Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

The Photographs and Prints Division contains both documentary and fine art photographs, which document the history and culture of people of African descent worldwide as well as the work of photographers of African descent. The collection of over 300,000 images ranges from mid-eighteenth century graphics to contemporary documentary and art photography; all of the major photographic processes are represented.

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Contact sheet of photographs from National Day of Mourning

Contact sheet of photographs from National Day of Mourning

 Portrait of James Baldwin

Portrait of James Baldwin

Rosa Parks arrives for trial

Rosa Parks arrives for trial

Malcolm X at home with wife Betty and daughters Attallah and Quibilah

Malcolm X at home with wife Betty and daughters Attallah and Quibilah

Malcolm X - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Look Magazine 1962

Malcolm X - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Look Magazine 1962

West African delegate to the United Nations meet with Malcolm circa 1963 at New York City United Nations reception

West African delegate to the United Nations meet with Malcolm circa 1963 at New York City United Nations reception

Betty Shabazz holding Qubilah, circa 1960

Betty Shabazz holding Qubilah, circa 1960

Portrait of Malcolm X

Portrait of Malcolm X

 Fredi Washington, James Light, and the cast of Lysistrata

Fredi Washington, James Light, and the cast of Lysistrata

Fredi Washington Bell and Hugh Anthony Bell sharing wedding cake

Fredi Washington Bell and Hugh Anthony Bell sharing wedding cake

The Barry Gray Show, with Gloster B. Current, Ossie Davis and Malcolm X

The Barry Gray Show, with Gloster B. Current, Ossie Davis and Malcolm X

Gloster B. Current, Ruby Dee, and Malcolm X at radio station WMCA

Gloster B. Current, Ruby Dee, and Malcolm X at radio station WMCA

The Barry Gray Show with James Farmer, Gloster B. Current,  Ossie Davis, Malcolm X, and actress Ruby Dee partially visible behind Farmer

The Barry Gray Show with James Farmer, Gloster B. Current, Ossie Davis, Malcolm X, and actress Ruby Dee partially visible behind Farmer

Malcolm X, Ruby Dee and radio program host Barry Gray, at the radio station WMCA

Malcolm X, Ruby Dee and radio program host Barry Gray, at the radio station WMCA

The Barry Gray Show, with Ossie Davis, Malcolm X and Barry Gray

The Barry Gray Show, with Ossie Davis, Malcolm X and Barry Gray

Photograph of 135th Street Library

Photograph of 135th Street Library

Portrait of Arthur Schomburg by James Latimer Allen

Portrait of Arthur Schomburg by James Latimer Allen

Dr. Matthew, Mr. Schomburg, [third name illegible] taken by Dr. Johnson at Ray's Mountain, the YMCA Summer School

Dr. Matthew, Mr. Schomburg, [third name illegible] taken by Dr. Johnson at Ray's Mountain, the YMCA Summer School

Dr. Matthew, Mr. Schomburg, [third name illegible] taken by Dr. Johnson at Ray's Mountain, the YMCA Summer School

Dr. Matthew, Mr. Schomburg, [third name illegible] taken by Dr. Johnson at Ray's Mountain, the YMCA Summer School

Portrait of Schomburg at his desk

Portrait of Schomburg at his desk

Photograph of Schomburg with young woman

Photograph of Schomburg with young woman

James Stephens, Dr. C.P. McClendon, John E. Bruce and Arthur Schomburg at a gathering

James Stephens, Dr. C.P. McClendon, John E. Bruce and Arthur Schomburg at a gathering

Envelope addressed to Dr. Lawrence Dunbar Reddick

Envelope addressed to Dr. Lawrence Dunbar Reddick

Photograph of woman walking with book and gloves in hand, man in hat in the background

Photograph of woman walking with book and gloves in hand, man in hat in the background

Frontispiece of book page with Schomburg, signed

Frontispiece of book page with Schomburg, signed

Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

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Stereograph collection
849 items
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Print Collection
473 items
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Portrait collection
383 items
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Farm Security Administration Collection
221 items
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Military
157 items
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Federal Theatre Project - Theater Stills Collection
130 items
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Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection
123 items
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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg collection [graphic]
96 items
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Cartes-de-visite collection
91 items
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Education
87 items
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Austin Hansen photograph collection
84 items
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Street Scenes
81 items
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Art and Artists
69 items
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Occupations
65 items
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Miscellaneous nineteenth century collections
64 items
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Views of British Guiana; album
63 items
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Slavery
61 items
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Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits photograph collection
60 items
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Views of Jamaica
51 items
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Patrick Kelly photograph collection
44 items
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Vues D'Afrique
39 items
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Jesse Alexander photograph collection
39 items
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Cabinet card collection
38 items
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Regina Andrews photograph collection
37 items
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Lincoln School for Nurses photograph collection
36 items
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Gordon Parks portfolio
32 items
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National Youth Administration collection
28 items
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 1987
25 items
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Album de Martinique
24 items
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Organizations
23 items
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Ellabelle Davis photograph collection
22 items
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Howard Orphanage and Industrial School photograph collection
21 items
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Demonstrations
21 items
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Harry A. Williamson Photograph Collection
18 items
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Nightclubs and theaters
17 items
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Schomburg Daguerreotype collection
17 items
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Schomburg Tintype collection
16 items
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Schomburg Ambrotype collection
15 items
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Dance
15 items
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Claudia Jones Memorial photograph collection
15 items
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Kurt Fisher Haitian history collection [graphic]
14 items
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Schuyler Family photograph collection
13 items
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Sports
12 items
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Businesses
12 items
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Wesley Williams photograph collection
12 items
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Club Cubano Inter-Americano photograph collection
12 items
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New York Jazz Museum Photograph Collection
11 items
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Civil Rights Congress photograph collection
11 items
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William N. and Isabele T. Spiller photograph collection
11 items
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Moorish Science Temple of America photograph collection
10 items
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Robert Clifton Weaver photograph collection
10 items
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Gordon Anderson collection
9 items
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International Labor Defense photograph collection
9 items
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George Brashear scrapbooks
9 items
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Photographs of New York City and Puerto Rico
9 items
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Postcard collection
9 items
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Augusta Savage photograph collection
9 items
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A. P. Bedou portfolio
9 items
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Housing
8 items
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Segregation and integration
8 items
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Ada "Bricktop" Smith photograph collection
7 items
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Schomburg Center photograph collection
7 items
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Joe Nash black dance photograph collection
7 items
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Kenneth W. Porter photograph collection
7 items
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Gwendolyn Bennett photograph collection
7 items
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The Malcolm X collection: photographs
7 items
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Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil
6 items
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Brazil, 1860-1900
6 items
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Magazines and Newspapers
6 items
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Asadata Dafora photograph collection
6 items
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National Negro Congress photograph collection
6 items
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American Negro Theatre Alumni photograph collection
6 items
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Meta Warrick Fuller photograph collection
6 items
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Fredi Washington photograph collection
5 items
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Entertainers
5 items
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Ceremonies and celebrations
5 items
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Berenice Abbott portfolio collection
5 items
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Beauty culture
5 items
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Bonnie Clark collection
5 items
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George W. Westerman photograph collection
5 items
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Harper's weekly
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Manhattanville: an architectural retrospect
5 items
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William Pickens photograph collection
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Nanette Bearden photograph collection
5 items
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Haitian Revolution, 1946
4 items
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William Stanley Braithwaite photograph collection
4 items
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Lawrence D. Reddick photograph collection
4 items
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Migration
4 items
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James Van Der Zee portfolio
4 items
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Children
4 items
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Richard Saunders photographs
4 items
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Colonial Dance Orchestra portrait collection
4 items
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Frank R. Crosswaith photograph collection
4 items
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Libraries
4 items
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Vulcan Society photograph collection
4 items
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Architecture
4 items
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Countdown to eternity: photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960's
3 items
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The Homesteader Motion Picture Stills Collection
3 items
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The Wages of Sin Motion Picture Stills Collection
3 items
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Léon-Gontran Damas photograph collection
3 items
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Hilda Simms photograph collection
3 items
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Jones-Sadler Family photograph collection
3 items
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William "Pop" Gates photograph collection
3 items
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C.L. Baley collection
3 items
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Josephine Baker scrapbooks
3 items
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Lawrence Brown photograph collection
3 items
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Jamaica, 1880-1900
3 items
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Crime and criminals
3 items
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Sonny Rollins photograph collection
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Panoramic views collection
3 items
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James Weldon Johnson photograph collection
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Dean Dixon photograph collection
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A. Philip Randolph Institute collection
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Lynching
3 items
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Cabin in the Sky Motion Picture Stills Collection
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Hallelujah Motion Picture Stills Collection
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Imitation of Life Motion Picture Stills Collection
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The Jackie Robinson Story Motion Picture Stills Collection
2 items
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Lafargue Clinic photograph collection
2 items
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Inventors and inventions
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters photograph collection
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James Baldwin photograph collection
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Stevedore theater stills collection
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Lester A. Walton photograph collection
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Cartoons and stereotypes
2 items
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Frederick O'Neal photograph collection
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Canada Lee photograph collection
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Oscar Micheaux photograph collection
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Stormé DeLarverié photographs
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Willcox collection
2 items
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Musicians
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Negro Actors Guild of America photograph collection
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Edna Thomas collection
2 items
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American Negro Theatre photograph collection
2 items
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Albert Victor Johnson collection
2 items
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Mabel Mercer photograph collection
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Nat King Cole photograph collection
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John Henrik Clarke photograph collection
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Glenn Carrington photograph collection
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Ralph J. Bunche photograph collection
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Reconstruction collection
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Negro Labor Committee photograph collection
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Government
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The dandy slave
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Jogar Capoëra, ou danse de la guerre
1 item
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Harlem Scrapbook (Franklin F. Hopper Scrapbook)
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Parades
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Edward Schwartz Portfolio
1 item
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Althea Gibson collection
1 item
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Elease Perkins collection
1 item
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Hiram Revels photograph collection
1 item
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Eusebia Cosme photograph collection
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Exceptional Black scientists photograph collection
1 item
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Madam C.J. Walker collection
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P. Jay Sidney collection
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Anita Bush Stock Company.
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Big Fella Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
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Broadsides, posters and playbills
1 item
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Shivery family photograph collection
1 item
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Goin' a Buffalo Theater Stills Collection
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Ewart Guinier photograph collection
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The Inter-state Tattler photograph collection
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Gunsaulus Mystery Motion Picture Stills Collection
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Inge Hardison portfolio
1 item
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Harlem Theater Stills Collection
1 item
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Joseph Beam photograph collection
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Lorraine Hansberry Photograph Collection
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Caribbean area - Trinidad
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Murder in Harlem Motion Picture Stills Collection
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Julian Mayfield photograph collection
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Sanders of the River Motion Picture Stills Collection
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Shuffle along theater stills collection
1 item
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Swing Motion Picture Stills Collection
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The Birth of a Nation Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
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Guichard Parris photograph collection
1 item
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The Notorious Elinor Lee Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee collection
1 item
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Underworld Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
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Within Our Gates Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
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Joel E. and Amy E. Spingarn photograph collection
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John Brown portrait Collection
1 item
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Middleton A. "Spike" Harris photograph collection
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Columbia 1880-1900
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Muriel Petioni photograph collection
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A Negro holiday in Havana
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Morgan and Marvin Smith Collection
1 item
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Anna Lucasta theater stills collection
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Conrad-Tubman photograph collection
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Religion
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Williams & Walker musical comedies (oversize)
1 item
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Ku Klux Klan
1 item
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The Zulu and the zayda theater stills collection
1 item
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Leigh Rollin Whipper photograph collection
1 item
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A cudgelling match between English & French Negroes in the island of Dominica
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Baptism in community of Gullah descendants in North Carolina
1 item
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William H. Butler photograph collection
1 item
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Mifflin Wistar Gibbs portrait collection
1 item
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Morgan and Marvin Smith Collection (Additions)
1 item
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Scurlock Studio portfolio
1 item
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Vocalists and vocal groups
1 item
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Alberta Hunter photograph collection
1 item
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Robin W. Winks blacks in Canada photograph collection
1 item
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Four Saints in Three Acts Theater Stills Collection
1 item
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Assotto Saint photograph collection
1 item
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Black residents near the Capitol in Washington
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Sheet Music Collection
1 item
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater photograph collection
1 item
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Booker T. Washington, Principal of Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.
1 item
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Radio
1 item
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Africa
1 item
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Caterina Jarboro photograph collection
1 item
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Wilhelmina Adams photograph collection
1 item
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Muriel Rahn portrait collection
1 item
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Church buildings
1 item
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Place Du Geffrard, Port-au-Prince
1 item
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A Raisin in the sun theater stills collection
1 item
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Harry Belafonte photographs
1 item
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Africa 1870-1899
1 item
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Peter Williams Portrait Collection
1 item
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Maurice Hunter scrapbooks
1 item
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Photographs of Malcolm X
1 item