African Americans Collection

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

Library interior at Tuskegee Institute, 1906. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Library interior at Tuskegee Institute, 1906. [Teacher training school for African Americans in Alabama]

Mathematics class at Tuskegee Institute, 1906. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mathematics class at Tuskegee Institute, 1906. [Young black women learning maths]

Interior view of library reading room with male and female students... Tuskegee Institute, c1902
Interior view of library reading room with male and female students sitting at tables, reading, at the Tuskegee Institute, c1902. [African American students studying]

Interior view of dining hall, decorated for the holidays, with students sitting at tables at the Tuskegee Institute, c1902. [Young African Americans share a meal at Christmas or Thanksgiving]

Interior view of chapel filled with female students at the Tuskegee Institute, c1902. [Young black women at a church service]

Brick Yard near Mount Vernon, Va. between 1910 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Brick Yard near Mount Vernon, Va
Brick Yard near Mount Vernon, Virginia, between 1910 and 1917. Black and white workers, USA. SSS 120 patented brick machine: Made by The Arnold Creager Co. New London, Ohio, USA

Three African American women...State Fair at Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1903. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Three African American women, full-length portrait, standing, at the State Fair at Saint Paul, Minn. 1903

Group of school children in front of statue of George Washington, Washington, D.C. (1899?). [African American children on a school trip

U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Interior, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Interior, 1914
U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Interior, 1914. African American custodians cleaning spittoons, Washington DC

U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Interior, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Interior, 1914
U.S. Capitol - Cleaning Interior, 1914. African American custodians cleaning spittoons, Washington DC

Alley Clearance. Slum Views, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Alley Clearance. Slum Views, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Alley Clearance. Slum Views, 1914. Poor neighbourhood, USA

Alley Clearance. Slum Views, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Alley Clearance. Slum Views, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Alley Clearance. Slum Views, 1914. Poor neighbourhood, USA

Council of National Defense Headquarters Under Construction, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Council of National Defense Headquarters Under Construction, Washington DC, 1917. African American workers on flat-bed truck

Edgewood Hunt, James Murphy, M.F.H. 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Edgewood Hunt, James Murphy, M.F.H. 1912
Edgewood Hunt, James Murphy, M.F.H. [master of foxhounds], 1912

Migrant cotton pickers, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant cotton pickers. Texas

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