Format: Still image / Genre: black-and-white photographs / Subject - Topics: African American women. / Rights Status: Copyright Undetermined / Access: Public

1.
Mr. Earle and woman standing in a pharmacy in Brooklyn

Date:: 1920s to 1930s
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

2.
Picture of Lucille Hegamin wearing a dress standing sideways

Creator:: Elcha (New York, N.Y.)
Date:: 1920s
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

3.
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
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

4.
Students posing with diplomas and flowers at Boggs School, GA

Date:: 1925
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

5.
Knoxville Colored High School class of '26

Creator:: Browder's Studio.
Date:: 1926
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

6.
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
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

7.
African American woman holding dolls

Creator:: Walery.
Date:: 1927
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

8.
On the levee : Mississippi flood, 1927

Creator:: Coovert's Studio (Memphis, Tenn.)
Date:: 1927
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

9.
African American men and women at the State Association in Marion, S.C. on June 18-20, 1929

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

10.
Group picture of Universal Life Insurance Co. stock holders in front of entrance to the home office of Universal Life Insurance Co.

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

11.
Man and woman walking in the street

Creator:: Star Photos.
Date:: January 5, 1929
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

12.
Portrait of Adelaide Hall wearing a dress and hat

Creator:: Ebue Studio (N.Y.)
Date:: 1929
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

13.
Portrait of Edna Wise Barr, broadway star

Creator:: Canell Studio (New York, N.Y.)
Date:: 1929
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

14.
African American women sitting on a sofa, with more women standing behind them, in the Selambra Club, New York

Date:: 1930
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

15.
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
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

16.
Portrait of Willa, an African American woman

Date:: 1930
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

17.
African American women basketball team with their coach

Date:: 1931
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

18.
Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson in 1931

Creator:: Ben.
Date:: 1931
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

19.
Portrait of an African American woman wearing a scarf around her neck

Creator:: Divoli Photo Studio.
Date:: 1931
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

20.
Portrait of an African American woman wearing a scarf around her neck

Creator:: Divoli Photo Studio.
Date:: 1931
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

21.
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
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

22.
Aphonso Trent's Orchestra in Memphis, Tenn., 1932

Creator:: Jones-Purdyes Photographers.
Date:: 1932
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

23.
Lil Armstrong's (stage) orchestra starting tour at Kendonne Theater, Buffalo (N.Y.)

Date:: 1932
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

24.
Portrait of a young African American woman

Creator:: Radd.
Date:: June 9, 1932
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

25.
African American women and girls wearing dresses, posing in front of a building

Date:: October 21, 1933
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

26.
Dancers in leopard spot skin costumes

Date:: October 18, 1933
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

27.
Signed picture of Daisy to Billy White

Creator:: Hivoly (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Date:: 1933
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

28.
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
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

29.
Portrait of an older African American woman

Creator:: Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942.
Date:: 1934
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

30.
Schoolchildren and teacher in front of a rural school house in Georgia

Creator:: Song Shot Service.
Date:: 1934
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

31.
Signed picture of a woman in a sweater to her mother

Date:: December 1934
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

32.
African American man and women standing on the front steps of a building

Date:: 1935
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

33.
Apex class of 1935, Newark, N.J.

Date:: 1935
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

34.
Portrait of an African American woman

Date:: May 18, 1935
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

35.
Portrait of an African American woman holding flowers

Date:: November 24, 1935
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

36.
Portrait of Maxine Maxwell

Date:: 1935
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

37.
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
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

38.
Floyd Ray and his orchestra : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)

Date:: April 19, 1937
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

39.
Post-graduate class of Provident Hospital, Chicago, watching doctor and nurse perform surgery

Date:: July 13, 1937
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

40.
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
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

41.
African American woman wearing a dress and fur coat

Date:: 1938
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

42.
Black Women's Sorority Sigma Gamma Rho closed banquet

Date:: December 29, 1938
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

43.
Women of the A.E.A.O.N.M.S. Daugthers of Isis headquarters

Date:: August 14, 1938
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

44.
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
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

45.
Silas Green Band in front of train car in 1939 with Native American entertainer

Date:: December 2, 1939
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

46.
Group of women, one girl and one man behind bushes but in front of building

Date:: 1940s
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

47.
Johanna Baker singing holding a microphone at a Black nite club

Date:: 1940s
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

48.
Miss Augusta Savage with members of the Art Crafts Guild

Creator:: Berkley.
Date:: 1940
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

49.
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
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

50.
Side view of Sarah Vaughan wearing a dress singing behind a microphone

Date:: 1940s
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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