1. Advertising : Gene Smith's Fore-Notes Creator: National Press, Inc. (North Chicago, Ill.) Date: May 14, 1959 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
2. Aerial views of Piney Woods School in Piney Woods, Miss. Creator: Genuine Curteich (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
3. African American boy standing next to a bench Creator: Doloris Studio (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
4. An African American male actor on stage with three men dressed as tigers Creator: Stewart, Charles, Jr. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
5. African American man in a suit with his hands in his front pockets Creator: Maurice. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
6. African American man wearing a coat, sitting in a chair Creator: Stevens Studio. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
7. 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
8. African American woman dressing African American children with Easter Bunny ears Creator: Chicago Tribune Photo. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
9. An African American woman sitting in a chair holding a book Creator: Electric Studio (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
10. 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
11. Argenta Colored School, Argenta, Ark. Creator: Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
12. Autographed photograph of Rudolph Johnson, Epps and Bell, the 3 Lightning Flashes Creator: Maurice. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
13. Autographed portrait of Duke Ellington : addressed to Avis Maxwell Creator: Maurice (Chicago) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
14. Bales of cotton ready for shipment [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
15. Bon Bon Tunnell in spotlight Creator: Bloom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
16. 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
17. Brotherhood union and deacons wives Creator: Coleman, Charles, Mr. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
18. 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
19. A busy day in the cotton field : greetings from Palacios, Texas Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: August 18, 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
20. C.T. cotton picking scenes : 10 subjects Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
21. 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
22. 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
23. Celery farm, Sanford, Fla. [hand colored] Creator: T. C. Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
24. Chicago teachers strike Creator: Wide World Photos. Date: January 10, 1973 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. Cotton picking time : African Americans picking cotton [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
31. Cotton picking time in Blytheville, Ark. [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
32. 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
33. Dinner time in Dixie land [hand colored] Creator: C T Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
34. 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
35. Don Redman and his orchestra Creator: Theatrical Chicago. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
36. Down in Dixie : five African American boys next to a fence [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
37. 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
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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
41. Dulaney Hall : Goodwill Hall : Lake McKay Community Club Creator: Genuine Curteich (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
42. Earl Hines and band sitting near stage Creator: Besoiy. Date: April 2, 1934 Format: Still image Access: Public
43. Elijah Shaw with marimba Creator: Harrison's Studio. Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
44. Ella G. Berry, grand daughter ruler, Chicago, Illinois Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. Fish hatcheries, Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo. Creator: V. O. Hammon Pub. Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
49. Five African American men harvesting sugarcane in the Florida Everglades Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: February 19, 1960 Format: Still image Access: Public
50. The five women and one man of The Caravans Creator: Maurice (Chicago) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
51. The Four Vagabonds, an African American musical group Creator: Seymour, Maurice, 1904- Date: August 11, 1936 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
52. 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
53. 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
54. Greetings from Brownsville, Tenn. Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
55. Greetings from Brownsville, Tenn. [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
56. 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
57. 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
58. Greetings from Walterboro, S.C. [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
59. 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
61. 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
62. 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
63. Group shot of the women of the Junior Matrons Auxiliary Creator: Worthington Studio. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
64. A happy fiddler from Dixie Land [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
65. Hauling cotton to market : two African American men each riding on top of a wagon filled with cotton each wagon pulled by two mules along a dirt road [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
66. Hauling cotton to market [hand colored] Creator: Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
67. Have a drink, Sir : an African American girl pulling a bucket of water from a well : five children and a woman in the background Creator: C. T. Photochrom. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
68. Honors for Duke : Duke Ellington receives from Dr. Martin Luther King a placque from the American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority expressing gratitude for Ellington's outstanding contributions to A Century of Negro Progress exposition Creator: Rhoden's Photo and Press Service. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
69. I have hoed in fields of cotton : an African American girl next to a cotton field, holding a hoe [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
70. I've hoed in fields of cotton : an African American girl next to a cotton field, holding a hoe [hand colored] Creator: C. T. American Art (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
71. Igorrote Village, Season 1906, Riverview-Park, Chicago [hand colored] Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
72. Illinois Technical School for Colored Girls Creator: Artvue Post Card Co. (New York, N.Y.) Date: July 15, 1942 Format: Still image Access: Public
73. Jimmy Walker [Homesick James] and B. Watson : musicians, Chicago, 1948 Date: 1948 Format: Still image Access: Public
74. Laura Lee Moys, an African American young woman, standing and posing wearing a dress with a flower on it, and a necklace Creator: Columbia Medallion Studios (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
75. Library : goat dairy : dry cleaning department at Piney Woods Country School (Miss.) Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
76. Lift Every Voice and Sing : a sculpture of a harp made of people Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
77. Line of 3 African American women in dresses in front of a line of African American men dancing Creator: Noodard Studio (Chicago) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
78. 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
79. Loading compressed bales of cotton into the hold of a vessel for export, Pensacola, Fla. [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
80. 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
81. Logging scene in the south Creator: C. T. Photochrom. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
83. Man pointing at a machine, with another man watching him Creator: Simmons, Lonnie. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
84. Margaret Whitlow in a bikini with a feathered skirt and feather fans Creator: Marks (Chicago) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
85. 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
86. Mechanical cotton picker : an African American man using a mechanical cotton picker [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
87. Mechanical cotton picker : an African American man using a mechanical cotton picker [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
88. Mechanical cotton picker : an African American man using a mechanical cotton picker [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
89. Men and women picking cotton in a field in Arkansas, with a man sitting on a horse, and another standing on a cart Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
91. Men looking at a machine part, next to a large camera Creator: Simmons, Lonnie. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
92. Men unloading bananas from cargo ships on a conveyor belt in Tampa, Florida Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
93. Miss Augusta Savage with members of the Art Crafts Guild Creator: Berkley. Date: 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
94. 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
95. Mississippi River packet with large load of cotton [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
96. Mister Mike's Steak House, open hearth steaks Creator: Colourpicture Publishers (Firm) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
97. Music hath charms [hand colored] Creator: C. T. American Art (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
98. Music hath charms in Dixie Land Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
99. My heart turned back to Dixie : an African American man in a cotton field with a basket of cotton on his shoulder [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
100. My old log cabin : with an old African American man chopping wood out front, and another man and woman sitting down Creator: C. T. Photochrom. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public