Black control of the Black community! vote Socialist Workers in 1970.
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief th...
Reproduction number: A54 (color slide); LC-MSS-27748-21 (B&W negative) While serving as secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), one of Virginia's largest planters and slaveholders, wrote this 30 Augus... More
Receipt for African American slave
Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Colored individuals along the road side
Drawing shows an African American slave woman leaning against a split rail fence along with three children. She says, "Oh I so glad you come, 'massa says he wish you were in da bottom of the sea--but you ain't ... More
All-American news. 1945-09 - movie film screenshot
All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, a... More
John Gassett. - Public domain portrait print
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Poster warning Blacks in Boston - kidnappers.
Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Sheet of sketches for the illustrated 1852 London edition of Uncle To...
Purchase; Warren Ewens; 1993; (DLC-PP/1993:162). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan ... More
Hiram R. Revels of Miss., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negativ...
African American legislator. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Benjamin S. Turner, Glass Negative, 1860s
African American legislator. Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Hon. B.S. Turner; B.S. Turner. MC from Alabama. Credit line: Brady-Handy pho... More
The undecided political prize fight, Political Cartoon
A pro-Breckinridge satire on the 1860 presidential contest. Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln (right) and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas (left) appear as boxers squaring off in a ring before a small crowd of on... More
Congressional surgery. Legislative quackery, Political Cartoon
A rare anti-North satire, probably dealing with either the Crittenden Compromise or the Douglas Compromise. Proposed in December 1860 in the form of several constitutional amendments, the former called for rest... More
Questioning the farmer of the period on topography
An officer asks a question of a farmer; two children (one black) are present. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.643) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
War views -- Army of the Potomac -- the way they cook dinner in camp
Photograph shows five Union soldiers, including one African American soldier, sitting and eating in front of tents. No. 2057. Photographer's name from same photograph in New York Public Library Digital Collect... More
Southern Planter: "Pomp, you Rascal! do you see any of those cursed Ya...
Print shows a frightened Southern plantation owner asking one of his slaves if he has seen any Yankee ships, the slave tells his master that he is too frightened to see anything since he was told the Yankees wo... More
Mansion of the rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C.
Photograph showing African American slave women and Union soldiers outside Drayton's house. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.272). Gladstone's note: M22.
Three unidentified soldiers eating at table outside tent as an African...
Printed on recto: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purch... More
The war in the southwest - Adjutant-General Thomas addressing the Negr...
Print shows a large crowd of African American men, women, and children, some wearing military uniforms, listening to Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas speak "on the duties and responsibilities of freedom."
Contrabands building a levee on the Mississippi river, below Baton Rou...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 May 9, pp. 104-105.
The effects of the proclamation - freed Negroes coming into our lines ...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 Feb. 21, p. 116. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Belle Plain, Virginia (vicinity). Camp of Negro laborers in the Quarte...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Contrabands accompanying the line of Sherman's march through Georgia /...
Four illustrations: contrabands accompaning the line of Sherman's march through Georgia; dead girl(?) on bed and man standing alongside; John Garth and Olivia Ruthermayne seated; Ruthermayne escutcheon (barber supplies).
Honorable Jeremiah Haralson of Ala. Killed by wild beasts near Denver,...
African American legislator. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The great labor question from a Southern point of view
Man, seated on porch, with family, holding newspaper, and saying, "My boy - we've toiled and taken care of you long enough - now you've got to work!", to an African American man standing in front of the porch, ... More
"Is all dem Yankees dat's passing?"
Caricature showing black woman on porch looking at large number of Union troops marching by (Sherman's march through Georgia). Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Jan. 7, p. 16.
Maj. H.H. Humphrey and others, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Ne...
Three Civil War Union soldiers, drinking outside a canopied living quarters area, African American on right holding bottle. Original neg. no.: LC-B817-7406.
[African American workers on Cape Fear River rice plantation, N.C. Wee...
Picryl description: Public domain image of famine, hunger, powerty, refugees, people suffering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[African American workers on Cape Fear River rice plantation, N.C. Thr...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1866 Oct. 20), p. 72, no. 6. Reference copy may be in LOT 4422. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption... More
[Black soldier, Indian war period, Infantry, Co. D with shoulder knots...
Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.332) Title from Gladstone collection checklist. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: T48.
[Unidentified African American man] / Broadbent & Phillips, 1206 Chest...
No. 28229. Public domain photograph - 19th-century male studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Portrait of two young African American women, one standing, one seate...
Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
2nd Res. 1st New R. Div. & Division office, Major Temple's
Photograph shows several men, possibly a survey crew, standing in front of two-story wooden building. In Jedediah Hotchkiss photograph album of views along railroad lines and rivers from near Staunton, Virgini... More
Johnson, D.H. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Snikon, F.G. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Lewis, M. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Wright, J.J. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Burton, A.J. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Freeman, A.N. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Unidentified man. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Date based on span of years of C.M. Bell Collection. Negative number assigned by Library. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp note: Batch 52.
Franklin, H.L. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Reverend A.A. Gilbert. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Reverend Turner, J.M. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Berry, H.S. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
R.E. Hall. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Cress, H.C. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
J.E. Jackson. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Robinson, I.N. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Morley, J.C. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
J.C. Williams. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More
Plantation banjo player, American vaudeville and popular entertainment...
F9878 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1875 by Courier Co. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)
[Two Negroes leaning over a log] / O. Pierre Havens, (successor to Wil...
Stereograph shows two African American boys leaning on a log and staring into space. 7052 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from copyright records.
Washington, D.C.--the new administration--colored citizens paying thei...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1877 April 7, p. 85. Reference copy in BIOG. FILE.
[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carryi...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carryi...
Stereo copyrighted by Kilburn Brothers. No. 465. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans Working; Pumps; Street vendors; Cotton Industry; Rice; Docks; Geogr.
Cutting sugar cane in Louisiana
Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Possibly Baton Rouge; cf. negatives D418-8131 to 8133. "7434" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 08134. Gift; State Historical So... More
Portrait photo of [African American woman, seated]
Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The honey seekers, "hi, you cuff-what dat dar, darkens the hole," "ugh...
100[?] U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Blackwell, W. T., ad... More
A family party - the 200th birthday of the healthiest of Uncle Sam's a...
Print shows Uncle Sam standing at the head of a table at a dinner party in honor of the "Bi-Centennial Celebration of the First German Settlement", with Columbia sitting next to him; around the table are a "Spa... More
F.E.G. kidney remedy. The newly discovered herb medicine. Sold everywh...
Patent medicine poster showing "Paul and Virginia," caricatures of an African American couple on a swing.
Thatcher, Primrose & West's Minstrels
Caption: Music and it's charms, originated & directed by Mr. Barney Fagan. Created by "The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cinti, N=Y & London." N.Y. 2251. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)
Extempo club of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.
Nine young black men posed, seated around two small tables. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Senior preparatory class of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., before ...
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Joe Walcott Mayo's Cut Plug, for chewing and smoking
Cigarette card for Mayo's Cut Plug tobacco shows portrait of Frank C. Irons, winner of the broad jump at the 1908 Olympics. Issued by: Mayo Tobacco Works.
Four black children in yard - Public domain portrait photograph
Title devised by cataloger. "20" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 030964. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
All mine - Public domain portrait print
An African American family at home. 6333 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Strohmeyer & Wyman.
The colored school, Charleston, S.C., U.S.A.
African American girls walking single file outside school. Title transcribed from item. Copyright by B.W. Kilburn. No. 6680.
Portrait photograph of Salter, Bishop, M.B, C.M.Bell Studio
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date from photographer's logbook. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More
Portrait photograph of Bishop B.W. Arnett, C.M.Bell Studio
Photograph shows Benjamin William Arnett (1838-1906), an educator and minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church who served as a member of the Ohio state legislature. Title is name of sitter or person w... More
Portrait photograph of White, C.C, C.M.Bell Studio
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date from photographer's logbook. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More
Portrait photograph of Dr. H.T. Johnson, C.M.Bell Studio
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date from photographer's logbook. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More
Portrait photograph of Bishop Arnett, C.M.Bell Studio
Photograph shows Benjamin William Arnett (1838-1906), an educator and minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church who served as a member of the Ohio state legislature. Title is name of sitter or person w... More
These are the generations of Ham
Group of African American women, children, and a man seated outside a wood-shingled building. 7709 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Strohmeyer & Wyman.
Unidentified African American Civil War veteran of G.A.R. Colonel John...
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljvet
A morning bath / motion picture
An African American mother is shown giving her struggling child a bath. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub of foaming suds. 60142 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 31Oct1896; 6... More
Memphis Exhibit, Negro Building, Atlanta Exposition
Four black people: one woman seated looking at photo album(?), one woman standing, men signing paper, another man beside him.
Primrose & West's Big Minstrels
C259696 U.S. Copyright Office Captions: New and superb prismatic first part Wm. H. West in the superb prismatic first part & the great Zouave Patrol Ezra Kendall Carroll Johnson, the Adonis of minstrelsy ... More
Cissereitta [Sisseretta] Jones; [Black Patti.]
Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Watermelon sweet..." - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph
4 African American boys eating in field. Stereo copyrighted by Keystone. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Punching single bars for U.S. battleship Illinois
African American men operating a metal punching machine at a ship building plant. Copyright by Rusk and Shaw, Newport News, Va.
Troop A, Ninth U.S. Cavalry - Famous Indian fighters
African American soldiers on horseback - Spanish-American War. Picryl description: Public domain artwork of horse, equestrian horse riding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Bricklaying at Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C.]
Bricklaying class. Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[African American woman, half-length portrait, seated, right profile, ...
In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 197. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More
Baptist Churches, Washington, D.C. - R. St. Baptist Church
Shows the Metropolitan Baptist Church, 1225 R Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Title and other information transcribed from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Ne... More
[S.J. Gilpin shoe store, Richmond, Virginia]
Mail carrier and six other men posed standing at entrance to shop.
[African American men seated on porch steps]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 254. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
[Exterior view of houses along unpaved street in Georgia]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 306. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
[View down dirt road with houses in the distance]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 272. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
[Interior view of room showing furniture, piano, and chandelier]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 287. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
[Houses along a dirt road in Georgia]
Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 49. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More
[African American man, head-and-shoulders length portrait, facing left...
In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 205. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More
[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly right]
In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 151. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More
[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]
In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 96. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More
[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly right]
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing left]
Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Two African American men in horse-drawn carriage and two standing alo...
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 233. Photograph damaged. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs f... More
[Young African American woman, half-length portrait, facing right, wea...
In album: Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 40. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room... More
[African American girl, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]
In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 8. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Re... More
Mrs. Frazer Baker and children, family of the murdered postmaster at L...
51785 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - group portrait, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[African American girl, full-length portrait, standing next to table, ...
In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 216. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More