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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.
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Ethiopian Quadrilles danced and sung by the Virginia Minstrels
Recolte du Café. Artist: Johann Moritz Rugendas
Earl "Snake Hips" Tucker
At the foot of Dessaline's statue in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Ruth Whitehead Whaley being sworn in by Mayor Richard Vincent Impelliteri, 1951
Carter G. Woodson
J'ai deux amours...Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker on the cover of La Revue des Folies-Bergere
Mr. and Mrs. Bates reading letters after Governor Faubus ordered National Guardsmen to Central High School to keep out Negro students
Studio portrait of actress and singer Etta Moten
Benjamin Banneker, Surveyor, Mathematician and Astronomer Assisting with the Plans for Laying out Washington in the District of Columbia
75th Jubilee Anniversary, Jackson State College: Arna Bontemps, Melvin B. Tolson, Jackson State College President Jacob Redick, Owen Dodson, Robert Hayden, Sterling Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Walker, and Langston Hughes.
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Upon arrival at the Tokyo airport, Louis and Lucille Armstrong are being greeted by Miss Mizushima, a Japanese singer
Josephine Baker
Singer and bandleader Cab Calloway
Singer Harry Belafonte and conductor/arranger Robert De Cormier during a recording session for RCA Victor Records
Harry Belafonte lights a cigarette for actor Leslie Scott at the world premiere of "Bright Road" at the 55th Street Playhouse, in New York
Harry Belafonte holds his son David on his shoulders while talking to visitors on Liberty Island, New York
Harry Belafonte (center) with (left to right) Daisy Bates, Daisy C. Hicks, Gloria Reid and Margherite Mays (Mrs. Willie Mays), at the Committee for United Negro Relief, Inc. Benefit Bridge Luncheon
Photograph of Lieutenant Clarence Samuels of the United States Coast Guard, the highest ranking African American officer in the Navy
Group photograph of the U.S. Coast Guard Quartet members while singing, New York, N.Y.
Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Stereograph collection
848 items
Print Collection
379 items
Portrait collection
319 items
Federal Theatre Project - Theater Stills Collection
222 items
Farm Security Administration Collection
219 items
Military
158 items
Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection
127 items
Street Scenes
106 items
Cartes-de-visite collection
86 items
Morgan and Marvin Smith Collection
65 items
Views of British Guiana; album
63 items
Occupations
62 items
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits photograph collection
57 items
Views of Jamaica
51 items
Austin Hansen collection
45 items
Vues D'Afrique
39 items
Education
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
National Youth Administration collection
28 items
Art and Artists
27 items
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg collection
25 items
Organizations
24 items
Album de Martinique
24 items
Ellabelle Davis photograph collection
23 items
Howard Orphanage and Industrial School photograph collection
21 items
Wesley Williams photograph collection
21 items
Harry A. Williamson Photograph Collection
20 items
Demonstrations
20 items
Dance
18 items
Schuyler Family photograph collection
17 items
Nightclubs and theaters
16 items
Claudia Jones Memorial photograph collection
15 items
Sports
12 items
Gordon Parks portfolio
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
Asadata Dafora photograph collection
10 items
Robert Clifton Weaver photograph collection
10 items
Miscellaneous nineteenth century collections
9 items
International Labor Defense photograph collection
9 items
Slavery
9 items
Gwendolyn Bennett photograph collection
9 items
Postcard collection
9 items
A. P. Bedou portfolio
9 items
Segregation and integration
8 items
American Negro Theatre Alumni photograph collection
8 items
Joe Nash black dance photograph collection
7 items
Kenneth W. Porter photograph collection
7 items
William N. and Isabele T. Spiller photograph collection
7 items
Meta Warrick Fuller photograph collection
7 items
Vulcan Society photograph collection
7 items
Ada "Bricktop" Smith photograph collection
6 items
Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil
6 items
William Stanley Braithwaite photograph collection
6 items
Brazil, 1860-1900
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
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
Magazines and Newspapers
5 items
Housing
5 items
William Pickens photograph collection
5 items
Kurt Fisher Haitian History collection
5 items
Gordon Anderson collection
4 items
Dean Dixon photograph collection
4 items
Moorish Science Temple of America photograph collection
4 items
The Homesteader Motion Picture Stills Collection
3 items
The Wages of Sin Motion Picture Stills Collection
3 items
Schomburg Center photograph collection.
3 items
Léon-Gontran Damas photograph collection
3 items
James Van Der Zee portfolio
3 items
Katherine Handy Lewis photograph collection
3 items
Josephine Baker scrapbooks.
3 items
Hilda Simms photograph collection.
3 items
Frank R. Crosswaith photograph collection
3 items
James Weldon Johnson photograph collection
3 items
American Negro Theatre photograph collection
3 items
Mabel Mercer photograph collection
3 items
Glenn Carrington photograph collection
3 items
Lynching
3 items
Architecture
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
Inventors and inventions
2 items
Ewart Guinier photograph collection
2 items
Lawrence D. Reddick photograph collection
2 items
Stormé DeLarverié photograph collection
2 items
Cartoons and stereotypes
2 items
Wilcox Collection - Tuskegee Institute
2 items
Leigh Whipper 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
Reconstruction collection
2 items
Peter Williams Portrait Collection
2 items
Negro Labor Committee photograph collection
2 items
Government
1 item
Harlem Scrapbook (Franklin F. Hopper Scrapbook)
1 item
Parades collection
1 item
Hiram Revels photograph collection
1 item
Entertainers
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
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters photograph 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
Harlem Theater Stills Collection
1 item
Joseph Beam photograph collection
1 item
Lorraine Hansberry Photograph Collection
1 item
Caribbean area - Trinidad
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
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
Columbia 1880-1900
1 item
Conrad-Tubman photograph collection
1 item
Williams & Walker musical comedies (oversize)
1 item
Businesses
1 item
Ku Klux Klan
1 item
The Zulu and the zayda theater stills collection
1 item
Leigh Rollin Whipper photograph collection
1 item
Morgan and Marvin Smith Collection (Additions)
1 item
Vocalists and vocal groups
1 item
Four Saints in Three Acts Theater Stills Collection
1 item
Frederick O'Neal photograph collection
1 item
Assotto Saint photograph collection
1 item
Sheet Music Collection
1 item
Africa
1 item
Church buildings
1 item
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee collection.
1 item
A Raisin in the sun theater stills collection
1 item
Africa 1870-1899
1 item