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1.
Jackson, Mahalia, Best Loved Spirituals album cover image, circa 1999

Date:

1999 approx.

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African American woman posing with a basketball held in front of her head

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Penn Studio (Baltimore, Md.)

Date:

April 3, 1979

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African American woman posing while holding a basketball

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Penn Studio (Baltimore, Md.)

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April 3, 1977

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Cle_o Verne_e [hand colored]

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September 6, 1977

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Portia Marshall Washington Pittman, daughter of Booker T. Washington, sitting by a bouquet of flowers

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February 1975

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Wesley Frierson Investment Co.

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July 1970

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African American family sitting on a porch

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1969

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Blind singles concert at Salem Methodist Church

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McAdams, David.

Date:

May 23, 1965

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The governor's palace kitchen, Williamsburg, Virginia : two African American women cooks

Creator:

Overly, Charles H.

Date:

June 23, 1965

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

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April 5, 1965

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An African American woman in a dress and three African American men in suits at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

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Wolf, Heinz.

Date:

1963

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Victoria Spivey in a dress, Lonnie Johnson in a suit, and Muddy Waters in the background at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

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Wolf, Heinz.

Date:

1963

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Willie Dixon in a suit standing playing the double bass and Victoria Spivey in a dress performing at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963

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Wolf, Heinz.

Date:

1963

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Portrait of Anna P. Burrell in 1962

Date:

1962

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15.
Snooks Eaglin playing guitar on a set of steps outside of a house, with men, women and children gathered around him

Date:

1962

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African American couple with the man wearing a fez

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Hooper, Wert S.

Date:

1961

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17.
A blonde Helen Curl Harris with Ella Fitzgerald

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Mosley, John W.

Date:

1961

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18.
John H. Murray talking with African American woman outside of house in Berkeley, Calif.

Creator:

Robinson, Louie.

Date:

1961 approx.

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John H. Murray with woman in dining room, having breakfast and reading the newspaper in Berekely, Calif.

Creator:

Robinson, Louie.

Date:

1961 approx.

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Rosalie Reese accepting her prize for first place individual twister in the Dewer's Twist contest in Small's Paradise

Date:

November 28, 1961

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Black literary figures, including Nikki Giovanni and Roy L. Hill with a poster of Malcolm X

Date:

1960s

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Plantation kitchen, Arlington Confederate Shrine, Birmingham, Ala.

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Alabama Post Card Co. (Bessemer, Ala.)

Date:

July 19, 1960

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Cotton pickin' : African American men and women picking cotton

Date:

May 13, 1959

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Miss Willa Preston, Mr. and Mrs. Bhatta Charya, Mrs. E.S. Williams, and Rev. H.E. Walden speaking after the Wilburn Versatile Singers concert at the Grant Memorial A.M.E. Church, Chicago (Ill.)

Creator:

Williams, Milt.

Date:

May 25, 1959

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25.
National Association of College Women, 36th Annual Convention, Hotel Douglas, Newark, New Jersey, August 14, 1959

Creator:

Central Photo-Flash Photographers (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

August 14, 1959

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Cotton Pickers in Dixieland : a group of African American men, African American women and African American children picking cotton with scattered trees in the background [hand colored]

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Tichnor Bros., Inc. (Boston, Mass.)

Date:

July 10, 1958

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Ghana goldsmith lets one of three girls try on gold necklace

Creator:

United States Information Service.

Date:

October 1958

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Group of men and women in front of Parliament House in Accra, Ghana

Creator:

United States Information Service.

Date:

October 1958

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29.
Men and women wearing O.E.S. society sashes

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Bastress, Robert L.

Date:

April 1958

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30.
Rachel, standing on a busy sidewalk

Date:

October 21, 1958

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31.
Rose Odamtten admires dress at Kingsway with two girls

Creator:

United States Information Service.

Date:

October 1958

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32.
Women around Kwame Omyah, a Ghana goldsmith, to admire jewelry

Creator:

United States Information Service.

Date:

October 1958

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33.
Women chat with Mowbray Elliot next to small bus

Creator:

United States Information Service.

Date:

October 1958

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34.
African American woman sitting on a chair reading a book to her two girls, with an African American man sitting in another chair, in front of a fireplace

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Lambert.

Date:

December 12, 1957

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Flower vendor, Charleston, S.C., America's Most Historic City

Creator:

Curt Teich & Co.

Date:

February 12, 1957

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36.
Members of the Good Samaritan Club standing in front of cross

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December 21, 1957

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37.
Picking cotton in the sunny South : African American women and an African American man picking cotton in a field with houses in the background [hand colored]

Creator:

Asheville Post Card Co. (Asheville, N.C.)

Date:

October 19, 1957

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38.
Supervised food preparation, class 1957, at Home Eckers Trade School in Raleigh, N.C.

Creator:

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

Date:

1957

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39.
10 prints of African American amputee in home and in doctor's office in Memphis, Tenn.

Date:

1956

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40.
Line of women in dresses standing on one foot with a woman instructing them, and another playing the piano

Creator:

Halvey, Robert S.

Date:

March 7, 1956

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41.
Men and women in front of circus sign that says Thaisa Gardner Beautiful Tiny Mite

Date:

August 1956

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42.
Premier season : Booker Terrace

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March 4, 1956

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Two African American men in suits and two African American women in dresses standing in front of a fake window with curtains underneath a sign which says Original Peter Pan May 5 1956

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Savoy.

Date:

May 5, 1956

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44.
African American woman standing next to an opened car door

Date:

1955

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45.
Miss Etta and Brunson looking at storaged goods such as canned food

Creator:

Bryson, S.K.

Date:

December 6, 1955

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46.
Miss Helen Colbert, Mr. Leslie Scott and Mr. Lawson Ambassador NSA to Greece at a reception in Athens Greece in 1955

Date:

1955

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47.
The 1954 class of Ambrose High School in Lexington, Miss.

Creator:

Robinson Studio.

Date:

1954

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48.
African American men and women sitting at a table drinking alcoholic beverages

Date:

February 16, 1954

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49.
Funeral service for an African American woman

Creator:

Bryson, S. K.

Date:

September 2, 1954

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50.
Harvesting cigar wrapper tobacco : African American men and women holding harvested tobacco leaves next to boxes and a horse in a tobacco field, in Quincy, Florida

Creator:

S., F. E.

Date:

1954

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51.
Helen Colbert and three other women on 03/20/1954

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March 20, 1954

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52.
J. Edward Green in a A.E.A.O.N.M.S. fez with two women

Date:

August 16, 1954

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Men wearing society fezzes and women near boat entrance

Creator:

Hooper, Wert S.

Date:

August 2, 1954

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54.
Funeral service at First A.M.E. Church

Creator:

Farnborough Foto.

Date:

February 28, 1953

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Greetings from the heart of Dixie : a typical cotton picking scene [hand colored]

Creator:

Welch Sales Co. (Toomsuba, Miss.)

Date:

August 1953

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56.
2 Guides at the Lewis Plantation

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Florida Speaks Corp. (St. Petersburg, Fla.)

Date:

November 7, 1952

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African American men and women at one long table with party streamers above them

Creator:

Hooper, Wert S.

Date:

May 26, 1952

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58.
Doctors and nurses performing surgery at Lincoln Hospital

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Smith.

Date:

May 5, 1952

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59.
Sideways portrait of a man in a suit standing behind a woman in a dress with his arms around her waist holding her hands in front of a painted backdrop of a garden view with pillars

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Sharon's.

Date:

December 12, 1952

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60.
A young African American woman wearing sunglasses seated on a railing

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Powell.

Date:

1952

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61.
African American woman dancing in front of a band on stage at the Powelton Cafe

Date:

1951

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African American woman dancing on stage at the Powelton Cafe

Date:

1951

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Attorney Willard B. Ransom, now general manager of company delivers memorial eulogy at the grave of Mme. C.J. Walker in New York during the pilgrimage honoring her sponsored by the National Beauty Culturists League in 1951

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Madam C.J. Walker College of Beauty Culture (Kansas City, Mo.)

Date:

1951

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64.
Billie Holiday singing on stage in front of an audience at Powelton Cafe

Date:

1951

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A group picture of African American women wearing dresses, some seated on the floor, some seated and some standing, in a living room

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Will-Ellen Studios.

Date:

May 11, 1951

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66.
M & M Cafeteria suggestion card

Date:

March 25, 1951

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St. Augustine choir in graduation robes in front of pipe organ

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Mosley, John W.

Date:

1951

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68.
African American singers and musicians performing at concert in Saint Augustine (Fla.)

Date:

1950

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Black physicians in Philadelphia, circa 1950

Date:

1950 approx.

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70.
Geneva's Beauty Salon

Date:

1950

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71.
Shrimp docks-Southport, N.C. : with African American men and women working

Date:

September 5, 1950

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72.
Clara Ward and three other gospel singers

Date:

September 17, 1949

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73.
Funeral service for Leah B. Farrar

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Brodnax Studio (Richmond, Va.)

Date:

March 23, 1949

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74.
Johnnie Hughes Combo : Philadelphia Pa.

Creator:

Photo Art Studios.

Date:

October 29, 1949

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75.
Marie Alexander waving

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Grant.

Date:

August 12, 1949

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Men and women cooking and working behind the counter of Al's Luncheonette, and African American men and women eating at the counter

Date:

February 9, 1949

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Mercy-Douglass Hosptial staff in June 1949

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June 1949

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Ruth Brown, and her band performing on stage at Powello's Cafe

Date:

October 16, 1949

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Two African American women, Lillian W. and Edwina C., wearing dresses, earrings and necklaces

Date:

July 18, 1949

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80.
African American boy and man shaking hands in front of Mary McLeod Bethune

Date:

February 28, 1948

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81.
An African American woman seated on a bed wearing a halter top, with several enlarged photos on the wall

Date:

October 12, 1948

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82.
Clara Lee Westbrooks-Coleman wearing graduate robes while holding a diploma

Date:

May 31, 1948

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83.
Eight African American women of the Boni Amie club on or behind a sofa

Creator:

Wilson's Foto Service.

Date:

1948

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84.
Sarah Washington and other men and women, standing on stage in a Philadelphia night club

Date:

1948

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85.
Woman standing in a garden

Date:

October 26, 1948

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An African American woman feading peacocks [hand colored]

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E. C. Kropp Co.

Date:

January 13, 1947

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An autographed portrait of Pauline Mayes, wearing a fur wrap, in 1947

Date:

1947

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Billie Holiday wearing a dress and necklace seated next to Louis Armstrong wearing a suit standing and playing a trumpet

Date:

1947

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89.
Class of June 1947 : Pennsylvania School of Nursing

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Penn Photo Studio

Date:

June 1947

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90.
Daughter of Booker T. Washington in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

Date:

winter 1947

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Mrs. Nanie Bell Aycox, first woman president fo Paul Quinn College

Date:

August 20, 1947

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92.
Portrait of G.M. Green

Date:

May 15, 1947

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93.
Women holding babies and children at party

Date:

November 16, 1947

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94.
Dorothy's Beauty College, April 1946

Creator:

Long's.

Date:

April 1946

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Old Southern Tea Room, Vicksburg, Miss. [hand colored]

Creator:

E. C. Kropp Co.

Date:

February 3, 1946

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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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The women of the Ladies About Town club in dresses

Date:

August 23, 1946

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1st African-American WAC unit in Rouen, France

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United States. Army. Signal Corps. Photographic Center.

Date:

May 27, 1945

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African American female soldier

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July 13, 1945

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African American female soldiers with luggage outside of a bus

Date:

November 1945

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