Collection: Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection / Format: Still image / Genre: black-and-white photographs / Access: Log In Required

1.
August Wilson and an African American woman at Harlem YMCA

Creator:: Yearwood, Lloyd.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
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African American men holding Bird basketball awards

Creator:: Yearwood, Lloyd.
Date:: unknown
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African American men and women drinking at a bar, with bartenders working behind the bar

Creator:: Yates, Ted.
Date:: unknown
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Group shot of the women of the Junior Matrons Auxiliary

Creator:: Worthington Studio.
Date:: unknown
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Cylde McPhatter and the Drifters singing in Memphis (Tenn.)

Creator:: Withers, William C.
Date:: unknown
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Jimmy Reed with guitar on stage with masked sitting people

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1961
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Portrait of Little Junior Parker

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1958
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Mr. Gaskin sitting behind a desk reading from a paper to an African American woman, writing on a notepad

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: unknown
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B.B. King with Billy Harvey's band at Club Handy

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1950s
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Ruth Brown in a strapless dress wwith earrings and high heel shoes behind a microphone on stage in Memphis with an audience of African American men and African American women in the background

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1950s
Format:: Still image
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Elvis Presley with Nappy Brown, Little Junior Parker, and Bobby Blue Bland in Elllis Auditorium, Memphis (Tenn.)

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1950 approx.
Format:: Still image
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Roscoe Gordon with rooster on shoulder grabbing record from Sam Phillips

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1950s
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Beale Streeters : Earl Forest, Billy Duncan, Bobby Bland and Johnny Ace at WDIA Studios, Memphis, early 1950's

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1950s
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Department store lunch counter with Colored Only sign

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1950s
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Old-timer shoe-shine stand (white folks welcome) in Handy Park

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1950s
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Lincoln colored drive-in movie

Creator:: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
Date:: 1940s
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Portrait of Susan Long, an African American woman

Creator:: Winn, Walter.
Date:: unknown
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African American model with arms crossed [hand colored]

Creator:: Wink.
Date:: unknown
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African American model on a blanket [hand colored]

Creator:: Wink.
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African American model in swimsuit holding an apple [hand colored]

Creator:: Wink.
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21.
Robert K. Johnson of the I.B.P.O.E.W.

Creator:: Wilson, G. Marshall.
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22.
Alfred Anderson, Instructor Tuskegee University

Creator:: Wilson, G. Marshall.
Date:: unknown
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Two pictures, one an outside view of Mercy Douglass Hospital and the second a group picture of a large number of men in suits and an African American woman

Creator:: Wilson, G. Marshall.
Date:: 1956
Format:: Still image
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Anderson, Alfred, Instructor Tuskegee, Ala.

Creator:: Wilson, G. Marshall.
Date:: unknown
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Group of men at awards ceremony

Creator:: Wilson, G. Marshall.
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Helen Curl Harris in her beauty salon

Creator:: Wilson, G. Marshall.
Date:: unknown
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Portrait of an African American woman

Creator:: Wilson, G. M.
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Portrait of an African American woman

Creator:: Wilson, G. M.
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29.
Duke Ellington and his orchestra

Creator:: William Morris Agency.
Date:: unknown
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30.
Picture of Florence Mills from U.S. Thompson to his editor

Creator:: Wilding, Dorothy, 1893-1976.
Date:: December 5, 1926
Format:: Still image
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Chicago teachers strike

Creator:: Wide World Photos.
Date:: January 10, 1973
Format:: Still image
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Protests halt black housing project

Creator:: Wide World Photos.
Date:: December 3, 1972
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Mortar Board Time-- Michigan State University President Clifton R. Wharton JR., (right) chats with newly designated Secretary of Defense Elliot L. Richardson before fall term commencement exercises at MSU Saturday

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: December 2, 1972
Format:: Still image
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Two men peeling the bark off trees

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: unknown
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Airport officials and ambulance driver transfer the body of slain sniper Mark Essex from plane to ambulance for burial in Emporia, KS. He was killed in gun battle with police after killing six persons and wounding 17 others in New Orleans

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: January 11, 1973
Format:: Still image
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African American boy smiling after receiving a football from a toy distribution center in Camden, N.J.

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: December 22, 1972
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Sniper and officer's guns-- New Orleans arms identification officer Alex Vega holds the 44-magnum (left) used by the sniper and the shotgun used by Deputy Superintendent Louis Sirgo who was slain : note several bullet holes visible in the barrel of

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: January 9, 1973
Format:: Still image
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Pondering the big question-- New Orleans Police Superintendent Clarence Giarusso ponders the big question of if there was more than one sniper involved in the Howard Johnson's shootings : Giarrusso replied, I'm not satisfied either way

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: January 10, 1973
Format:: Still image
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Services for sniper-- the casket contain- the body of Mark James Essex is carried from the St. James Baptist Church : Essex was the sniper who was killed by police Sunday in New Orleans atop a motor hotel

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: January 13, 1973
Format:: Still image
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40.
Wants to play : Wali Jones of the Milwaukee Bucks pulls at his beard as he listens to his attorney, Richie Phillips, left, answer questions from newsmen about Jones' suspension from the team

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: January 13, 1973
Format:: Still image
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Slain Sniper --Mark J. Jimmy Essex who was the sniper slain atop the Howard Johnson's Hotel after he killed six persons in New Orleans Sunday is shown posing for a group picture in the Navy in San Diego, Calif., in 1969

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: 1969
Format:: Still image
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Whitney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, at a luncheon of the Urban League of Philadelphia and the Health and Welfare Council, Inc.

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: unknown
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43.
Man of the hour : Syracuse University guard Dennis DuVal, a junior from Westbury, N.Y. holds his Connecticut Basketball Classic Most Valuable Player award after it was presented to him by University of Connecticut Athletic Director John Toner

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: December 24, 1972
Format:: Still image
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Parents of sniper-- Mrs. Nellie Essex and her husband, Mark Essex answer newsmen's questions during a news conference at the St. James Baptist Church : their son, Mark (Jimmy) Essex, was slain by police Sunday in a New Orleans shootout

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: January 11, 1973
Format:: Still image
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Holdup hero-- The Rev. Karey (cq) Rivers, 37, a Baptist pastor and state employment official, was credited with thwarting a bank robbery in downtown Syracuse Tuesday : Rivers grabbed suspect and held him until police arrived

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: November 28, 1972
Format:: Still image
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Identified as slain sniper - this is a high school yearbook photograph of Mark James Robert Essex, identified today as the sniper killed by police atop a New Orleans hotel Sunday

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: unknown
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47.
Navy's offensive starting lineup for their annual game against the Army in Philadelphia

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: December 1, 1972
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48.
Busy street in Africa, with students and tents

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: unknown
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Slain officers --three New Orleans police officers slain by a snipers bullets include, from left: Patrolman Philip Coleman, Deputy Superintendent Louis Sirgo and Patrolman Paul Persigo

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: January 9, 1973
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50.
Ted Berry, 67, puffs on one of his ever-present pipes as he became Cincinnati's first black mayor

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: December 1, year unknown
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51.
Martin Luther King seated at a table holding a piece of paper

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: March 18, 1964
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Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Creator:: Wide World Photos, Inc.
Date:: November 11, 1962
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Earlene Brown a 23-year-old Compton, Calif., housewife, gets ready to put the shot during a practice session in the Coliseum at Los Angeles

Creator:: Wide World Photo.
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54.
African American man and woman in front of a prop door

Creator:: White Studio (New York, N.Y.)
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55.
Two women and a man by a prop door

Creator:: White Studio (New York, N.Y.)
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56.
Adelaide Hall in the revue Blackbirds of 1928

Creator:: White Studio (New York, N.Y.)
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Aida Ward on stage

Creator:: White Studio (New York, N.Y.)
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58.
Paul Bass and Margaret Simms in the revue Hot Chocolate

Creator:: White Studio (New York, N.Y.)
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59.
Jimmy Baskete, Billy Higgins and Eddie Green in the revue Hot Chocolate

Creator:: White Studio (New York, N.Y.)
Date:: unknown
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60.
Portrait of Bert Williams in a suit

Creator:: White (N.Y.)
Date:: January 18, 1912
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61.
Group picture of 5 women, one boy, and two men in front of large brick building

Creator:: Waterman, Randolph R.
Date:: unknown
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62.
African American football players on a field, including Bussey, Butler, Gary, Evans, Simpson, Lewis, Heileg, R. Hill, Bligeon, Dimery, Ashe and Williams

Creator:: Warren's Studio (Orangeburg, S.C.)
Date:: September 29, 1939
Format:: Still image
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63.
Women and some men of Masons Choral Club with books on ground

Creator:: Vodery News Service (Cambridge, Md.)
Date:: 1944
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64.
Man leaning on hearse in front of building

Creator:: Vodery News Service (Cambridge, Md.)
Date:: unknown
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65.
Pine St. Library opening

Creator:: Vodery News Service (Cambridge, Md.)
Date:: unknown
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66.
Soldiers with flags on dirt road next to houses

Creator:: Vodery News Service (Cambridge, Md.)
Date:: unknown
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Rev. and Mrs. Tillery on the lawn of their house

Creator:: Vodery News Service (Cambridge, Md.)
Date:: 1944
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Eastern Shore Beauticians Association standing on the sidewalk and porch steps of a house, between two hedges

Creator:: Vodery News Service (Cambridge, Md.)
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An African American woman seated at a dresser with mirror working on her fingernails

Creator:: Vodery News Service (Cambridge, Md.)
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70.
Queen mother Elizabeth of Brussels with stars of Porgy and Bess

Creator:: Vermeulen, Henri.
Date:: unknown
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71.
Portrait of Mamie Smith wearing a wrap and a long beaded necklace

Creator:: Vanderzee.
Date:: unknown
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72.
Scene from the New York Theatre Guild's production of Porgy

Creator:: Vandamm (New York)
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73.
Portrait of an African American man in a chef's outfit with a beard

Creator:: Vandamm (New York)
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74.
Ethel Waters in a dress and head scarf

Creator:: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
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75.
Man in a suit seated with a woman in business suit standing behind him, in front of shelves of books

Creator:: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
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James Weldon Johnson, NAACP's First Black Executive Secretary

Creator:: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
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77.
Man in suit in front of draperies

Creator:: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
Date:: unknown
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78.
Clyde Bernhardt, pseudonym Ed Barron, with trombone

Creator:: Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983.
Date:: 1937
Format:: Still image
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79.
King Oliver & his Harlem Syncopators

Creator:: Van Der Zee, James, 1886-1983.
Date:: March 1931
Format:: Still image
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80.
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
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81.
Warren Moon, quarterback for the Houston Oilers, getting ready for the snap during a game

Creator:: Valeri, Mike.
Date:: 1989
Format:: Still image
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AJP091103-9/11/68-Atlanta: Negro attorney Maynard Jackson waves his ballot as he enters a voting booth 9/11. Jackson is seeking the Senate seat of former Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge and many political experts have predicted he'll make a strong

Creator:: UPI Telephoto.
Date:: September 11, 1968
Format:: Still image
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83.
Soldiers walking down a hallway holding canes

Creator:: Universal Pictures Company.
Date:: 1951
Format:: Still image
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84.
Rev. Rufus King Young, Pastor of the Negro Bethel African Methodist Church, speaking into a microphone

Creator:: United Press Telephoto.
Date:: September 8, 1957
Format:: Still image
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85.
Sarah Branch Wray and Louis Gossett in a play Take a giant step

Creator:: United Press Photo.
Date:: unknown
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86.
Albert Ray, the Watermelon King, dancing with a watermelon on his head

Creator:: United Press Photo.
Date:: June 3, 1952
Format:: Still image
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87.
Policemen and prison guards search surrendering convicts at Ohio State Penitentiary for concealed weapons: the recent four-day rebellion of 1,600 prisoners ended when the inmates were handed an ultimatum by authorities

Creator:: United Press Photo.
Date:: November 7, 1952
Format:: Still image
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88.
Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, after announcing his landslide victory, gets a pat on his cheek from his mother, Irene

Creator:: United Press International.
Date:: October 4, 1977
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89.
Malcolm X being carried on a stretcher

Creator:: United Press International.
Date:: unknown
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90.
Crowd at church where casket of one of the girls killed by Birmingham church bombing is brought out

Creator:: United Press International.
Date:: September 18, 1963
Format:: Still image
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91.
African American amputee with canes in field next to tractor in Memphis, Tenn.

Creator:: United Press International.
Date:: 1956
Format:: Still image
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92.
Floyd Patterson before fighting Brian London

Creator:: United Press International.
Date:: April 28, 1959
Format:: Still image
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93.
William M. Eaton with daughter at Lowndes County courthouse

Creator:: United Press International.
Date:: May 6, 1965
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94.
Luisa Adrienne Lewis, 18, peers from beneath blankets at Highland Hospital

Creator:: United Press International.
Date:: July 4, 1966
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95.
Two girls mourning at funeral ceremony for the girls killed by Birmingham church bombing

Creator:: United Press International.
Date:: September 19, 1963
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96.
William Eaton, Collie Leroy Wilkins, Eugene Thomas and their attorney Matt Murphy

Creator:: United Press International.
Date:: April 22, 1965
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97.
Carol Robertson, one of four girls killed by Birmingham church bombing, in casket carried to a church

Creator:: United Press International.
Date:: September 17, 1963
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