1. Chicago teachers strike Creator: Wide World Photos. Date: January 10, 1973 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
2. Five African American men harvesting sugarcane in the Florida Everglades Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: February 19, 1960 Format: Still image Access: Public
3. Advertising : Gene Smith's Fore-Notes Creator: National Press, Inc. (North Chicago, Ill.) Date: May 14, 1959 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
4. 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
5. Rock python snake, 16 ft. long, weighs 225 lbs. at Casper's Ostrich and Alligator Farm, St. Augustine, Fla. [hand colored] Creator: C. T. American Art (Chicago, Ill.) Date: August 24, 1954 Format: Still image Access: Public
6. Greetings from Walnut Ridge, Arkansas : African American woman picking cotton in a field, in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: July 12, 1950 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
7. Jimmy Walker [Homesick James] and B. Watson : musicians, Chicago, 1948 Date: 1948 Format: Still image Access: Public
8. United Transport Service Employees of America Creator: Douglas Photo Studio. Date: 1946 Format: Still image Access: Public
9. Illinois Technical School for Colored Girls Creator: Artvue Post Card Co. (New York, N.Y.) Date: July 15, 1942 Format: Still image Access: Public
10. A busy day in the cotton field : greetings from Palacios, Texas Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: August 18, 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
11. Little Bill Gaither, Memphis Slim and Big Bill Broonzy in photography studio, Chicago (Ill.) Creator: Studio Portrait Date: February 1940 approx. Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
12. Miss Augusta Savage with members of the Art Crafts Guild Creator: Berkley. Date: 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
13. Signed picture of Bon Bon Tunnell to Artie Creator: Bloom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: July 31, 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
14. 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
15. Post-graduate class of Provident Hospital, Chicago, watching doctor and nurse perform surgery Date: July 13, 1937 Format: Still image Access: Public
16. The Four Vagabonds, an African American musical group Creator: Seymour, Maurice, 1904- Date: August 11, 1936 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
17. Peg Leg Bate in a suit and hat Creator: Maurice (Chicago) Date: June 7, 1935 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
18. Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) and Leroy Carr : Chicago (Ill.) Creator: Driggs, Frank. Date: 1935 Format: Still image Access: Public
19. Earl Hines and band sitting near stage Creator: Besoiy. Date: April 2, 1934 Format: Still image Access: Public
20. 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
21. Prophet Noble Drew Ali Reincarnated and the Moorish Science Temple of America Creator: Barnard Studio (Chicago, Ill.) Date: August 1934 Format: Still image Access: Public
22. Elijah Shaw with marimba Creator: Harrison's Studio. Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
24. Soldiers with drums in front of Chicago Defender building Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
25. Soldiers with flags in front of Chicago Defender building Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
26. Signed picture of Cab Calloway and his band to Frankie Martin Creator: Bloom. Date: March 16, 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
27. 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
28. George Crawford in blackface, wearing a suit kneeling on one knee holding an open book in his left hand with his right hand held up Creator: Woodard's Studio (Chicago, Ill.) Date: 1927 Format: Still image Access: Public
29. Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt, vaudeville producers, writers, and performers Creator: Woodard's Studio (Chicago, Ill.) Date: 1927 Format: Still image Access: Public
30. Portrait of Blanche Calloway Creator: DeHaven (Chicago, Ill.) Date: 1920s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
32. A pyramid of cotton seed in sacks [hand colored] Creator: Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: October 15, 1919 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
33. Down where the cotton blossoms grow : African American men, women and children in a field of cotton blossoms [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: February 26, 1917 Format: Still image Access: Public
34. No fudging : four African American boys playing dice [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: September 9, 1916 Format: Still image Access: Public
35. Sweet contentment at the old cabin door in Dixie Land : with three African American children sitting on the steps Creator: C. T. Photochrom. Date: March 13, 1916 Format: Still image Access: Public
36. Southern negro cabin with animal carcases hanging on it : an African American man, woman and child sitting on the porch, with dogs Creator: C. T. Photochrom. Date: June 9, 1914 Format: Still image Access: Public
37. Loading cotton : men and women at a copping shipping yard [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: August 8, 1913 Format: Still image Access: Public
38. Romeo and Juliet in cotton field : an African American man and African American woman picking cotton together [hand colored] Date: April 25, 1913 Format: Still image Access: Public
39. Transportation of cotton by road : an African American man with a whip riding on top of a flat wagon, loaded with cotton, pulled by oxen, with an African American man standing by the wagon Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: October 3, 1913 Format: Still image Access: Public
40. Wash day on the old plantation [hand colored] Creator: Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: February 3, 1913 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
41. Sugar cane grinders : African American children sitting and standing in front of a fence, some holding sugarcanes [hand colored] Creator: T. C. Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: July 1912 Format: Still image Access: Public
42. A watermelon feast, Florida [hand colored] Creator: C. T. American Art (Chicago, Ill.) Date: November 16, 1912 Format: Still image Access: Public
43. Thank you reply from Father Quills of the Child Saving Union of the Mission of Our Lady of Mercy to Emma F. Kammore Date: June 29, 1910 Format: Still image Access: Public
44. Women picking cotton in a field, with a man on a horse, and another man standing on a cart Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: November 19, 1909 Format: Still image Access: Public
45. Newsboys of the South Creator: Mellen Photo Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: April 1908 Format: Still image Access: Public
46. Say, I hain't stole nuffin'! Dis was giv' to me, dis was! [hand colored] Creator: America Press (Chicago, Ill.) Date: March 4, 1907 Format: Still image Access: Public
47. Southern negro cabin with animal carcases hanging on it : an African American man, woman and child sitting on the porch, with dogs [hand colored] Creator: C. T. American Art. Date: January 1907 Format: Still image Access: Public
48. Oval portrait of John Grant Burns Creator: Harrison. Date: May 3, 1902 Format: Still image Access: Public
49. Aerial views of Piney Woods School in Piney Woods, Miss. Creator: Genuine Curteich (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
50. African American boy standing next to a bench Creator: Doloris Studio (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
51. An African American male actor on stage with three men dressed as tigers Creator: Stewart, Charles, Jr. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
52. African American man in a suit with his hands in his front pockets Creator: Maurice. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
53. African American man wearing a coat, sitting in a chair Creator: Stevens Studio. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
54. African American man, woman and children picking cotton in a field, in Arkansas Valley, Arkansas Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
55. African American woman dressing African American children with Easter Bunny ears Creator: Chicago Tribune Photo. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
56. An African American woman sitting in a chair holding a book Creator: Electric Studio (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
57. African American woman standing with her hands at her sides, wearing a dress, coat, fur scarf, gloves, and a hat with a feather in it Creator: Electric Studio (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
58. Argenta Colored School, Argenta, Ark. Creator: Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
59. Autographed photograph of Rudolph Johnson, Epps and Bell, the 3 Lightning Flashes Creator: Maurice. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
60. Autographed portrait of Duke Ellington : addressed to Avis Maxwell Creator: Maurice (Chicago) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
61. Bales of cotton ready for shipment [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
62. Bon Bon Tunnell in spotlight Creator: Bloom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
63. Booker T. Washington Junior High School, Atlanta, Ga., with a replica of the Tuskegee monument to Washington Creator: C. T. American Art (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
64. Brotherhood union and deacons wives Creator: Coleman, Charles, Mr. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
65. A busy day in the cotton field : African American men with bags over their shoulders picking cotton [hand colored] Creator: C. T. American Art (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
66. C.T. cotton picking scenes : 10 subjects Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
67. Cabin scene on Chickasaw Battlefield, Vicksburg, Miss. : two African American men sitting on the porch of a log cabin with laundry hanging up Creator: Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
68. Caddies of Great Southern Hotel, Gulfport, Miss : a caddie with two children who was also a bodyguard for Jefferson Davis Creator: C. T. Photochrom. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
69. Celery farm, Sanford, Fla. [hand colored] Creator: T. C. Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
70. Connie Rene_e in a spotlight wearing a dress with a cigarette in one hand Creator: Dene_t, Lue. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
71. Cotton harvest : an African American man standing behind a pile of cotton with his hand on a high box wagon in a cotton field with another African American man dumping cotton into the wagon [hand colored] Creator: C. T. American Art (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
72. Cotton pickers at work on Southern Plantation : five African American men picking cotton with two baskets of cotton and a man on horseback [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
73. Cotton pickers homeward bound : a group of African American men, African American women, African American boys and African American girls on a wagon with cotton in baskets pulled by two mules in a cotton field Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
74. Cotton pickers in Dixie : a group of African American men, African American women and African American children standing in a cotton field with a few trees [hand colored] Creator: Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
75. Cotton picking time : African Americans picking cotton [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
76. Cotton picking time in Blytheville, Ark. [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
77. The Delta Area of the Great Mississippi Valley : African Americans picking cotton in Helena, Arkansas Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
78. Dinner time in Dixie land [hand colored] Creator: C T Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
79. The domestic science building at Piney Woods School in Piney Woods, Miss. [hand colored] Creator: Genuine Curteich (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
80. Don Redman and his orchestra Creator: Theatrical Chicago. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
81. Down in Dixie : five African American boys next to a fence [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
82. Down where the cotton blossoms grow : a small group of African American men and African American women picking cotton [hand colored] Creator: Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
83. Down where the cotton blossoms grow : an African American woman and girl in a cotton field [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
84. Drying cotton : an African American woman in a cotton field with a basket full of cotton on her head [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
85. Dulaney Hall : Goodwill Hall : Lake McKay Community Club Creator: Genuine Curteich (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
86. Ella G. Berry, grand daughter ruler, Chicago, Illinois Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
87. Father Charles G. Hayes standing at an altar, handing a paper to another clergyman Creator: Alabama Post Card Co. (Bessemer, Ala.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
88. Father Charles G. Hayes standing on a set of stairs speaking into a microphone, while wearing a robe Creator: Alabama Post Card Co. (Bessemer, Ala.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
89. Field transportation in the Florida Everglades : [African American man on a tractor hauling away sugar cane] [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
90. Fish hatcheries, Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo. Creator: V. O. Hammon Pub. Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
91. The five women and one man of The Caravans Creator: Maurice (Chicago) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
92. Girls engaged in a dance routine during the Carnival Rhythm given by Newberry Avenue Center dance groups. Newberry Avenue Center Creator: Newberry Avenue Center. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
93. Greetings from Brownsville, Tenn. Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
94. Greetings from Brownsville, Tenn. [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
95. Greetings from New Orleans, La., Dixieland : a drawing of an African American man sleeping on a pile of cotton Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
96. Greetings from Walterboro, S.C. [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
97. Group picture of 4 African American men in tuxedos, top hats and canes, two African American women in dresses and an African American woman in a suit kneeling Creator: Noodard Studio (Chicago) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
99. Group shot of finely dressed men and women, three sitting on a rug Creator: Woodard's Studio (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
100. Group shot of the women of the Junior Matrons Auxiliary Creator: Worthington Studio. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required