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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.
Items in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division See More
Paul Robeson joining members of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP in a picket line in front of Ford's Theater, Baltimore.
Paul Robeson as Othello, Savoy Theatre, London
Paul Robeson at a podium, delivering a speech
Paul Robeson at the immigration station in Blaine, Washington
The Washington Bears basketball team with Pop Gates standing third from right
Pop Gates (at center in light color uniform) of the Dayton Rens, during a basketball game against the Anderson Packers
Group portrait of the Buffalo Bisons basketball team, with Pop Gates standing at center
Paul Robeson as Othello, and Uta Hagen as Desdemona, in a scene from the Theatre Guild presentation of "Othello"
Singer and bandleader Cab Calloway conducting his Orchestra, with chorus girls watching in the background
Studio portrait of singer and bandleader Cab Calloway
Candid portrait of singer and bandleader Cab Calloway with baton
Augusta Savage with two of her statuettes, entitled (left to right) “Susie Q” and Truckin’”
Augusta Savage (center) at the presentation of her bust of author and activist James Weldon Johnson
Augusta Savage (fourth from right) with a group visiting from the Chicago Institute for the Blind
Jersey City Quartermaster Repair Sub-Depot; Negro women play an important part in the conservation activities of the Quartermaster Corps; This view shows portions of metal repair operations; Among the items repaired in this section are canteens, mess kits, canteen cups, etc.
Workers of many races push plane output
Household employee icing a cake
Belle Calhoun, employee of the Lincoln Wire Company chosen Miss Negro War Worker...
War industry workers
Three African American women constructing a wooden skeleton frame
African American woman holding a perforated metallic box frame up to a piece of metalworking equipment
African American woman operating a large piece of machinery.
![Nailing Unit, Bldg. [building] # 11; Picatinny Arsenal; Ordnance department, February, 1944](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1260406&t=t)
Nailing Unit, Bldg. [building] # 11; Picatinny Arsenal; Ordnance department, February, 1944
![Lumber cutting unit, Bldg. [building] # 13; Picatinny Arsenal; Ordnance department, February, 1944](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1260407&t=t)
Lumber cutting unit, Bldg. [building] # 13; Picatinny Arsenal; Ordnance department, February, 1944
Train discharging employees at the bus parking lot, Picatinny Arsenal, November 1943
Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Stereograph collection
848 items
Print Collection
342 items
Farm Security Administration Collection
219 items
Portrait collection
165 items
Military
157 items
Federal Theatre Project Productions Theater Stills Collection
130 items
Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection
104 items
Cartes-de-visite collection
85 items
Views of British Guiana; album
63 items
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits photograph collection
54 items
Occupations
52 items
Views of Jamaica
51 items
Slavery
42 items
Jesse Alexander photograph collection
41 items
Street Scenes
40 items
Vues D'Afrique
39 items
Regina Andrews photograph collection
39 items
Cabinet card collection
38 items
Lincoln School for Nurses photograph collection
36 items
Austin Hansen collection
35 items
National Youth Administration collection
28 items
Album de Martinique
24 items
Motion Picture Stills Collection
23 items
Ellabelle Davis photograph collection
22 items
Howard Orphanage and Industrial School photograph collection
21 items
Organizations
17 items
Harry A. Williamson Photograph Collection
15 items
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg collection
15 items
Slavery
15 items
Claudia Jones Memorial photograph collection
14 items
Art and Artists
12 items
Schuyler Family photograph collection
11 items
Nightclubs and theaters
11 items
Education
11 items
Dance
10 items
Wesley Williams photograph collection
10 items
Civil Rights Congress photograph collection
9 items
George L. Brashear scrapbook
9 items
A. P. Bedou portfolio.
9 items
Miscellaneous nineteenth century collections
8 items
New York Jazz Museum Photograph Collection
7 items
Kenneth Porter Photograph Collection.
7 items
Sports
6 items
Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil.
6 items
Brazil, 1860-1900
6 items
Demonstrations
6 items
Gordon Anderson collection.
6 items
Robert Clifton Weaver photograph collection
6 items
Beauty culture.
5 items
George W. Westerman photograph collection
5 items
Harper's weekly.
5 items
Magazines and Newspapers
5 items
Meta Warrick Fuller photograph collection
5 items
Ada "Bricktop" Smith photograph collection
4 items
Joe Nash black dance photograph collection
4 items
Businesses
4 items
Occupations OLD record for gleaning
4 items
William Pickens photograph collection
4 items
Segregation and integration
4 items
Kurt Fisher Haitian History collection
4 items
The Wages of Sin Motion Picture Stills Collection
3 items
Schomburg Center photograph collection.
3 items
Ada "Bricktop" Smith photograph collection.
3 items
Club Cubano Inter-Americano photograph collection
3 items
William "Pop" Gates photograph collection
3 items
Hilda Simms photograph collection.
3 items
Frank R. Crosswaith photograph collection
3 items
Lynching.
3 items
Dean Dixon photograph collection
3 items
Libraries
3 items
American Negro Theatre Alumni photograph collection
3 items
Vulcan Society photograph collection
3 items
Reconstruction collection.
2 items
Cabin in the Sky Motion Picture Stills Collection
2 items
Hallelujah Motion Picture Stills Collection
2 items
Imitation of Life Motion Picture Stills Collection
2 items
The Jackie Robinson Story Motion Picture Stills Collection
2 items
William Stanley Braithwaite photograph collection
2 items
Léon-Gontran Damas photograph collection
2 items
Josephine Baker scrapbooks.
2 items
Cartoons and stereotypes.
2 items
Housing
2 items
Gwendolyn Bennett photograph collection
2 items
Augusta Savage photograph collection
2 items
Jamaica, 1880-1900
2 items
James Weldon Johnson photograph collection
2 items
American Negro Theatre photograph collection
2 items
Mabel Mercer photograph collection
2 items
Nat King Cole photograph collection.
2 items
Moorish Science Temple of America photograph collection.
2 items
Architecture
2 items
Government
1 item
Harlem Scrapbook (Franklin F. Hopper Scrapbook)
1 item
Hiram Revels photograph collection
1 item
Theater Stills
1 item
Madam C.J. Walker collection
1 item
P. Jay Sidney collection
1 item
Anna Lucasta Theater Stills Collection
1 item
Big Fella Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Broadsides, posters and playbills
1 item
Ewart Guinier photograph collection
1 item
Gunsaulus Mystery Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Harlem Theater Stills Collection
1 item
Katherine Handy Lewis photograph collection
1 item
Caribbean area - Trinidad.
1 item
Institute of the Black World photograph collection
1 item
Murder in Harlem Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
International Labor Defense photograph collection.
1 item
Julian Mayfield photograph collection
1 item
Sanders of the River Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Shuffle along theater stills collection
1 item
Swing Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
The Malcolm X photograph collection
1 item
The Birth of a Nation Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
James Latimer Allen portfolio.
1 item
The Notorious Elinor Lee Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Underworld Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Church buildings
1 item
Within Our Gates Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
John Brown portrait Collection
1 item
Columbia 1880-1900
1 item
Morgan and Marvin Smith Collection
1 item
Postcard collection
1 item
Conrad-Tubman photograph collection
1 item
Ku Klux Klan
1 item
The Zulu and the zayda theater stills collection
1 item
Cuba 1860-1900
1 item
Wilcox Collection - Tuskegee Institute
1 item
Alberta Hunter photograph collection
1 item
Robin W. Winks blacks in Canada photograph collection
1 item
Vocalists and vocal groups
1 item
Sheet Music Collection
1 item
Entertainers
1 item
Radio
1 item
Africa 1870-1899
1 item
Richard Saunders Portfolio
1 item
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee collection.
1 item
William N. and Isabele T. Spiller photograph collection
1 item
A Raisin in the sun theater stills collection
1 item
Anita Bush Stock Company.
1 item
Peter Williams Portrait Collection
1 item