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1.
Cotton gin in full blast, Florida

Creator:

Kilburn Brothers.

Date:

1879

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Two African American shoe shiners, sitting outside on boxes, shining shoes for two men

Date:

1895

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3.
African American men playing stringed instruments, with men and women surrounding them

Creator:

New York Photographing Co.

Date:

March 25, 1896

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Fine fish : men at a fish stall

Creator:

Campbell, Alfred S.

Date:

1896 approx.

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Dis am de mos' narrerest escape dis chile eber had : African American boy hiding behind a scarecrow

Creator:

Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Date:

1897 approx.

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Dis am de mos' narrerest escape dis chile eber had : African American boy hiding behind a scarecrow

Creator:

Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Date:

1897 approx.

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Golly! dis am cheaper dan twofers : African American boy smoking the cigar of a sleeping man

Creator:

Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd)

Date:

1897 approx.

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J. Finley Wilson in center, Arthur Riggs with crutches, and another man, all in suits standing behind a iron fence next to a brick building

Date:

1898

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Five men in a bar in Cheyenne Wyoming about 1900, with a mirror and cash register in the background

Date:

1900

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10.
Laying the cornerstone at Cheyney Colored Institute

Date:

October 4, 1903

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Laying the cornerstone of Cheyney Institute

Date:

October 4, 1903

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Men sitting in chairs in front of a building, holding a dog with men and women standing behind them

Date:

1903

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A group of workmen, standing and sitting on the dirt ground, in 1905.

Date:

1905 approx.

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14.
The class of 1907 from Leonard Medical School in Raleigh, N.C.

Date:

1907

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

Creator:

Sykes, P. C.

Date:

1907

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J. Frank Yealy and other pharmacists at Wilson's pharmacy on 10/22/1907 in Philadelphia

Date:

October 22, 1907

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17.
Grassland full of horses with some men and tents

Date:

1910 approx.

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18.
Two men talking to each other next to machinery in a United States Steel Corporation building

Date:

April 1, 1910

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19.
John Lange, Jr. and Blind Boone, posing in suits and coats, with one of them holding a cane

Creator:

Kansas City Sun.

Date:

December 5, 1914

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20.
Mill gang in Carson LA on Feb. 1914

Date:

February 1914

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21.
Soldiers posing together

Date:

1914

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Rev. P. Ndenzka Qumbu in Umtata, Transkei, South Africa with children, and other followers

Date:

July 1916

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23.
Boys and men during the East St. Louis race riots, watching a burning railroad car

Date:

1917

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24.
Group of men at equal rights rally in 1917

Date:

November 11, 1917

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25.
Unknown 12-string guitar player surrounded by men leaning over a wooden wall with two young African American men dancing in front of them

Date:

1918

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Unknown 12-string guitar player, 1918

Date:

1918

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27.
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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Nurses Ross, Johnson and Louise Clark attending to children at V.N.A. Dispensary in New Haven, Conn.

Date:

1921

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29.
A group of actors and actress and African American musicians on stage

Date:

1922

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30.
Mayor Freeland W. Kendrick, Florence Mills, and others in City Hall

Creator:

Royal & Standard Studios (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1925

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31.
An excavation for gasoline tanks for the Bethlehem Steel Co. on Dec. 9th 1927

Date:

December 9, 1927

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32.
A man conveying brick to bricklayers in Ohio on 01-12-1928

Date:

January 12, 1928

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33.
Men loading ore to car on May 8, 1928

Date:

May 8, 1928

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34.
An African American man jumping over a horizontal bar

Date:

June 1, 1930

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35.
Men and women at the 7th annual Christmas party of honor Bilt Products Co., Dec. 24th, 1931, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Creator:

Bell, D. Sargent.

Date:

December 24, 1931

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36.
Aphonso Trent's Orchestra in Memphis, Tenn., 1932

Creator:

Jones-Purdyes Photographers.

Date:

1932

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37.
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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38.
A large group of men and women standing outside, on the steps of, and on the sidewalk in front of the Elk's headquarters, Winter Capitol Lodge No. 595 New Orleans with a few cars and a motorcycle on the street

Date:

August 5, 1934

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39.
Pete, Peaches & Duke in tuxedos and top hats

Creator:

Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

April 10, 1934

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40.
Prophet Noble Drew Ali Reincarnated and the Moorish Science Temple of America

Creator:

Barnard Studio (Chicago, Ill.)

Date:

August 1934

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41.
Front of a hat store on Lenox Avenue in Harlem, after rioters hurled a basket through its window during the Harlem Race Riots

Date:

March 20, 1935

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Last rites : large crowd of men and women on a street for a funeral caravan

Date:

May 25, 1935

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43.
Man repairing a shoe stores damaged windows after the Harlem Race Riots, with men and women walking by

Date:

March 20, 1935

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44.
Men standing in front of a group of policemen during the Harlem Race Riots of 1935

Date:

March 20, 1935

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Policeman escorting a man in a building, in front of a broken display case, during the Harlem Riot of 1935

Date:

1935

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46.
Policeman holding a firearm, standing in a store smashed in by rioters and looter following the Harlem Race Riots

Date:

March 20, 1935

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47.
Territory salesman from Knoxville with African American young man

Date:

1935

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48.
Archie Williams, Godfrey Brown and other men running at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, with an audience watching

Creator:

Presse-Illustrationen Hoffmann.

Date:

1936

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49.
A crowd of men in suits at Black Legion arraignment

Creator:

Burgert.

Date:

May 28, 1936

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50.
Four men in suits standing in a meadow with tire tracks leading into the meadow

Creator:

Detroit & Michigan Newspictures.

Date:

June 9, 1936

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51.
Jesse Owens and Luz Long in 1936 in Berlin, after the long jump

Creator:

Dr. Wolff & Tritschler.

Date:

1936

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52.
Jesse Owens, landing after a jump, at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin

Creator:

Schirner.

Date:

1936

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53.
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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54.
Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra : autograph picture for Alice Dixon

Creator:

Oxley, Harold.

Date:

May 18, 1936

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55.
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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56.
Man, woman and two children at Merrimack River

Date:

1936

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57.
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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58.
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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59.
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

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60.
Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson in Spain, Civil War, 1938

Date:

1938

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61.
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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62.
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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63.
Group shot of the 26th annual session of the O.E.S. Oziel Grand Chapter in Atlantic City, N.J.

Creator:

Fred Hess & Son.

Date:

June 21, 1939

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64.
Musicians gathered around a piano in the Little Rathskeller club

Creator:

Strouse, Stanley.

Date:

June 8, 1939

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65.
Paul Robeson and another man on coal in The Proud Valley

Date:

1939

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66.
Twentieth Century-Fox presents Darryl F. Zanuck's production of Stanley and Livingstone : starring Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, with Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Hull, Henry Travers

Creator:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Date:

1939

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67.
Group of men and women in a small room looking at paintings

Date:

1940s to 1950s

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68.
King Biscuit Time : KFFA, Helena, Arkansas, early 1940's, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sam Anderson & Robert Jr. Lockwood

Creator:

Gladin, Ivey.

Date:

1940s

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King Biscuit Time : Sonny Boy Williamson and his band, featuring Pinetop Perkins playing in Helena, Arkansas

Creator:

Gladin's Studio.

Date:

1940 approx.

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70.
Madeleine Carrol and Fred Mac Murray in Virginia with Stirling Hayden, Helen Broderick, Marie Wilson, Carolyn Lee

Creator:

Paramount Pictures, Inc.

Date:

1940

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71.
Men and women in student desks in a decorated room

Creator:

Mosley.

Date:

1940s

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72.
Men and women lined up with luggage at a hotel desk

Date:

1940

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73.
Miss Augusta Savage with members of the Art Crafts Guild

Creator:

Berkley.

Date:

1940

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74.
United States Army, Coast Artillery Regiment, 76th (AA), Battery A, Fort Bragg, Captain H.F. Townsend, Commanding, North Carolina, October 2, 1940 [panorama]

Creator:

Parke, Leonard, Orlando (Fl.)

Date:

October 2, 1940

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75.
Ann Robinson in a dress singing at Village Vanguard Club in New York with men and women seated at tables behind her

Date:

1941

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76.
Billie Holiday in a dress performing at Famous Door Club in N.Y.C. with men and women seated at tables in the background

Date:

1941

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77.
Billie Holiday performing with Babe Russin and Orchestra at Famous Door Club in New York with a man in a suit and a woman in a dress seated at a table in front of her

Date:

1941

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78.
Men and women dancing the jitterbug at Madison Square Garden

Creator:

Knopf, Hans.

Date:

1941

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79.
United States Army, Training Regiment, 5th, Battery E., 16th Battalion, FARC, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, 2nd Cycle, Capt. B.W. Collins, Commanding, November 26, 1941 [panorama]

Creator:

Clements, Rell, Fayettville (N.C.)

Date:

November 26, 1941

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80.
Henrietta Miller seated in a chair with some men in suits and a woman in uniform seated in a row behind a desk below a USO banner and United States flag

Creator:

E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Date:

August 4, 1942

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81.
Howard Mitchell and Pitts Stickel running a race in Franklin Field Philadelphia on April 24th 1942

Date:

April 24, 1942

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82.
Men and women in lounge car of the train Congressional Limited

Date:

1942

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83.
A relay in April 14th, 1942 at Franklin Field, with Clarence Doak, Robert Pullmen, Warren Mengel, Edward Mars, Robert Connors, James Hart, George Spentek, C. Frederick Dye Jr. and Robert Ruskin

Date:

April 14, 1942

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84.
United States Army, Quartermaster Truck Battalion, 469th, Company E, August 25, 1943 [panorama]

Creator:

La Perla Studio.

Date:

August 25, 1943

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85.
Five men and woman around Mr. Jackson's desk

Creator:

Ensminger Studio.

Date:

October 12, 1944

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86.
Freddie Beshore in a boxing match with another man in Trinidad

Date:

August 1944

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Men, women, girls and boys at a confirmation with two robed men in front

Creator:

Lawson Foto.

Date:

1944

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88.
United States Army, Quartermaster Service Company, 3141st, Camp Ellis, Illinois, July 1944 [panorama]

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Spencer & Wyckoff, Camp Ellis Studio.

Date:

July 1944

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Unemployed people in line outside of the U.S. Employment office in Detroit, Mich., waiting for interviews in 1945

Creator:

Associated Press.

Date:

September 17, 1945

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Battalion receives Distinguished Unit Badge

Creator:

Signal Corps Photo.

Date:

December 4, 1946

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91.
Finish of the college quarter mile relay in the Penn Relay Carnival in 1946 at Franklin Field

Creator:

International News Photos.

Date:

1946

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92.
Howard University freshmen in 1946

Creator:

Schrlock Photo.

Date:

1946

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93.
Women and one man in school gym under sign that says Tuskegee Club of Philadelphia

Creator:

Peace Photo.

Date:

November 1946

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94.
Class of June 1947 : Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Creator:

Penn Photo Studio

Date:

June 1947

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95.
Man at stand in front of seated men under paintings

Creator:

Layne, Cecil.

Date:

May 3, 1947

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96.
Raman Bruce, Carl Basie and another man and a woman standing around a microphone labeled WHAT

Creator:

Miller, Sam.

Date:

1947

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97.
Jackie Robinson shaking hands with Rickey

Creator:

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

February 29, 1948

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98.
Mayor Bowron of Los Angeles seated at a long table with five other men in suits

Creator:

Stoumen, Louis Clyde.

Date:

July 26, 1948

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99.
Norwood Barney Ewell, 1948 Olympic champion

Date:

1948 approx.

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Three men and two women seated at a couple of tables collating stacks of paper

Date:

April 8, 1948

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