1. Mr. Earle and woman standing in a pharmacy in Brooklyn Date: 1920s to 1930s Format: Still image Access: Public
2. Picture of Lucille Hegamin wearing a dress standing sideways Creator: Elcha (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1920s Format: Still image Access: Public
3. African American men, women and children watching the 41st anniversary and mortgage burning services of the High Street Baptist Church, Roanoke, Virginia, and the presentation of an automobile to the Pastor, Sunday, September 20th, 1925 Date: September 20, 1925 Format: Still image Access: Public
4. 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: 1925 approx. Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
5. Praline seller, New Orleans, La. [hand colored] Creator: New Orleans News Company (New Orleans, La.) Date: March 20, 1925 Format: Still image Access: Public
6. Students posing with diplomas and flowers at Boggs School, GA Date: 1925 Format: Still image Access: Public
8. Knoxville Colored High School class of '26 Creator: Browder's Studio. Date: 1926 Format: Still image Access: Public
9. A Night in Dixie Dixie Review : African American men's Dixie band, two in ticket booths, with five African American women on stage Creator: Century. Date: 1926 Format: Still image Access: Public
10. African American woman holding dolls Creator: Walery. Date: 1927 Format: Still image Access: Public
11. Elizabeth Smith playing a guitar Creator: Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1927 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
12. On the levee : Mississippi flood, 1927 Creator: Coovert's Studio (Memphis, Tenn.) Date: 1927 Format: Still image Access: Public
13. A portrait of an African American bride and groom Date: July 10, 1927 Format: Still image Access: Public
14. African American women in ranger-like uniforms at Fort Worth, Texas Date: July 2, 1928 Format: Still image Access: Public
15. A man in a suit seated in a chair smoking a cigar with a woman in a dress and two strand necklace seated on the arm of the chair holding a newspaper Date: 1928 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
16. Women and girls from Mwalimu School holding bouquets Date: 1928 Format: Still image Access: Public
17. African American men and women at the State Association in Marion, S.C. on June 18-20, 1929 Date: June 1929 Format: Still image Access: Public
18. De Cabin Home, in Dixieland : two African American women standing outside a lob cabin with a brick chimney Creator: Asheville Post Card Co. (Asheville, N.C.) Date: January 23, 1929 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
19. Group picture of Universal Life Insurance Co. stock holders in front of entrance to the home office of Universal Life Insurance Co. Date: 1929 Format: Still image Access: Public
20. Group shot of reception by the Order of the Eastern Star, Princess Hagar Chapter No. 7 Creator: Foster, L. L. Date: October 5, 1929 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
21. Man and woman walking in the street Creator: Star Photos. Date: January 5, 1929 Format: Still image Access: Public
22. Portrait of Adelaide Hall wearing a dress and hat Creator: Ebue Studio (N.Y.) Date: 1929 Format: Still image Access: Public
23. Portrait of Edna Wise Barr, broadway star Creator: Canell Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1929 Format: Still image Access: Public
24. An African American woman in a dress and eyeglasses, resting her right hand on a white rocking chair, holding a hat Creator: Khan, Azimullah. Date: 1930 Format: Still image Access: Public
25. African American women sitting on a sofa, with more women standing behind them, in the Selambra Club, New York Date: 1930 Format: Still image Access: Public
26. Large group of boys and girls, an African American man, three African American women and a baby in front of John D. Earle Prescription Pharmacy Date: 1930s Format: Still image Access: Public
27. Painting of a portrait of an African American woman Date: 1930 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
28. Portrait of Eslanda Goode Robeson, an African American woman Creator: Beck, Maurice. Date: 1930 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
30. African American women basketball team with their coach Date: 1931 Format: Still image Access: Public
31. Helen Dickens posing for picture in living room Creator: G. Marshall Wilson. Date: 1931 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
32. Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson in 1931 Creator: Ben. Date: 1931 Format: Still image Access: Public
33. Portrait of an African American woman wearing a scarf around her neck Creator: Divoli Photo Studio. Date: 1931 Format: Still image Access: Public
34. Portrait of an African American woman wearing a scarf around her neck Creator: Divoli Photo Studio. Date: 1931 Format: Still image Access: Public
35. Thousands of interested spectators watching eighty colored believers in the old-fashioned gospel, wade into the waters of the Potomac River to take part in the time-honored ceremony which attends the wholesale baptism Date: June 30, 1931 Format: Still image Access: Public
36. African American woman in a dress sitting on a chair, next to an African American man in a suit, on a lawn in front of a tree Date: 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
37. Aphonso Trent's Orchestra in Memphis, Tenn., 1932 Creator: Jones-Purdyes Photographers. Date: 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
38. Lil Armstrong's (stage) orchestra starting tour at Kendonne Theater, Buffalo (N.Y.) Date: 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
39. Man working behind a delicatessen counter, with an African American woman standing in front of it Creator: Finley, Tom. Date: 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
40. The Oliver Street School for Colored Children, Winchester, Ky. : African American men, women and children posed outside the school [hand colored] Creator: E. C. Kropp Co. Date: September 7, 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
41. Portrait of a young African American woman Creator: Radd. Date: June 9, 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
42. A typical Negro hut in the Sandhill section of North Carolina Creator: Howe's Shop (Southern Pines, N.C.) Date: February 2, 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
43. African American women and girls wearing dresses, posing in front of a building Date: October 21, 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
45. Signed picture of Daisy to Billy White Creator: Hivoly (Los Angeles, Calif.) Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
46. The World's Greatest Boys and Girls Drum and Bugle Corps of Hamtramck, Michigan : founded in 1933 by Col. Leo Whittaker Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
47. Mary McLeod Bethune and Roland Hayes, standing in front of a building Date: 1934 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
48. Portrait of Adelaide Hall in a dress with her hands crossed on her left shoulder and below her face Creator: Gibson (Chicago) Date: April 9, 1934 Format: Still image Access: Public
49. Portrait of an older African American woman Creator: Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942. Date: 1934 Format: Still image Access: Public
50. Schoolchildren and teacher in front of a rural school house in Georgia Creator: Song Shot Service. Date: 1934 Format: Still image Access: Public
51. Signed picture of a woman in a sweater to her mother Date: December 1934 Format: Still image Access: Public
52. Three women in front of Maizie's Beauty Shoppe Creator: Lollar's. Date: May 22, 1934 Format: Still image Access: Public
53. African American man and women standing on the front steps of a building Date: 1935 Format: Still image Access: Public
56. Portrait of an African American woman holding flowers Date: November 24, 1935 Format: Still image Access: Public
58. Unidentified women, 1935 [prize ribbon attached] Creator: Whipps Studio. Date: 1935 Format: Still image Access: Public
59. 9th Anniversary of Radio Beauty Parlor Creator: Fred Hess & Son. Date: May 31, 1936 Format: Still image Access: Public
60. African American man in a military uniform standing with a woman and several children Date: December 15, 1936 Format: Still image Access: Public
61. Seven men dressed in suits, including J. Mercer Bursell and J. Finley Wilson, and an African American woman in a dress standing behind a table with paintings on the wall behind them Date: April 26, 1936 Format: Still image Access: Public
62. Walter White, Royal Wilkins, William Patterson, and other women and children posing in front of a Coca Cola advertisement in 1936 Date: 1936 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
63. Floyd Ray and his orchestra : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.) Date: April 19, 1937 Format: Still image Access: Public
64. Graduating class, February 1937, of the Kingrow School of Beauty Culture, posing in a church building Creator: Schnall (Philadelphia, Pa.) Date: February 1937 Format: Still image Access: Public
65. A group of African American female teachers from the summer session at Spellman in Atlanta Georgia in 1937 Creator: Kelly (Atlanta, Ga.) Date: 1937 Format: Still image Access: Public
66. Post-graduate class of Provident Hospital, Chicago, watching doctor and nurse perform surgery Date: July 13, 1937 Format: Still image Access: Public
67. African American men, women and children at the feast in honor of the ninth anniversary of the reincarnation of the Prophet Noble Drew Ali Date: August 7, 1938 Format: Still image Access: Public
68. African American woman wearing a dress and fur coat Date: 1938 Format: Still image Access: Public
69. Black Women's Sorority Sigma Gamma Rho closed banquet Date: December 29, 1938 Format: Still image Access: Public
70. The McCormick Silver Jublee Singers, in match tuxedos, one woman sitting on a piano bench Creator: Harrison. Date: March 13, 1938 Format: Still image Access: Public
71. The Old North State : cotton pickers in a cotton field [hand colored] Creator: Asheville Post Card Co. (Asheville, N.C.) Date: August 24, 1938 Format: Still image Access: Public
73. Women of the A.E.A.O.N.M.S. Daugthers of Isis headquarters Date: August 14, 1938 Format: Still image Access: Public
74. Five African American men an women behind a WJBK radio microphone Creator: Pitas, O. B. Date: August 6, 1939 Format: Still image Access: Public
75. Madam C.J. Walker College of Beauty Culture Graduation Class, March 26th 1939 Creator: Madam C.J. Walker College of Beauty Culture (Kansas City, Mo.) Date: March 26, 1939 Format: Still image Access: Public
76. Silas Green Band in front of train car in 1939 with Native American entertainer Date: December 2, 1939 Format: Still image Access: Public
77. Group of women, one girl and one man behind bushes but in front of building Date: 1940s Format: Still image Access: Public
78. Johanna Baker singing holding a microphone at a Black nite club Date: 1940s Format: Still image Access: Public
79. Lincoln colored drive-in movie Creator: Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007. Date: 1940s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
80. Miss Augusta Savage with members of the Art Crafts Guild Creator: Berkley. Date: 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
81. Picture of Billie Holiday in a dress with Jimmy Powell holding an alto saxophone, Roy Eldridge playing a trumpet, Sonny White playing the piano and John Williams with all the men wearing suits and three of them wearing hats Date: 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
82. Picture of Billie Holiday wearing a dress seated on a chair with Sonny White, Lawrence Lucie, John Williams, Kermit Scott, Jimmy Powell, Harold Doc West dressed in suits and hats standing around her Date: 1940 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
83. Side view of Sarah Vaughan wearing a dress singing behind a microphone Date: 1940s Format: Still image Access: Public
84. Three women, one holding dog, another holding baby Creator: Kodatone. Date: July 29, 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
85. Vocalion recording session with Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Billie Holliday singing, Jimmy Powell and Carl Frye on alto sax, Kermit Scott on tenor sax, Sonny White on piano, Lawrence Lucie on guitar, John Williams on bass and Doc West on drums Date: February 29, 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
86. An young African American woman wearing a skirt, blouse and jacket standing by the steps in front of a hair cutting parlor Date: May 28, 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
87. An African American man and African American woman doing the jitterbug on Ebbetts Field at halftime Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
88. An African American man and an African American woman doing the jitterbug at Ebbetts Field at halftime Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
89. African American woman holding a small boy on her knee Creator: Fox Co. Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
90. An African American woman in a dress holding a purse standing in front of some tall grass with a fence and tree in the background Creator: Peoples Drug Stores, inc. Date: August 5, 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
91. Ann Robinson in a dress singing at Village Vanguard Club in New York with men and women seated at tables behind her Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
92. Billie Holiday in a dress performing at Famous Door Club in N.Y.C. with men and women seated at tables in the background Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
93. Billie Holiday performing with Babe Russin and Orchestra at Famous Door Club in New York with a man in a suit and a woman in a dress seated at a table in front of her Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
94. Billie Holliday, Babe Russin and orchestra performing at the Famous Doon Club, NYC Creator: Knopf, Hans J. Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
95. Lena Horne wearing a dress, high heel shoes, a hat, and a necklace seated in a chair with her feet resting on a sofa reading a script Date: 1941 approx. Format: Still image Access: Public
96. Man and woman doing the jitterbug on Ebbetts Field at halftime Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
97. Marian Anderson singing on a stage in Atlantic City, in front of an audience Date: August 19, 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
98. Natives working cane field in St. Croix, V.I. Creator: Albertype Co. Date: December 14, 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
99. Yvonne School of Beauty Culture : group of children, men and women with flowers on a stage with instruments in the background Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
100. African American men and African American women dancing in a large room with a wooden floor with a band and decorations in the background Creator: E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.) Date: December 28, 1942 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required