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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
Ira Aldridge
Three African American bodybuilders
Stormé DeLarverié (center), surrounded by three female impersonators at Roberts Show Club, Chicago, Illinois
Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop meeting with staff of the Lafargue Clinic, in Harlem
Display case at Harlem Art Center
Portrait of author, film director and producer Oscar Micheaux
Photomontage of interracial marriage ceremony with Gordon Anderson serving as photographer and best man
Candid view of actress Dorothy Dandridge with two unidentified women
View of beauty contestants at the Pacific Beach Club beauty contest, near Huntington Beach, California
View of spectators at the Pacific Beach Club beauty contest, near Huntington Beach, California
The Belafontes become citizens: Harry Belafonte is a witness for his parents' naturalization
Portrait of Dolores Maria (Lola) Schomburg Diaz and her husband
Black woman holding sleeping White baby on her lap
Portrait of two men seated, holding hands, wearing large bow ties, gilded with nautical symbols
Portrait of African American woman in plaid dress with lace collar
View of apartment at 400 Convent Ave. in Hamilton Heights, New York City
Reverend John H. Johnson (left) and New York Police Department Captain Arthur Hill attending an unidentified police gathering
Reverend John H. Johnson (center) meeting with two officers of the New York Police Department outside of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Harlem, New York
Sara Lachatanere
Group of men, women and children gathered on stoop, East Harlem, New York City
Rural Puerto Rican family of six, 1950s
Eastside - Group of men and youths gathered around an accident victim; one young man appears to be arguing with the others, East Harlem, New York City
Park Avenue - Young girl selling clothes on the street, East Harlem, New York City
105th Street - Two boys playing with roller skates, each wearing a single roller skate on their right foot, East Harlem, New York City
Group of children, mostly boys, gathered under sprinkler, in East Harlem, New York City
Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Stereograph collection
848 items
Print Collection
473 items
Portrait collection
401 items
Federal Theatre Project - Theater Stills Collection
260 items
Farm Security Administration Collection
221 items
Military
158 items
Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection
128 items
Street Scenes
106 items
Cartes-de-visite collection
91 items
Education
84 items
Art and Artists
81 items
Austin Hansen collection
78 items
Occupations
65 items
Miscellaneous nineteenth century collections
64 items
Views of British Guiana; album
63 items
Slavery
61 items
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits photograph collection
57 items
Views of Jamaica
51 items
Vues D'Afrique
39 items
Jesse Alexander photograph collection
39 items
Cabinet card collection
38 items
Lincoln School for Nurses photograph collection
37 items
Regina Andrews photograph collection
37 items
Gordon Parks portfolio
32 items
National Youth Administration collection
28 items
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg collection [graphic]
28 items
Organizations
26 items
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 1987
25 items
Album de Martinique
24 items
Ellabelle Davis photograph collection
23 items
Howard Orphanage and Industrial School photograph collection
21 items
Demonstrations
21 items
Wesley Williams photograph collection
21 items
Harry A. Williamson Photograph Collection
20 items
Dance
18 items
Schuyler Family photograph collection
18 items
Nightclubs and theaters
18 items
Claudia Jones Memorial photograph collection
15 items
Kurt Fisher Haitian History collection
14 items
Sports
12 items
Businesses
12 items
Club Cubano Inter-Americano photograph collection
12 items
Augusta Savage photograph collection
12 items
New York Jazz Museum Photograph Collection
11 items
Civil Rights Congress photograph collection
11 items
George L. Brashear scrapbook
11 items
William N. and Isabele T. Spiller photograph collection
11 items
Asadata Dafora photograph collection
10 items
Robert Clifton Weaver photograph collection
10 items
Gordon Anderson collection
9 items
Photographs of New York City and Puerto Rico
9 items
Joe Nash black dance photograph collection
9 items
International Labor Defense photograph collection
9 items
Gwendolyn Bennett photograph collection
9 items
Postcard collection
9 items
A. P. Bedou portfolio
9 items
Housing
8 items
Segregation and integration
8 items
American Negro Theatre Alumni photograph collection
8 items
Ada "Bricktop" Smith photograph collection
7 items
Kenneth W. Porter photograph collection
7 items
Meta Warrick Fuller photograph collection
7 items
Vulcan Society photograph collection
7 items
Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil
6 items
William Stanley Braithwaite photograph collection
6 items
Brazil, 1860-1900
6 items
Magazines and Newspapers
6 items
Lawrence Brown photograph collection
6 items
William "Pop" Gates photograph collection
6 items
National Negro Congress photograph collection
6 items
Libraries
6 items
Entertainers
5 items
Ceremonies and celebrations
5 items
Beauty culture
5 items
Bonnie Clark collection
5 items
George W. Westerman photograph collection
5 items
Harper's weekly
5 items
Manhattanville: an architectural retrospect
5 items
William Pickens photograph collection
5 items
Nanette Bearden photograph collection
5 items
Migration
4 items
Schomburg Center photograph collection
4 items
Lawrence D. Reddick photograph collection
4 items
Colonial Dance Orchestra portrait collection
4 items
Dean Dixon photograph collection
4 items
Moorish Science Temple of America photograph collection
4 items
Architecture
4 items
The Homesteader Motion Picture Stills Collection
3 items
The Wages of Sin Motion Picture Stills Collection
3 items
Léon-Gontran Damas photograph collection
3 items
James Van Der Zee portfolio
3 items
Katherine Handy Lewis photograph collection
3 items
Hilda Simms photograph collection.
3 items
Jamaica, 1880-1900
3 items
Frank R. Crosswaith photograph collection
3 items
Sonny Rollins photograph collection
3 items
Panoramic views collection
3 items
James Weldon Johnson photograph collection
3 items
A. Philip Randolph Institute collection
3 items
American Negro Theatre photograph collection
3 items
Mabel Mercer photograph collection
3 items
Glenn Carrington photograph collection
3 items
Josephine Baker scrapbooks
3 items
Lynching
3 items
Schomburg Daguerreotype collection
3 items
Children
3 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
Lafargue Clinic photograph collection
2 items
Inventors and inventions
2 items
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters photograph collection
2 items
Ewart Guinier photograph collection
2 items
Stormé DeLarverié photograph collection
2 items
Cartoons and stereotypes
2 items
Morgan and Marvin Smith Collection
2 items
Wilcox Collection - Tuskegee Institute
2 items
Leigh Whipper photograph collection
2 items
Musicians
2 items
Negro Actors Guild of America photograph collection
2 items
Edna Thomas collection
2 items
Frederick O'Neal photograph collection
2 items
Albert Victor Johnson collection
2 items
Canada Lee photograph collection
2 items
Radio
2 items
Nat King Cole photograph collection.
2 items
Richard Saunders portfolio
2 items
John Henrik Clarke photograph collection
2 items
Ralph J. Bunche photograph collection
2 items
Reconstruction collection
2 items
Peter Williams Portrait Collection
2 items
Negro Labor Committee photograph collection
2 items
Government
1 item
The dandy slave
1 item
Jogar Capoëra, ou danse de la guerre
1 item
Harlem Scrapbook (Franklin F. Hopper Scrapbook)
1 item
Parades
1 item
Edward Schwartz Portfolio
1 item
Elease Perkins collection
1 item
Hiram Revels photograph collection
1 item
Eusebia Cosme photograph collection
1 item
Toussaint L'Ouverture portrait collection
1 item
Madam C.J. Walker collection
1 item
P. Jay Sidney collection
1 item
Anna Lucasta Theater Stills Collection
1 item
Anita Bush Stock Company.
1 item
Big Fella Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Broadsides, posters and playbills
1 item
Shivery family photograph collection
1 item
Goin' a Buffalo Theater Stills Collection
1 item
Health and medical care
1 item
Gunsaulus Mystery Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Inge Hardison portfolio
1 item
Harlem Theater Stills Collection
1 item
Joseph Beam photograph collection
1 item
Lorraine Hansberry Photograph Collection
1 item
Caribbean area - Trinidad
1 item
Jones-Sadler Family photograph collection
1 item
Murder in Harlem Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Stevedore theater stills 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
Lester A. Walton photograph collection
1 item
Swing Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
The Birth of a Nation Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Guichard Parris photograph collection
1 item
The Notorious Elinor Lee Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Underworld Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
Within Our Gates Motion Picture Stills Collection
1 item
John Brown portrait Collection
1 item
Middleton A. "Spike" Harris photograph collection
1 item
Columbia 1880-1900
1 item
Muriel Petioni photograph collection
1 item
A Negro holiday in Havana
1 item
Conrad-Tubman photograph collection
1 item
Williams & Walker musical comedies (oversize)
1 item
Ku Klux Klan
1 item
The Zulu and the zayda theater stills collection
1 item
Leigh Rollin Whipper photograph collection
1 item
A cudgelling match between English & French Negroes in the island of Dominica
1 item
Baptism in community of Gullah descendants in North Carolina
1 item
William H. Butler photograph collection
1 item
Morgan and Marvin Smith Collection (Additions)
1 item
Scurlock Studio portfolio
1 item
Vocalists and vocal groups
1 item
Alberta Hunter photograph collection
1 item
Four Saints in Three Acts Theater Stills Collection
1 item
Assotto Saint photograph collection
1 item
Black residents near the Capitol in Washington
1 item
Sheet Music Collection
1 item
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater photograph collection
1 item
Booker T. Washington, Principal of Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.
1 item
Africa
1 item
Wilhelmina Adams photograph collection
1 item
Church buildings
1 item
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee collection.
1 item
Place Du Geffrard, Port-au-Prince
1 item
A Raisin in the sun theater stills collection
1 item
Africa 1870-1899
1 item
Maurice Hunter scrapbooks
1 item
Kenneth Porter Photograph Collection.
Unemployment
Bert Andrews collection
Other Countries photograph collection
The Malcolm X collection: photographs
Wadleigh High School collection, 1938-2007, (bulk 1960's-l 999)
A Piece of the Action Motion Picture Stills Collection
Ceremonies and celebrations
Photographs by Ali Salimah
W.E.B. DuBois portrait collection
"Selma Last Year" Collection
Child riding on man's shoulders with flag at African-American Day Parade, N.Y.
Preston Wilcox photograph collection
Chuck Stewart Portfolio
Institute of the Black World Photograph Collection
Althea Gibson collection
Robert L. Haggins portfolio
Black Panther Party
Southern Africa: the imprisoned society: exhibition of photographs.
Urban Arts Corps photograph collection
Lobby Card Collection.
Richard Avedon Collection: SNCC contact sheets
Coreen Simpson photographs.
Robert Sengstacke Portfolio
Costa Sakellariou Photograph Collection
Robert Van Lierop photograph collection
Robin W. Winks blacks in Canada photograph collection
Larry Neal photograph collection
St. Clair Drake photograph collection
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition photograph collection
Bob Fletcher collection
Malcolm X praying at home, East Elmhurst, Queens, New York
Claudine Motion Picture Stills Collection
Marion and Clarissa Cumbo photograph collection.
Mary Ellen (" Mammy ") Pleasant at 87 years of age
Patrick Kelly photograph collection
Dawoud Bey: Birmingham portfolio: four girls and two boys
Dechoukaj Exhibition Collection
Migration
Cuba 1860-1900
The Black experience in America portfolio
The Blacks Theater Stills Collection
Berenice Abbott portfolio collection
A pro-slavery crusade; the agitation to reopen the African slave trade
John Vachon portfolio
The Inter-state Tattler photograph collection
The River Niger Theater Stills Collection
Black Religion Project photograph collection
The Vamp theater stills collection
Exceptional Black scientists photograph collection
Fashion
John Storm Roberts collection
Frederick Wilkerson photograph collection
Fredi Washington photograph collection
Laurance Henry portfolio
Kamoinge Workshop portfolio
Klytus Smith collection
African presidents]
Lavinia Williams photograph collection
Althea Gibson collection.
Tony Gleaton Portfolio
Jewel Plummer Cobb photograph collection
Joel E. and Amy E. Spingarn photograph collection
Phelps-Stokes Fund photograph collection.
Uptown Saturday Night Motion Picture Stills Collection
Photographs by Ernest C. Withers
Religion
Chester Higgins Jr. portfolio.
Bertrand Miles portfolio.
Club Cubano Inter-Americano photograph collection
C.L. Baley collection
Crime and criminals
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition photograph collection
Malcolm X Motion Picture Stills Collection
James Latimer Allen portfolio
Frantz Michaud portfolio
Black New Yorkers Project, 1999
Jimbé Carroll photographs.
John W. Cooper photograph collection.
Kwame Brathwaite photographs.
Burroughs Lamar photography.
Josephine Baker scrapbooks.