1. Oval portrait of John Grant Burns Creator: Harrison. Date: May 3, 1902 Format: Still image Access: Public
2. 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
3. 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
4. Newsboys of the South Creator: Mellen Photo Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: April 1908 Format: Still image Access: Public
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. A watermelon feast, Florida [hand colored] Creator: C. T. American Art (Chicago, Ill.) Date: November 16, 1912 Format: Still image Access: Public
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. Wash day on the old plantation [hand colored] Creator: Acmegraph Co. (Chicago, Ill.) Date: February 3, 1913 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
13. 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
14. No fudging : four African American boys playing dice [hand colored] Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: September 9, 1916 Format: Still image Access: Public
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. Portrait of Blanche Calloway Creator: DeHaven (Chicago, Ill.) Date: 1920s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. Signed picture of Cab Calloway and his band to Frankie Martin Creator: Bloom. Date: March 16, 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
24. Elijah Shaw with marimba Creator: Harrison's Studio. Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
26. Soldiers with drums in front of Chicago Defender building Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
27. Soldiers with flags in front of Chicago Defender building Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
28. Earl Hines and band sitting near stage Creator: Besoiy. Date: April 2, 1934 Format: Still image Access: Public
29. 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
30. 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
31. Peg Leg Bate in a suit and hat Creator: Maurice (Chicago) Date: June 7, 1935 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
32. Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) and Leroy Carr : Chicago (Ill.) Creator: Driggs, Frank. Date: 1935 Format: Still image Access: Public
33. The Four Vagabonds, an African American musical group Creator: Seymour, Maurice, 1904- Date: August 11, 1936 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
34. Post-graduate class of Provident Hospital, Chicago, watching doctor and nurse perform surgery Date: July 13, 1937 Format: Still image Access: Public
35. 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
36. 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
37. Miss Augusta Savage with members of the Art Crafts Guild Creator: Berkley. Date: 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
38. Signed picture of Bon Bon Tunnell to Artie Creator: Bloom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: July 31, 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
39. A busy day in the cotton field : greetings from Palacios, Texas Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: August 18, 1941 Format: Still image Access: Public
40. Illinois Technical School for Colored Girls Creator: Artvue Post Card Co. (New York, N.Y.) Date: July 15, 1942 Format: Still image Access: Public
41. United Transport Service Employees of America Creator: Douglas Photo Studio. Date: 1946 Format: Still image Access: Public
42. Jimmy Walker [Homesick James] and B. Watson : musicians, Chicago, 1948 Date: 1948 Format: Still image Access: Public
43. 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
44. 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
45. Advertising : Gene Smith's Fore-Notes Creator: National Press, Inc. (North Chicago, Ill.) Date: May 14, 1959 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
46. 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
47. Five African American men harvesting sugarcane in the Florida Everglades Creator: Curt Teich & Co. Date: February 19, 1960 Format: Still image Access: Public
48. Chicago teachers strike Creator: Wide World Photos. Date: January 10, 1973 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
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