African Americans Collection

Tom Kennedy and Joe Jeanette, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Tom Kennedy and Joe Jeanette, between c1910 and c1915.

National Negro Business League Executive Committee, [approx 1910]. Creator: Bain News Service
National Negro Business League Executive Committee, [approx 1910]. Shows African American leaders, including Booker T. Washington seated second from left.

1st Depositor, Postal Bank, N.Y., between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
1st Depositor, Postal Bank, N.Y., between c1910 and c1915.

Bob Armstrong, Eddie McGoorty, Ed McMahon, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Bob Armstrong, Eddie McGoorty, Ed McMahon, 1912. Shows boxers Bob Armstrong (alias Bob Johnson) (1873-1933), Edwin Van Dusart (alias Eddie McGoorty) (1889-1929), and Ed McMahon.

Johnson - Flynn contest, July 4 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Johnson - Flynn contest, July 4 1912. Shows boxers Jack Johnson (1878-1946) and Jim Flynn (1879-1935) (born Andrew Chiariglione) in the ring at Las Vegas, New Mexico, July 4, 1912.

Boxer George Robinson, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Boxer George Robinson, between c1910 and c1915.

Gen. Powell Clayton, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Gen. Powell Clayton, 1912. 1912 Republican National Convention held at the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 18-22.

Jack Johnson, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Jack Johnson, between c1910 and c1915.

Jack Johnson, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Jack Johnson, between c1910 and c1915.

Louisiana Flood - refugees cook government rations, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Louisiana Flood - refugees cook government rations, 1912.

Porto [Puerto] Rico -- Raising tobacco under Cheese Cloth, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Porto [Puerto] Rico -- Raising tobacco under Cheese Cloth, between c1915 and c1920.

Studying botany, Tuskegee, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Studying botany, Tuskegee, between c1910 and c1915. Shows students at the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama.

The Last Days of the Confederate Government...Jefferson Davis bidding farewell to his escort, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Last Days of the Confederate Government - Mr. Jefferson Davis bidding farewell to his escort two days before his capture, 1865

The Last Days of the Confederate Government... Mr. Jefferson Davis signing acts...by the roadside, 1 Creator: Unknown
The Last Days of the Confederate Government - Mr. Jefferson Davis signing acts of government by the roadside, 1865. '...from a sketch by our special artist...[showing] Mr

The Last Days of the Confederate Government - the flight of the Confederates: Sudden Alarm..., 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Last Days of the Confederate Government - the flight of the Confederates: Sudden Alarm and Stampede, 1865. '...from a sketch by our special artist...[showing] the scene presented by a sudden

National Negro Business League Executive Committee, approx. 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
National Negro Business League Executive Committee, approx. 1910. Shows African American leaders, including Booker T. Washington seated second from left

Saint Cecilia, crowned by an angel, 1587. Creator: Gnocchi, Giovanni Pietro (around 1553-1609)
Saint Cecilia, crowned by an angel, 1587. Private Collection

A tobacco plantation, 1745. Creator: Unknown artist
A tobacco plantation, 1745. Private Collection

Sketches in Philadelphia, by our special artists, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Sketches in Philadelphia, by our special artists, 1876. The Office of the Servants in a large Hotel - Artistic Admiration for an Artist; Old Beggar Woman; "The best Dinner in the City for 25

The American Centennial Exhibition: one of the Principal Streets in Philadelphia, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The American Centennial Exhibition: one of the Principal Streets in Philadelphia, 1876. The guidebook published by Messrs. J. B

The American Centennial Festival Exhibition: scene in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia'...1876. Creator: Unknown
The American Centennial Festival Exhibition: scene in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia - Negro Militia after Drill, 1876. African-Americans enjoying a cultural event

S.C. huckster, South Carolina, between 1900 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
S.C. huckster, South Carolina, between 1900 and 1910

Sorting cotton, between 1900 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
Sorting cotton, between 1900 and 1910

U.S.S. New York, Lord Cassidy, the colored mascot, anniversary of Santiago, 1899 July 3. Creator: Unknown
U.S.S. New York, Lord Cassidy, the colored mascot, anniversary of Santiago, 1899 July 3

Southern fish vendor, c1903. Creator: Unknown
Southern fish vendor, c1903

Fort McHenry, Cement Gun Used in Building Camp, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Fort McHenry, Cement Gun Used in Building Camp, 1917

Old Huguenot church, 136 Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina, between 1920 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Old Huguenot church, 136 Church Street, Charleston, South Carolina, between 1920 and 1926

At the cotton press, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
At the cotton press, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926

Woman sitting on steps and man standing in a doorway, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Woman sitting on steps and man standing in a doorway, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926

Woman and children standing in or by a doorway, [17 Chalmers Street], Charleston... c1920-c1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Woman and children standing in or by a doorway, [17 Chalmers Street], Charleston, South Carolina, between 1920 and 1926

View from across street of four women talking, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
View from across street of four women talking, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926

View from across street of a man and woman standing by a doorway and a woman seated...c1920-1926
View from across street of a man and woman standing by a doorway and a woman seated on the balcony above, New, between 1920 and 1926

View from across street of a man and child sitting on steps and a woman walking down... c1920-1926
View from across street of a man and child sitting on steps and a woman walking down sidewalk in the French Quarter, New, between 1920 and 1926

View down Chartres Street, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
View down Chartres Street, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926

Slaves Reunion - Lewis Martin, Age 100; Martha Elizabeth Banks, Age 104; Amy Ware, Age 103... 1917
Slaves Reunion. Lewis Martin, Age 100; Martha Elizabeth Banks, Age 104; Amy Ware, Age 103; Rev. S.P. Drew, Born Free, 1917. Formerly enslaved African Americans

Slaves Reunion - Annie Parram, Age, 104; Anna Angales, Age 105; Elizabeth Berkeley, 125... 1917
Slaves Reunion - Annie Parram, Age, 104; Anna Angales, Age 105; Elizabeth Berkeley, 125; Sadie Thompson, 110, 1917. Formerly enslaved African Americans

View down a sidewalk, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
View down a sidewalk, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926

Organ grinder, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Organ grinder, New Orleans, between 1920 and 1926

Street scene - looking north on Bedons Alley to Elliott Street; with horse and wagon... c1920-1926
Street scene [looking north on Bedons Alley to Elliott Street] with horse and wagon, Charleston, South Carolina, between 1920 and 1926. House at end is 22 Elliott Street (c. 1793)

[View looking south on King Street, Charleston, South Carolina, between 1920 and 1926. Creator: Arnold Genthe
[View looking south on King Street. The two-and-a-half stone masonry house with the window in the gable end with the square cap over it is 89 King Street]

Portrait of Wilmoth Houdini, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of Wilmoth Houdini, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947

Portrait of Lord Invader, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of Lord Invader, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947

Portrait of Count of Monte Cristo, Macbeth, ...Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947
Portrait of Count of Monte Cristo, Macbeth, Duke of Iron, Wilmoth Houdini, Lord Invader, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947

Portrait of Wilmoth Houdini, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of Wilmoth Houdini, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947

Portrait of unidentified woman, Wilmoth...Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947
Portrait of unidentified woman, Wilmoth Houdini, Duke of Iron (Cecil Anderson), Lord Invader, Macbeth, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947

Portrait of Macbeth (McDonald Augustus...Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947)
Portrait of Macbeth (McDonald Augustus Fritz), Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947

Portrait of Macbeth, Count of Monte Cristo...Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947
Portrait of Macbeth, Count of Monte Cristo, Lord Invader, and Wilmoth Houdini, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y. ca. July, 1947

Knox Express Co. Horse Team, between 1909 and 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Knox Express Co
Knox Express Co. Horse Team, between 1909 and 1914. African American men with horse-drawn machinery in Washington D.C: The Geo. W. Knox Express Co

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