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1.
A potato field, Florida

Creator:

H. & W. B. Drell Co. (Jacksonville, Fla.)

Date:

1776

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Oldest wooden school house, St. Augustine, Florida

Creator:

Florida Souvenir Co. (St. Augustine, Fla.)

Date:

1788

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Alexander Spotswood Payne and his Brother, John Robert Dandridge Payne, with their Nurse

Creator:

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Date:

1790 approx.

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My old Kentucky home : an African American man standing in front of the home of John Rowan

Date:

1795

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5.
Coons in a rubber tree : six African American boys in a tree

Creator:

Rotograph Co. (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1804 approx.

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6.
Market Street from Thirteen Street, Harrisburg, Pa.

Date:

1807 approx.

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Starting on a long journey : a painting of men and women traveling on a train, with an African American man employee

Date:

1809

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Afrique Occidentale-- Soudan Tombouctou. Maison habite?e par l'explorateur franc?ais Rene Caille?. Sierra-Leone, Tombouctou, Maroc (1828) = West Africa-- Sudan Timbuktu : a house inhabited by the French explorer Rene Caille, Sierra Leone, Timbuktu, Morocco

Date:

1828

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Advertising flyer for the sale of slaves on May 18th, 1829

Date:

May 18, 1829

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Dixie blossoms : an African American boy with little toddler girl

Date:

1831

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Happy go lucky coons : two African American boys in suspenders [hand colored]

Creator:

Mitchell, Edward H.

Date:

1832

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Apothecary Hall, established 1839, Frederiksted, St. Croix, V.I. : with African American women and children looking in the window, and a woman and child on the street

Creator:

Art Shop (Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands)

Date:

1839

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Cinque_, leader of the Amistad slaves

Creator:

Clifford Scofield Color Productions (Cheshire, Conn.)

Date:

1839 approx.

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Old slave market, St. Augustine, Fla.

Creator:

W.J. Harris Co., Inc. (Saint Augustine, Fla.)

Date:

1840

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The old market, Charleston, S.C.

Creator:

Gayden Bros. (Charleston, S.C.)

Date:

1841

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16.
Dixie Hotel, Monticello, FLA

Creator:

Collotype Co.

Date:

1842

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17.
Concord Baptist Church of Christ, Brooklyn, N.Y., with a portrait of Dr. James B. Adams, Pastor

Date:

May 18, 1847

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18.
Grand Central Station of Underground R.R. in 1850

Creator:

Tom Jones Pub. (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Date:

1850 approx.

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19.
Booker T. Washington birthplace

Creator:

Elkins, Charles.

Date:

April 5, 1856

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20.
Old slave block in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with Albert Crutchfield standing on the street corner

Creator:

Kishpaugh, R. A.

Date:

1859

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Diorama of Stephen Foster's song Old Black Joe, 1860 at the Stephen Foster Memorial on the Suwannee River, White Springs, Florida

Creator:

Curt Teich & Co.

Date:

1860

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Sister Johnson wearing a robe, holding an open book in one hand, with her other hand pointing upwards

Creator:

Penn Studio.

Date:

June 1860

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23.
Penn School in St. Helena Island, S.C. : the first school building for negroes in the south

Date:

1862

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24.
Drawing of African American children being taught by a woman in a dress at School of Colored Orphan Asylum, New York (N.Y.)

Creator:

Payne's Excelsior Photographic Hall (Middletown, N.Y.)

Date:

1863

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25.
Coloured school at Alexandria Va. 1864 taught by Harriet Jacobs & daughter agents of New York Friends

Date:

1864

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26.
Learning is wealth : Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, slaves from New Orleans : an African American man seated in a chair with a book in his hand with two girls and a boy seated around him also holding books

Creator:

Paxson, Chas. (Charles), -1880.

Date:

1864

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27.
Sojourner Truth knitting in a chair

Date:

1864

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28.
An African American man posing with a cane on his arm

Date:

October 20, 1865

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29.
Artistically Exposed Woman

Date:

1865

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30.
Artistically Exposed Woman

Date:

1865

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31.
Portrait of a small girl being held by an African American, with only their hands visible

Date:

1865

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32.
Quaker man with black girl

Date:

1865

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33.
Women and girls picking cotton

Creator:

Wilson & Co. (Savannah, Ga.)

Date:

June 4, 1865

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34.
Oval portrait of an African American woman sitting.

Creator:

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917.

Date:

June 1870

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35.
View of Charleston, S.C.

Creator:

King, Netty A.

Date:

October 1870

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36.
Frederick Douglass 1871 January as Secretary to Commission sent by Grat to annex Santo Domingo either at sea or Brooklyn Navy Yard, or Hoboken, N.J.

Date:

1871

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37.
John Brown's cabin : entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871

Date:

January 18, 1871

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38.
Chimney sweeps

Creator:

Wilson, J. N. (Jerome Nelson), 1827-1897.

Date:

1872

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39.
Class of '72, Episcopal Divinity School

Creator:

Suddards & Fennemore (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1872

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40.
Sacrifice : Ulala, 1st May 1873 : two men hovering over a sad person

Date:

May 1873

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41.
Frank Hart, center, with Englehardt, left, and O'Leary, right

Date:

1874 approx.

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42.
Old Jack, one of the oldest inhabitants of St. Augustine, Florida

Creator:

Gardiner, Charles J.

Date:

1875

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43.
Thomas Dilward (Japanese Tommy) wearing a suit and vest standing with his right arm resting on a table with a top hat next to his arm

Creator:

Soule, John P.

Date:

1875 approx.

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44.
Family on porch with horse and African American man on side

Date:

1876

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45.
Fayetteville State Teachers College (N.C.), including Henry Waddel Chestnut Library, Robert R. Taylor Science Building, Smith Administration Building

Creator:

Carolina News Co. (Fayetteville, N.C.)

Date:

1877

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46.
An African American pharmacist/chemist wearing a suit and bow tie seated with a bowl in his hands, possibly James Still

Date:

February 1878

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47.
Four African Americans lynched in Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana

Creator:

Jones, Leroy William

Date:

November 11, 1878

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48.
Cotton gin in full blast, Florida

Creator:

Kilburn Brothers.

Date:

1879

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49.
Monrovia, Liberia, Water Street, circa 1879

Date:

1879 approx.

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50.
Waiting for your team at the cotton gin, Florida

Creator:

Kilburn Brothers.

Date:

1879

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51.
15th Amendment

Creator:

Havens, O. Pierre, 1838-1912.

Date:

1880s to 1910s

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52.
Boy riding an alligator bridled with rope

Creator:

Havens, O. Pierre, 1838-1912.

Date:

1880s to 1910s

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53.
Group of people sitting on hay bales next to a cotton field

Date:

1880 approx.

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54.
J.A. Williams sitting with a guitar

Creator:

J. A. Bodie & Co. (Honesdale, Pa.)

Date:

May 30, 1880

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55.
Portrait of Mattie Martin

Creator:

Martin, R. O.

Date:

1880

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56.
Shoe shine boy seated on stone wall wearing a top hat and holding a wooden box with brushes inside

Creator:

Havens, O. Pierre, 1838-1912.

Date:

1880s to 1910s

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57.
You're not in it : African American boy at the beach seated in a small round boat with a sail

Creator:

Havens, O. Pierre, 1838-1912.

Date:

1880s to 1910s

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58.
A pastoral visit : African American men, women, and children gathered around the dinner table, with a banjo on a stool

Creator:

Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Date:

1881

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59.
A signed portrait of Pastor Henry Highland Garnet on Aug. 13, 1881

Creator:

Stead, Jas. U.

Date:

August 13, 1881

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60.
Ben's cabin, Georgia

Creator:

Wilson & Co. (Savannah, Ga.)

Date:

1883

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61.
Cotton field and cotton pickers, Georgia

Creator:

Wilson & Co. (Savannah, Ga.)

Date:

1883

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62.
Mr. Robert Habersham's rice plantation

Creator:

Ryan, D. J.

Date:

May 2, 1883

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Negro cabins on Mr. Robert Habersham's rice plantation

Creator:

Ryan, D. J.

Date:

May 2, 1883

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64.
Portrait of Sarah Ann Blunt

Creator:

Carter.

Date:

November 1884

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65.
African American men and women posing in a line, in front of a building

Date:

November 15, 1885

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66.
Buffalo Soldiers rifle team with Charles Young

Date:

1885

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67.
Portrait of James P. Martin

Creator:

Imale's Studio (Des Moines, Iowa)

Date:

March 2, 1885

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68.
Sheepshearing in Westbury

Creator:

Nassau County Museum Reference Library.

Date:

1885

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69.
Dr. Bright, Rev. Dr. Crummel, Rev. Miller and Rev. Pollard

Creator:

A.L. Macbeth Studio (Baltimore, Md.)

Date:

1886

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70.
Florida New Years' day in the sunny south

Creator:

Barker, George, 1844-1894.

Date:

1886 approx.

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71.
Sam Langford : an African American boxer

Date:

1886

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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

Creator:

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

Date:

1886

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An African American woman in a dress carrying a U.S. flag standing underneath a tree next to an elderly woman seated in a chair with a child standing in front of her with a dirt road and house behind them

Date:

1888

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74.
Portrait of Ben Tenant

Creator:

Anderson.

Date:

February 22, 1889

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75.
Souvenir of Fort Worth, Tex. : down where the cotton blossoms grow

Creator:

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

Date:

1889

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76.
African American men and women picking cotton in Alexandria Valley, Alabama

Date:

1890s

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77.
All mine : African American family photo with their cat

Creator:

Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Date:

1890 approx.

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78.
Aussie Clark, an African American woman, peeling potatoes

Creator:

Charleston, E. G. N.

Date:

September 1890

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79.
Decorated Civil War veterans and patriots in Virginia

Creator:

H., H. M.

Date:

1890

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80.
A little African American girl standing on steps holding doll

Creator:

Robinson, W. A.

Date:

1890

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81.
Pictures of Covan & Covan Novelty Dance Team

Date:

1890s

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82.
Plantation life : with two African American men, one playing a banjo, an African American woman and two children and a dog [hand colored]

Creator:

Havens, O. P.

Date:

1890 approx.

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Two light haired girls in dresses, with the taller one holding onto a chair

Creator:

Robinson, W. A.

Date:

1890

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An African American man holding his hat, and a woman in a dress, holding a handkerchief

Creator:

Bouer (Slater, Mo.)

Date:

1891

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An African American man wearing a suit and hat, and a woman wearing a dress and hat, standing on either side of a cement wall

Creator:

Strauss.

Date:

1891

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The colored school, Vicksburg, Miss., U.S.A.

Creator:

Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909.

Date:

1891

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Harvest time in Dixie : a cotton field in full bloom : an African American man kneeling down picking cotton with a basket of cotton near him and a cabin behind him [hand colored]

Creator:

Memphis Paper Co. (Memphis, Tenn.)

Date:

October 5, 1891

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88.
Men of the African Methodist Episcopal Church outside of church

Date:

1891

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89.
Unloading a cotton steamboat, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Creator:

Jarvis, J. F. (John F.), 1850-

Date:

1891 approx.

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Cotton picking : eight African American women standing in a cotton field, one with a basket of cotton on her shoulders and two cotton baskets on the ground

Creator:

Albertype Co. (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Date:

February 23, 1892

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From the cradle to the grave, from one year to 130 years old : an African American family

Creator:

Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909.

Date:

1892 approx.

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92.
Golly! Dis am Paradise : African American children sitting with watermelons

Creator:

Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Date:

1892 approx.

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93.
We are natives : boy wearing wooden barrel holding a straw broom like a banjo standing next to an upright alligator holding sheets of music

Creator:

Shaw & Sons (Firm)

Date:

March 1892

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Kitchen at the home of Mary, the mother of Washington. Fredericksburg, Va. : with an old African American woman in front of the fireplace

Creator:

Artvue Post Card Co. (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1893

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95.
Slaves rescued by H.M.S. Philomel, April 1893

Date:

April 1893

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Three African American men, one woman and two children standing and sitting outside a log cabin in Jacksonville, Fla. in 1893

Creator:

O. Pierre Havens.

Date:

1893

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97.
A toboggan slide, Florida [hand colored]

Creator:

Havens.

Date:

1893

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98.
Blackberries and milk : African American mother with two children

Creator:

Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Date:

1894 approx.

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99.
Mrs. William Scott next to a table full of books

Creator:

Crowder.

Date:

1894

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100.
Nora and Naomi

Creator:

Neiberg.

Date:

August 24, 1894

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