African American nurses and a doctor

Creator:: Mosley, John W.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

62.
Five African American boys on 15th and Catherine St., Philadelphia, Pa., 1929

Date:: 1929
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

63.
Five men and woman around Mr. Jackson's desk

Creator:: Ensminger Studio.
Date:: October 12, 1944
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

64.
Four African American wearing suits and talking in Philadelphia, Pa.

Creator:: Miller, Sam.
Date:: April 13, 1969
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

65.
Four African American women and one man wearing society fezzes

Creator:: Hooper, Wert S.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

66.
Four men holding award for the Olde Philadelphia Club

Creator:: Smith's Photo Service.
Date:: December 25, 1961
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

67.
Four men holding award for the Olde Philadelphia Club at Christmas

Creator:: Smith's Photo Service.
Date:: December 25, 1961
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

68.
Four men of the Olde Philadelphia Club looking at a piece of paper

Creator:: Smith's Photo Service.
Date:: February 1962
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

69.
Four women and one man posing on chair in front of a curtain

Creator:: Mosley, John W.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

70.
Four women and two girls on stairs

Creator:: Hooper, Wert.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

71.
Four women by TV camera and sign that says The M.T. Show

Creator:: Hall, Ruben E.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

72.
Fred Collins, Sam Alexander, and Robert Day on 15th and Catherine St. in Philadelpia, Pa., 1929

Date:: 1929
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

73.
Funeral service for an African American man

Creator:: Brown Studio (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

74.
Funeral service for an African American man

Creator:: Brown Studio (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

75.
Funeral service for an African American woman

Creator:: Bryson, S. K.
Date:: September 2, 1954
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

76.
Funeral service for an African American woman

Creator:: Moorer (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

77.
Funeral service for an African American woman

Creator:: Moorer (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

78.
Girl kneeling on a bench

Creator:: Pasadena Photos.
Date:: May 1950
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

79.
Gospel singers Mrs. Josephine McDowell, Mrs. Bernie Coles and Mrs. Margaret Wells Allison next to Chilton West on piano

Creator:: Bryson, S. K.
Date:: August 30, 1954
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

80.
A group of African American men and a boy, many holding rifles, with a stuffed bird and racoon on the floor

Creator:: Moorer.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

81.
A group of eleven African American women in dresses and hats, six seated, four standing behind them and one standing in front with a paper in her hand

Creator:: Bryson, S.K.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

82.
Group of men in A.E.A.O.N.M.S. fezzes with a fake sword

Creator:: Hooper, Wert S.
Date:: December 9, 1953
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

83.
Group of men in suits and bow ties in banquet room

Creator:: Mosley, John W.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

84.
A group of men in suits, hats and coats, and a woman in a dress, coat and hat, all seated in deck chairs with blankets over their legs, on a veranda with an African American man in uniform standing nearby

Creator:: Wallace, Philip B.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

85.
A group of men in tank tops and shorts at the Philadelphia Area Athletic Club

Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

86.
Group of people at banquet

Creator:: Mosely , John W.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

87.
Group of people outside the dental office of C.R. Harrison in Philadelphia, Pa.

Creator:: Sykes, P. C.
Date:: 1907
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

88.
Group photo of Sydney G. King and Sydney G. King's School of Dance in costume

Creator:: Hall and Hall Photo Service.
Date:: August 27, 1949
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

89.
Group shot of a society dressed up in crowns

Creator:: Smith's Photo Service.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

90.
Group shot of William B. Hanna School, class of '58 on playground

Creator:: Moorer (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: June 1958
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

91.
Hazel Scott in a dress and a fur lined coat, Charles McClane and Congressman Adam Clayton in suits standing together in front of a door

Creator:: Peace Photo (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date:: October 4, year unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

92.
Helen Curl Harris combing customer's hair

Creator:: Hall, Ruben E.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

93.
Helen Curl Harris doing hair of a customer

Creator:: Hall, Ruben E.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

94.
Helen Curl Harris doing lips of customer

Creator:: Hall, Ruben E.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

95.
Helen Curl Harris next to TV camera and sign that says The M.T. Show

Creator:: Hall, Ruben E.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

96.
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
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

97.
J. Finley Wilson in a suit and lodge hat & his wife in a dress and hat with two other African American men standing between two cars

Creator:: Kutcher, B. F.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

98.
James Herring, Josephine Bakery, Dox Thrash and a man of the Pyramid Club

Creator:: Chew, Amos C.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

99.
Jerry Tapps dancing

Creator:: Tanlee Photo.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

100.
Johnnie Hughes Combo : Philadelphia Pa.

Creator:: Photo Art Studios.
Date:: October 29, 1949
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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