1. Jackson, Mahalia, Best Loved Spirituals album cover image, circa 1999 Date: 1999 approx. Format: Still image Access: Public
2. African American woman posing with a basketball held in front of her head Creator: Penn Studio (Baltimore, Md.) Date: April 3, 1979 Format: Still image Access: Public
3. African American woman posing while holding a basketball Creator: Penn Studio (Baltimore, Md.) Date: April 3, 1977 Format: Still image Access: Public
5. Portia Marshall Washington Pittman, daughter of Booker T. Washington, sitting by a bouquet of flowers Date: February 1975 Format: Still image Access: Public
8. Blind singles concert at Salem Methodist Church Creator: McAdams, David. Date: May 23, 1965 Format: Still image Access: Public
9. The governor's palace kitchen, Williamsburg, Virginia : two African American women cooks Creator: Overly, Charles H. Date: June 23, 1965 Format: Still image Access: Public
10. Portrait of Mrs. Scipio Lizette D. Forth, ex slave Date: April 5, 1965 Format: Still image Access: Public
11. An African American woman in a dress and three African American men in suits at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963 Creator: Wolf, Heinz. Date: 1963 Format: Still image Access: Public
12. Victoria Spivey in a dress, Lonnie Johnson in a suit, and Muddy Waters in the background at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963 Creator: Wolf, Heinz. Date: 1963 Format: Still image Access: Public
13. Willie Dixon in a suit standing playing the double bass and Victoria Spivey in a dress performing at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963 Creator: Wolf, Heinz. Date: 1963 Format: Still image Access: Public
15. Snooks Eaglin playing guitar on a set of steps outside of a house, with men, women and children gathered around him Date: 1962 Format: Still image Access: Public
16. African American couple with the man wearing a fez Creator: Hooper, Wert S. Date: 1961 Format: Still image Access: Public
17. A blonde Helen Curl Harris with Ella Fitzgerald Creator: Mosley, John W. Date: 1961 Format: Still image Access: Public
18. John H. Murray talking with African American woman outside of house in Berkeley, Calif. Creator: Robinson, Louie. Date: 1961 approx. Format: Still image Access: Public
19. John H. Murray with woman in dining room, having breakfast and reading the newspaper in Berekely, Calif. Creator: Robinson, Louie. Date: 1961 approx. Format: Still image Access: Public
20. Rosalie Reese accepting her prize for first place individual twister in the Dewer's Twist contest in Small's Paradise Date: November 28, 1961 Format: Still image Access: Public
21. Black literary figures, including Nikki Giovanni and Roy L. Hill with a poster of Malcolm X Date: 1960s Format: Still image Access: Public
22. Plantation kitchen, Arlington Confederate Shrine, Birmingham, Ala. Creator: Alabama Post Card Co. (Bessemer, Ala.) Date: July 19, 1960 Format: Still image Access: Public
23. Cotton pickin' : African American men and women picking cotton Date: May 13, 1959 Format: Still image Access: Public
24. 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 Format: Still image Access: Public
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 Format: Still image Access: Public
26. 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] Creator: Tichnor Bros., Inc. (Boston, Mass.) Date: July 10, 1958 Format: Still image Access: Public
27. Ghana goldsmith lets one of three girls try on gold necklace Creator: United States Information Service. Date: October 1958 Format: Still image Access: Public
28. Group of men and women in front of Parliament House in Accra, Ghana Creator: United States Information Service. Date: October 1958 Format: Still image Access: Public
29. Men and women wearing O.E.S. society sashes Creator: Bastress, Robert L. Date: April 1958 Format: Still image Access: Public
31. Rose Odamtten admires dress at Kingsway with two girls Creator: United States Information Service. Date: October 1958 Format: Still image Access: Public
32. Women around Kwame Omyah, a Ghana goldsmith, to admire jewelry Creator: United States Information Service. Date: October 1958 Format: Still image Access: Public
33. Women chat with Mowbray Elliot next to small bus Creator: United States Information Service. Date: October 1958 Format: Still image Access: Public
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 Creator: Lambert. Date: December 12, 1957 Format: Still image Access: Public
35. Flower vendor, Charleston, S.C., America's Most Historic City Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: February 12, 1957 Format: Still image Access: Public
36. Members of the Good Samaritan Club standing in front of cross Date: December 21, 1957 Format: Still image Access: Public
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 Format: Still image Access: Public
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 Format: Still image Access: Public
39. 10 prints of African American amputee in home and in doctor's office in Memphis, Tenn. Date: 1956 Format: Still image Access: Public
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 Format: Still image Access: Public
41. Men and women in front of circus sign that says Thaisa Gardner Beautiful Tiny Mite Date: August 1956 Format: Still image Access: Public
43. 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 Creator: Savoy. Date: May 5, 1956 Format: Still image Access: Public
44. African American woman standing next to an opened car door Date: 1955 Format: Still image Access: Public
45. Miss Etta and Brunson looking at storaged goods such as canned food Creator: Bryson, S.K. Date: December 6, 1955 Format: Still image Access: Public
46. Miss Helen Colbert, Mr. Leslie Scott and Mr. Lawson Ambassador NSA to Greece at a reception in Athens Greece in 1955 Date: 1955 Format: Still image Access: Public
47. The 1954 class of Ambrose High School in Lexington, Miss. Creator: Robinson Studio. Date: 1954 Format: Still image Access: Public
48. African American men and women sitting at a table drinking alcoholic beverages Date: February 16, 1954 Format: Still image Access: Public
49. Funeral service for an African American woman Creator: Bryson, S. K. Date: September 2, 1954 Format: Still image Access: Public
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 Format: Still image Access: Public