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Worlds' tallest : photo made atop Empire State Building, New York : two photos, one of two African American women and man in the Empire State Building, and another of a view of the outside of the Empire State Building

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The World's Greatest Boys and Girls Drum and Bugle Corps of Hamtramck, Michigan : founded in 1933 by Col. Leo Whittaker

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1933

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Women holding babies and children at party

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November 16, 1947

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Women dressed alike sitting in front of men

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Woman sitting holding baby and three children around her

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Woman on stage, wearing an evening gown

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Woman on a stage, in an evening gown

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Woman in an evening gown, walking on stage

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A woman in a dress and coat wearing a feathered hair ornament standing next to a man in a suit and coat wearing a hat

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Woman and African American woman in a car

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Winston dressed in a suit and hat standing with his arm around a woman in a dress, coat and hat standing in front of curtains

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Williams Jubilee Singers, touring Europe [hand colored]

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March 30, 1916

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Williams Jubilee Singers, touring Europe [hand colored]

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April 5, 1916

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The Williams Jubilee Singers touring Europe : African American men and women wearing suits and hats, holding luggage with stickers on them [hand colored]

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Williams Jubilee Singer touring Europe [hand colored]

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April 15, year unknown

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The William Pickens family

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July 10, 1909

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The whole black family at the hermitage Savannah, Ga.

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Detroit Publishing Co.

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Whoa mule! : four African American children sitting on a mule in front of a log cabin and a woman looking out the window [hand colored]

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Detroit Publishing Co.

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January 21, 1916

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Where the cotton blossoms grow : three African American women and an African American boy picking cotton and a man in a suit and hat [hand colored]

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Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

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A well-dressed couple at the steps of a brick building

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Weldon Brooks, Mittie, Marrie, Malido at Coney Island, N.Y.

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Way down yonder in the cornfield : an African American woman and man sitting on a porch [hand colored]

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Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

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December 1906

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Way down south in Dixie Land : an African American woman and six children sitting on a grassy hill [hand colored]

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Leighton & Valentine Co. (New York, N.Y.)

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February 2, 1915

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Way down on the Florida Keys : an African American woman in a skirt and blouse leaning on a wood fence

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April 8, 1910

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Walker & May, Walker, the blind comedian

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Wake up and join us : African American men and women singing from books and an African American man conducting

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Knaffl & Bro. (Knoxville, Tenn.)

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1897 approx.

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Two sets of African American twins in suits and hats posing with an African American woman wearing a dress

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Two pictures of an African American woman, one posing in a dress, and another posing in a dress and hat next to a chair

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Two old residents of New Bern, N.C. : an African American man smoking a pipe, and an African American woman

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Waters, Geo. B.

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February 1911

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Two men in suits, one with a hat and the other with glasses, standing with two women in dresses, hats and coats in front of an old fashioned car parked on a street

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Two men and a woman in front of window

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32.
The Two Diamonds

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Two African American women wearing aprons and hats, standing in the doorway of a small wooden building

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Two African American women in dresses, one wearing a cape and hat, standing in front of a window with shutters in a room

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Two African American women in dresses standing next to an African American boy in a hat

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June 8, 1906

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Two African American women in dresses and hats sitting on an overgrown hill

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Two African American women in dresses and hats sitting on a chair together, with two African American men in suits and hats standing behind them

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Two African American women behind a hot air balloon cut-out

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Two African American woman, one in a suit and hat holding a pistol and another one in a dress

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Two African American woman in a boat prop named Mayflower to Coney Island

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Two African American men, two African American women, and a stuffed donkey

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June 9, 1908

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Two African American men, an African American woman, and a dog

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Two African American men in front of a train backdrop of the Dixie Flyer

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Two African American men and an African American woman at Christmastime

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Two African American girls in dresses sitting on a bench, with an African American woman in a hat standing behind them

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Three views of an African American woman wearing a jacket and hat

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Three African American women in dresses and hats walking down a sidewalk

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Three African American women and an African American boy walking down a dirt road

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There is money in cotton : an African American woman in a dress and bonnet standing in front of a pile of baskets filled with cotton, with one hand open showing several coins

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Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

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1886

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Susan Foster Ray in a hat and glasses

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Sunday morning in Dixieland : an African American family posing outside their home [hand colored]

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Lipsher Specialty Co. (New Orleans, La.)

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Songs We Taught Your Mother, LP album cover photo : featuring Victoria Spivey, Lucille Hegamin, Alberta Hunter, and Jimmy Rushing

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Bradley, Jack.

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A society cake-walk of the Upperton duskies of the New South, Newport News, Va. : African American men and women wearing suits and dresses, dancing the cakewalk in front of a wooden building [hand colored]

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Abbe, James E.

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Six young African Amerinan women wearing dresses and hats standing in row in front of Crescent Ice Cream with a couple of African American men in suits in the background

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Six African American women in dresses and flower covered hats posing in a line

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

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December 2, 1939

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Shrimp docks-Southport, N.C. : with African American men and women working

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September 5, 1950

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Scenes of Ernest Hogan in Rufus Rastus Co.

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Rebecca Love wearing a hat : back has two small pictures of a church and a street corner

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Queen of Hog Alley, Jefferson City, Mo. [hand colored]

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January 15, 1909

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Proof of patience : an African American woman on the porch in a rocking chair and a little boy sitting on the ground with a handbag and hat next to him

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National Art Views Co. (N.Y.)

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Proof of patience : an African American woman on the porch in a rocking chair and a little boy sitting on the ground with a handbag and hat next to him

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National Art Views Co. (N.Y.)

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Private Tennis Court : a group of African American men and women

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

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July 13, 1937

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Posed portrait of 4 entertainers, three men in suits and hats, one of which is in blackface, and a woman in a dress

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Bell Studio (N.Y.)

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Portrait of Sarah Ann Blunt

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Carter.

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November 1884

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Portrait of Mrs. Scipio Lizette D. Forth, ex slave

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April 5, 1965

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Portrait of Missy Willis

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Portrait of M. Fobbs wearing a dress and hat

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Portrait of M. Fobbs wearing a dress and hat

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Portrait of an African American woman wearing an apron, hat and eyeglasses

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Portrait of an African American woman wearing a hat

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Stigre.

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Portrait of an African American woman wearing a hat

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Portrait of an African American woman wearing a hat

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Kennedy Studio (Lincoln, Neb.)

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Portrait of an African American woman wearing a hat

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Portrait of an African American woman wearing a hat

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Portrait of an African American woman wearing a hat

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Portrait of an African American woman wearing a dress with lace trimmed shoulders, a hat with bow, and a necklace with large beads

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Portrait of an African American woman sitting on a chair in a dress and hat, with an African American boy and girl standing on either side of her

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A portrait of an African American woman in a skirt and matching jacket, and a hat

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Portrait of an African American woman in a fur-collared coat and hat [hand colored]

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Portrait of an African American woman in a dress and hat with a purse on her right wrist standing next to an African American man in a suit and hat seated in a chair in front of a portrait backdrop

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1923

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

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O Studio.

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1916

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A portrait of an African American man and woman wearing hats : with the man playing a trumpet

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Portrait of Adelaide Hall wearing a dress and hat

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Ebue Studio (N.Y.)

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1929

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Portrait of a man in suit, trenchcoat and hat standing next to a woman in a dress, hat and coat seated in a chair

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Brown, George W. (George Washington), 1820-1915.

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Picture of Victoria Spivey wearing a dress with a hat and necklace with her left hand pointing to her chin

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Kunstadt, Len.

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Picking cotton : an African American woman picking cotton wearing a hat and with a bag over her shoulder

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Cline Photo.

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Physicians posing for picture on steps outside of building

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Harris' Studio

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Pencil drawing over faded photo of sitting woman and three children

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Pearl Baugh in band uniform holding a trombone

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Old time pine log hut : with an African American woman and three children

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Raphael Tuck & Sons.

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October 10, 1906

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No race suicide here : one African American woman and 11 children standing outside [hand colored]

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T.P. & Co. (N.Y.)

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No place like home : an African American man and two women sitting outside a wood hut

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May 19, 1898

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Nig in a dress and necklace standing between Lee and Al in suits each holding a hat standing on grass next to a brick building

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Negro wedding

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E.C. Kropp Co.

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Negro shack, Montgomery, Ala. : an African American man and woman standing outside a log cabin

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Fowler, E. G.

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December 28, 1907

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Negro hut : an African American man and woman sitting outside a log cabin [hand colored]

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T.P. & Co. (N.Y.)

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Negro home in Mobile, Ala. : an African American man and woman sitting on the porch of a house : with high corn stalks in the garden [hand colored]

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Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

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unknown

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Negro home in Mobile, Ala. : an African American man and woman sitting on the porch of a house : with a cornfield [hand colored]

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Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.)

Date:

February 18, 1914

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