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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
Marcus Garvey, Eminent Scholar
Paul Robeson, accompanied by pianist Lawrence Brown, in Moscow, Soviet Union
Portrait of pianist and composer Lawrence Brown
Portrait of Lawrence Brown
Librarian Augusta Baker showing a copy of Ellen Tarry's "Janie Belle" to a young girl at the library
Louis Armstrong
Attendees to the Baptist National Convention, in Richmond, Virginia
Portrait of Hon. Jonathan Jasper Wright, Judge of the Supreme Court of South Carolina
Portrait of Joseph Rainey
Woman with a baby sitting outside of building from which they had been evicted, in Harlem, New York
Earl Hines and his big band performing at the Apollo Theatre
Général Alexandre Pétion (1770-1818). Héros de I'Indépendance d'Haïti (1807-1818)
Général Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806). Héros de I'Indépendance d'Haïti (1804-1806)
Général Toussaint Louverture (1743 - 1803)
Cap et Môle St Nicolas, Isle St. Domingue
Augusta Savage with unidentified woman
View of Augusta Savage's unfinished sculpture "After the Glory"
Bust of unidentified youth by Augusta Savage
Statuette by Augusta Savage entitled "Pumbaa"
President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia
Bert Williams in his rooster costume from the theatrical revue the "Ziegfeld Follies"
Group portrait of three African American women
Portrait of Mrs. Frances Anne Rollin Whipper
Officers and other members of Club Cubano Inter-Americano at unidentified event
A tribute to Melba Alvarado
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
171 items
Military
157 items
Federal Theatre Project Productions Theater Stills Collection
130 items
Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection
104 items
Cartes-de-visite collection
86 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
41 items
Vues D'Afrique
39 items
Regina Andrews photograph collection
39 items
Cabinet card collection
38 items
Austin Hansen collection
37 items
Lincoln School for Nurses photograph collection
36 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
19 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
Augusta Savage 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
Gwendolyn Bennett photograph collection
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
Asadata Dafora photograph collection
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
Lawrence Brown photograph collection
3 items
William "Pop" Gates photograph collection
3 items
Hilda Simms photograph collection.
3 items
Frank R. Crosswaith photograph collection
3 items
Club Cubano Inter-Americano 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
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
Stormé DeLarverié photograph 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
Shivery family photograph 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
Leigh Whipper photograph collection
1 item
Sheet Music Collection
1 item
Glenn Carrington photograph collection
1 item
Entertainers
1 item
Radio
1 item
Africa
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