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1.
Mr. Earle and woman standing in a pharmacy in Brooklyn

Date:

1920s to 1930s

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Picture of Lucille Hegamin wearing a dress standing sideways

Creator:

Elcha (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1920s

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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

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Praline seller, New Orleans, La. [hand colored]

Creator:

New Orleans News Company (New Orleans, La.)

Date:

March 20, 1925

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5.
Students posing with diplomas and flowers at Boggs School, GA

Date:

1925

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6.
Irene Adams, Will o' the Wisp maid

Date:

February 6, 1926

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7.
Knoxville Colored High School class of '26

Creator:

Browder's Studio.

Date:

1926

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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

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9.
African American woman holding dolls

Creator:

Walery.

Date:

1927

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10.
On the levee : Mississippi flood, 1927

Creator:

Coovert's Studio (Memphis, Tenn.)

Date:

1927

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A portrait of an African American bride and groom

Date:

July 10, 1927

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12.
African American women in ranger-like uniforms at Fort Worth, Texas

Date:

July 2, 1928

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13.
Women and girls from Mwalimu School holding bouquets

Date:

1928

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14.
African American men and women at the State Association in Marion, S.C. on June 18-20, 1929

Date:

June 1929

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15.
Group picture of Universal Life Insurance Co. stock holders in front of entrance to the home office of Universal Life Insurance Co.

Date:

1929

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16.
Man and woman walking in the street

Creator:

Star Photos.

Date:

January 5, 1929

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17.
Portrait of Adelaide Hall wearing a dress and hat

Creator:

Ebue Studio (N.Y.)

Date:

1929

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18.
Portrait of Edna Wise Barr, broadway star

Creator:

Canell Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1929

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19.
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

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20.
African American women sitting on a sofa, with more women standing behind them, in the Selambra Club, New York

Date:

1930

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21.
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

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22.
Portrait of Willa, an African American woman

Date:

1930

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23.
African American women basketball team with their coach

Date:

1931

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24.
Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson in 1931

Creator:

Ben.

Date:

1931

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25.
Portrait of an African American woman wearing a scarf around her neck

Creator:

Divoli Photo Studio.

Date:

1931

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26.
Portrait of an African American woman wearing a scarf around her neck

Creator:

Divoli Photo Studio.

Date:

1931

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27.
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

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28.
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

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29.
Aphonso Trent's Orchestra in Memphis, Tenn., 1932

Creator:

Jones-Purdyes Photographers.

Date:

1932

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30.
Lil Armstrong's (stage) orchestra starting tour at Kendonne Theater, Buffalo (N.Y.)

Date:

1932

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31.
Man working behind a delicatessen counter, with an African American woman standing in front of it

Creator:

Finley, Tom.

Date:

1932

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32.
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

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Still image

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33.
Portrait of a young African American woman

Creator:

Radd.

Date:

June 9, 1932

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Still image

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34.
A typical Negro hut in the Sandhill section of North Carolina

Creator:

Howe's Shop (Southern Pines, N.C.)

Date:

February 2, 1932

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35.
African American women and girls wearing dresses, posing in front of a building

Date:

October 21, 1933

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36.
Dancers in leopard spot skin costumes

Date:

October 18, 1933

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37.
Signed picture of Daisy to Billy White

Creator:

Hivoly (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Date:

1933

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38.
The World's Greatest Boys and Girls Drum and Bugle Corps of Hamtramck, Michigan : founded in 1933 by Col. Leo Whittaker

Date:

1933

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39.
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

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40.
Portrait of an older African American woman

Creator:

Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942.

Date:

1934

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41.
Schoolchildren and teacher in front of a rural school house in Georgia

Creator:

Song Shot Service.

Date:

1934

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42.
Signed picture of a woman in a sweater to her mother

Date:

December 1934

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43.
Three women in front of Maizie's Beauty Shoppe

Creator:

Lollar's.

Date:

May 22, 1934

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44.
African American man and women standing on the front steps of a building

Date:

1935

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45.
Apex class of 1935, Newark, N.J.

Date:

1935

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46.
Portrait of an African American woman

Date:

May 18, 1935

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47.
Portrait of an African American woman holding flowers

Date:

November 24, 1935

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48.
Portrait of Maxine Maxwell

Date:

1935

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49.
Unidentified women, 1935 [prize ribbon attached]

Creator:

Whipps Studio.

Date:

1935

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50.
9th Anniversary of Radio Beauty Parlor

Creator:

Fred Hess & Son.

Date:

May 31, 1936

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51.
African American man in a military uniform standing with a woman and several children

Date:

December 15, 1936

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52.
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

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53.
Floyd Ray and his orchestra : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)

Date:

April 19, 1937

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54.
Graduating class, February 1937, of the Kingrow School of Beauty Culture, posing in a church building

Creator:

Schnall (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

February 1937

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55.
A group of African American female teachers from the summer session at Spellman in Atlanta Georgia in 1937

Creator:

Kelly (Atlanta, Ga.)

Date:

1937

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56.
Post-graduate class of Provident Hospital, Chicago, watching doctor and nurse perform surgery

Date:

July 13, 1937

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57.
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

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58.
African American woman wearing a dress and fur coat

Date:

1938

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59.
Black Women's Sorority Sigma Gamma Rho closed banquet

Date:

December 29, 1938

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60.
The McCormick Silver Jublee Singers, in match tuxedos, one woman sitting on a piano bench

Creator:

Harrison.

Date:

March 13, 1938

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61.
The Old North State : cotton pickers in a cotton field [hand colored]

Creator:

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

Date:

August 24, 1938

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62.
Portrait of Mary Ann Prout

Date:

January 11, 1938

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63.
Women of the A.E.A.O.N.M.S. Daugthers of Isis headquarters

Date:

August 14, 1938

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64.
Five African American men an women behind a WJBK radio microphone

Creator:

Pitas, O. B.

Date:

August 6, 1939

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65.
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

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66.
Silas Green Band in front of train car in 1939 with Native American entertainer

Date:

December 2, 1939

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67.
Group of women, one girl and one man behind bushes but in front of building

Date:

1940s

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68.
Johanna Baker singing holding a microphone at a Black nite club

Date:

1940s

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69.
Miss Augusta Savage with members of the Art Crafts Guild

Creator:

Berkley.

Date:

1940

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70.
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

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71.
Side view of Sarah Vaughan wearing a dress singing behind a microphone

Date:

1940s

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72.
Three women, one holding dog, another holding baby

Creator:

Kodatone.

Date:

July 29, 1940

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73.
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

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74.
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

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75.
An African American man and African American woman doing the jitterbug on Ebbetts Field at halftime

Date:

1941

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76.
An African American man and an African American woman doing the jitterbug at Ebbetts Field at halftime

Date:

1941

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77.
African American woman holding a small boy on her knee

Creator:

Fox Co.

Date:

1941

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78.
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

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79.
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

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80.
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

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81.
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.

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82.
Man and woman doing the jitterbug on Ebbetts Field at halftime

Date:

1941

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83.
Marian Anderson singing on a stage in Atlantic City, in front of an audience

Date:

August 19, 1941

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84.
Natives working cane field in St. Croix, V.I.

Creator:

Albertype Co.

Date:

December 14, 1941

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85.
Yvonne School of Beauty Culture : group of children, men and women with flowers on a stage with instruments in the background

Date:

1941

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86.
Billie Smith wearing a dress and fur coat, standing next to a man wearing a suit and holding a hat

Creator:

Woodley, Jesse E.

Date:

February 13, 1942

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87.
Margaret Walker standing behind a WMCA microphone surrounded by Nicodemus, Noble Sissle and three other men

Date:

between 1942 and 1944

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88.
Men and women standing behind a hand-railing during the progressive spiritualist graduation

Creator:

Moore.

Date:

1942

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89.
A portrait of an African American woman wearing a dress, earrings and necklace

Date:

August 12, 1942

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90.
Soldiers and women at a party with balloons

Creator:

H. F. Joseph Studios.

Date:

December 9, 1942

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91.
Soldiers and women at birthday party

Creator:

H. F. Joseph Studios.

Date:

October 20, 1942

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92.
WPA chorus on stage next to piano

Date:

February 20, 1942

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93.
An African American man in a trenchcoat and hat standing with an African American woman in a dress standing on the porch of a house with snow on the ground

Date:

January 19, 1943

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94.
Men and women marching at Fort Huachuca, Arizona

Creator:

Signal Corps (U.S. Army)

Date:

1943

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95.
United States Army, Station Hospital, 268th, October 5, 1943 [panorama]

Creator:

LaPerla Studio.

Date:

October 5, 1943

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96.
Craig School of Beauty Culture, Graduating Class of 1944, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Creator:

Photo Illustrators (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1944

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97.
Five men and woman around Mr. Jackson's desk

Creator:

Ensminger Studio.

Date:

October 12, 1944

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98.
Men, women, girls and boys at a confirmation with two robed men in front

Creator:

Lawson Foto.

Date:

1944

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99.
Women in a Navy Training School

Date:

1944

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100.
1st African-American WAC unit in Rouen, France

Creator:

United States. Army. Signal Corps. Photographic Center.

Date:

May 27, 1945

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Still image

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