The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.
Photograph shows a large family of African Americans posed outside former slave quarters at Hermitage Plantation.
Polaire with negro, her "Black Slave"
Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Old Negro women living in one of the slum "villages" that used to be s...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Cambridge Fleet at Long Wh...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: A clear blue sky and high thin clouds reflect on the smooth waters of the Choptank River while five white-washed hulls lay still as thei... More
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - A Greensboro Landscape
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: The farm field creates a wide green space somewhere between summer's cultivation and winter's fallow. Location: Location: Greensboro, M... More
Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail - Hubbard House Underground Railroad Term...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Built between 1840 and 1841 by William and Catharine Hubbard, this home was a Northern Terminus on the Underground Railroad, providing r... More
Statue of Booker T. Washington "Lifting the Veil of Ignorance," by Cha...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...
The Washington family lived in the house from 1900 - 1925. Most furnishings were made by local craftsmen and students. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More
FORT BENNING, Ga – Retired Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Morris,
FORT BENNING, Ga – Retired Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Morris, who earned a Medal of Honor for his valor during the Vietnam War and is one of the first African-American Green Berets, talks to Soldiers Feb. 22 during ... More
Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence. Baptized in Brooklyn….b...
Picryl description: Public domain historical book on American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Old slave market, St. Augustine, Fla.
Stereograph showing Florida slave market. Copyright 1896. No. 761. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Capt. Vernice Armour stands in front of an exhibit
Capt. Vernice Armour stands in front of an exhibit at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Armour was America's first female African American combat pilot and flew the AH1 W SuperCobra in two combat deployments.
Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...
This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 106 slaves held at the slave mart on Chalmers ... More
A report of the trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late one of the membe...
Tried at the Court of Common Pleas, Tortola, Virgin Islands. Shaw & Shoemaker 26592 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A report of the trial of Arthur Hodge, Esquire, (late one of the membe...
Tried at the Court of Common Pleas, Tortola, Virgin Islands. Shaw & Shoemaker 26592 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Slave Markt - A large group of people standing around a harbor
Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Old slave couple , Mercer county.
Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Prospect of the coast from El Mina to Mowri; Negro canoes carrying sla...
Public domain image of a historical view, city, building, cityscape, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Portrait photo of Francis Black, ex-slave, Texarkana
420249. District no. 27. Picture no. 590. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More
Cash! All persons that have slaves to dispose of, will do well by givi...
Slaves- Sale. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 186, Folder 27.
Abu Nabut and Negro Slaves in Cairo
Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description
Come one! Come all!. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Advertising sale of slaves by James L. Coleman, Augusta, Ga., 26 Dec. 1856.
A slave father sold away from his family
African-American slave leaving his family. Illus. in: The Child's Anti-Slavery Book..., New York, [1860], frontispiece. Ref. copy may be in SSF - NEGRO SLAVERY AUCTIONS AND TRADE 1860. This record contains unve... More
Live oak and palmetto tree, Elliot's Hilton Head, S.C.
Photograph shows two trees and a few men near a cabin or slave quarters, Elliot Plantation. Title is inscribed in ink on the front of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. G... More
Slaves of the rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C.
Photograph showing a group portrait of African American men and women on a plantation. Date from Gladstone collection checklist. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.265) No. "42" inscribed o... More
[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...
Maps show comparison of African American population in the United States with several European countries and Australia. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University s... More
[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...
Line graph shows percentage of African American men and women who are single, married, or widowed by age. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for th... More
One room of old Trepagnier plantation house as it is today. This house...
Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Old Negro (former slave) Willis Winn with horn with which slaves were ...
Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch, Texas, during Gre...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
CARTER G. WOODSON - TEACHER, HISTORIAN, PUBLISHER
Carter G. Woodson - with biographical paragraphs. Artworks and Mockups for Cartoons Promoting the War Effort and Original Sketches by Charles Alston
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Yellow Grass and Blue Wate...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: With switchgrass gently swaying and blue water flowing, Stewart's Canal and the surrounding landscape provide a scenic stop to contempla... More
Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama
The Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, is a circular black granite table that chronicles the history of the movement in lines that radiate like the hands of a clock. Water emerges from the table's cen... More
The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Paul Delaney, left, and Washington Star colleague Ron
Paul Delaney, left, and Washington Star colleague Ron Sarro, far right, interview the late gay civil rights activist Baynard Rustin, center, in 1968 at The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industria... More
Jules Jones, a native of Oakland Ca., an African-American
Jules Jones, a native of Oakland Ca., an African-American R&B singer, performs a song called "Survive" during the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Black History Month Observance Ceremony hosted by the 16th Combat Aviat... More
Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...
This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 67 slaves held at Ryan's mart on Chalmers Stre... More
Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...
This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 47 slaves from Christ Church Parish held at Ry... More
Grandchildren of slaves. African-American experience
Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sold to go South.
Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View of Cape de Verde; View of the Negro town at Rusisco.
Public domain scan of 17th-18th century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
James Singleton Black, ex-slave, 83 years old
230016. Written on back: maybe James Singleton. Submitted by Iris England. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narr... More
[Black slaves working in sugar mill. Hispaniola. Part 5, plate 2]
Illus. in: De Bay, Americae...1590. Reference copy may be in E141.B88. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Plantation crops Sugar, LOT 4410A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Boutique de la rue du Val-Longo / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. de Thierr...
Illustration showing interior of slave market. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Esclaves nègres, de différentes nations / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. d...
Illustration showing faces of black women slaves from various tribes reflecting different styles of dress and adornment. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu'en 1831 ... / pa... More
Portraits of Hannibal and Cyprian, with vignettes illustrating African...
An abolitionist print, asserting the nobility of the African peoples and deploring their inhumane treatment under the slave trade. There are two vignettes: "Treatment of the Africans" (top) showing African nati... More
[The battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17th 1775] / [painted by J. Trumbul...
Print shows British and American soldiers in hand-to-hand combat during the Battle of Bunker Hill; among the soldiers depicted are Major General Joseph Warren, Captain Thomas Gardner, Major Andrew McClary, Colo... More
Common mode of whipping with the paddle
Man whipping slave as two other men and a child watch. Illus. in: Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for aiding slaves to escape from bondage. Boston : Pub. at the Anti-slavery of... More
Mansion of James Hopkinson, Edisto Island, S.C.
Photograph shows slaves standing in fenced yard and a side view of the Hopkinson house. Title inscribed in ink on front of mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22; plantation workers in front of mansio... More
The day of Jubelo / E. B. Bensell, pinxt ; photo. and pub. by Phil. Ph...
Photograph shows African Americans (freed slaves?) celebrating in a plantation house, includes couples dancing and children playing. The photograph reproduces a work by the artist Edward Bensell. Entered accor... More
A slave-coffle passing the Capitol
Slaves wearing handcuffs and shackles passing the United States Capitol, around 1815. Illus. in: A popular history of the United States. New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and company, 1876-1881. Reference copy in... More
A couple of women sitting outside of a building. Office of War Informa...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
Ohio River Scenic Byway - Slave Pen Exhibit
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: National Underground Railroad Freedom Center patrons learn more about a slave pen, which was used to hold slaves being transported furth... More
Mark Peterson of Lakewood, Wash., an African-American
Mark Peterson of Lakewood, Wash., an African-American actor with the theater company, Living Voices, plays a role of an 11 year old who joined the revolutionary war during the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Black His... More
The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...
The Washington family lived in the house from 1900 - 1925. Most furnishings were made by local craftsmen and students. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More
The Oaks, home built for Booker T. Washington and his family in Tuskeg...
The Washington family lived in the house from 1900 - 1925. Most furnishings were made by local craftsmen and students. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Geor... More
New York State Military Museum librarian James Gandy
New York State Military Museum librarian James Gandy surveys one of 2,596 Regimental Personnel Cards containing information on New York National Guard Soldiers who enlisted or reenlisted in the 369th Infantry-... More
Capt. Duwayne Ruffin, Rear-Detachment commander of
Capt. Duwayne Ruffin, Rear-Detachment commander of the 626th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team “Rakkasans,” 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), educates fifth graders Feb. 22 at Liberty Elem... More
Edmund Brookins, a member of the Cherry Point chapter
Edmund Brookins, a member of the Cherry Point chapter of the Montford Point Marine Association, poses for a photo with Master Sgt. Johnnie Thompkins Jr., one of the first African Americans to enlist in the Mari... More
Coast Guard members and civilian employees sample foods
Coast Guard members and civilian employees sample foods from black culture around the world after the black history month celebration at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Feb. 21, 2019. The theme of... More
Chief Master Sgt. Jack Johnson Jr., U.S. Africa Command
Chief Master Sgt. Jack Johnson Jr., U.S. Africa Command command senior enlisted leader, speaks to the audience at the Black History Month luncheon at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Feb. 19, 2013. The luncheon hono... More
Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...
This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 44 slaves from St. Johns Berkeley held at the ... More
Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...
This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 158 slaves held at the slave mart on Chalmers ... More
Charley, a slave boy from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson, photographer, N....
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of freed slave, Charles Taylor, sitting, facing front. The United States flag is draped on the floor next to him.
Old Negro [former slave] with horn with which slaves were called; Near...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Glass cup in the shape of a negro head
Glass objects, Roman Empire. Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Roman Empire, 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
Runaway reward poster, Washington DC
November 16, 1858
Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia / negative by William R. Pywell ; posi...
Photograph showing exterior view of Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington... 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.
A poster with a man and a woman facing each other. Racial segregation ...
A poster for campaign / A poster for the two platforms - public domain stock photo.
[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...
Line graph shows comparison of African American to white populations between 1790 and 1890. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibi... More
Great Lakes Seaway Trail - Harriet Tubman
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: This black-and-white photo shows Harriet Tubman posed, standing with her hands perched on a chair. Tubman was the most famous conductor ... More
Grave of Booker T. Washington located at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama
The Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, is a circular black granite table that chronicles the history of the movement in lines that radiate like the hands of a clock. Water emerges from the table's cen... More
Lt. Col. Kirt R Boston, 793rd Military Police Battalion
Lt. Col. Kirt R Boston, 793rd Military Police Battalion commander, the Rev. Joe W. Blackburn, guest speaker, and Col. Adam W. Lange, U.S. Army Alaska‚ deputy commander, pose for a photo after Fort Wainwright's ... More
A black and white photo of two women. Freedmen's bureau black history ...
Find the best copyright-free images of beautiful women. Download all photos, art posters, and prints: images you can use without copyright restrictions, even for commercial purpose.
It's ROTC for me - one cadet's story
Kentucky State University Cadet Trae Walker hopes his experience as a history major, enlisted Soldier and future officer will allow him to be a leader in a more welcoming and inclusive Army.
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Phillip Brashear, a U.S. Army
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Phillip Brashear, a U.S. Army Reserve command chief warrant officer for the 80th Training Command, walks up the steps of the Dudley Memorial Building with his son, Tyler Brashear, an ROT... More
Pastor France A Davis, a notible civil rights activist
Pastor France A Davis, a notible civil rights activist who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement, speaks to members of the Utah Air National Guard to honor Black History Month... More
Airman 1st Class AnnAleada Whitehead, a personnelist,
Airman 1st Class AnnAleada Whitehead, a personnelist, or human resource specialist assigned to the 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, discusses African American History Month. Air National Guard photo... More
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Ronald E. Jolly Sr., U.S.
U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Ronald E. Jolly Sr., U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa logistics, engineering and force protection director, signs a message board during the Juneteenth: Vigil for Healin... More
SASEBO, Japan (Feb. 21, 2018) Lt. j.g. Yusuf Abdullah
SASEBO, Japan (Feb. 21, 2018) Lt. j.g. Yusuf Abdullah speaks at the Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo Black History Month celebration Feb. 21, 2018. The event featured presentations, readings and a speaker wit... More
[Slave quarters on a plantation, possibly in Beaufort, South Carolina]
Photograph shows African Americans standing next to the slave houses, Port Royal, South Carolina. (Source: similar Brady negative: LC-B811-211 and researcher M. P. Higgins, 2018) Photographer name from negativ... More
I am a Patriot d- me Sir and I will be a Patriot ..., British Cartoon ...
Cartoon shows Charles James Fox, an English patriot, standing among a group that includes a small child, an old woman, a slave, and a shoeshiner. This cartoon is an apparent attack on the British Opposition to ... More
Emancipation. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid...
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Nursery at Elliot's Plantation, Hilton Head, S.C.
Photograph shows slaves sitting in from of a building described at the "nursery". Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Edge loss on the upper right corner of the mount. Title is inscribed in ink on the f... More
[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahe...
Top illustration shows slaves escaping to a Union ship as buildings burn in the distance. Three bottom illustrations show an escaped slave in tattered clothing upon his crossing of Union lines, welts from being... More
Whitaker family / photographed by J.A. Palmer, Aiken, S.C.
Photo shows a large African American family of mostly women and children, gathered around the porch of a log and clapboard cabin, with wood shingle roof and stone chimney, and a large cauldron in the foreground... More
[John Brown, 1800-1859, bust portrait, facing right in memorial frame]
Frame includes words "The Just man shall be in eternal remembrance -- Gave his life for the liberation of the slave."
[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...
Line graph shows percentage of African Americans in slavery between 1790 and 1870. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of the ... More
[The Georgia Negro] Slaves and free Negroes. - Exposition Universelle ...
Graph shows percentage of enslaved African Americans compared to free African Americans from 1790 to 1870. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of t... More
[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...
Bar graph shows percentage of African Americans enrolled in public schools between 1876 and 1896. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro ... More
Robert Richardson, miner, arrested for breaking and entering a marine ...
Name: Robert Richardson.Arrested for: not given.Arrested at: North Shields Police Station.Arrested on: 18 November 1907.Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-117-Robert Richardson..For an image of his accomplice... More
Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of former slaves of the Pet...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of slaves of the Pettway pl...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Cars Parked Before Buildin...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Restaurants, shops, art galleries, museums, and accommodations line Race Street in Historic Downtown Cambridge. The town's architecture ... More
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Standing Before the Harrie...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: The Harriet Tubman Organization's president, Donald Pinder, stands before a vibrant, folk art mural depicting Tubman's life. Location: ... More
Woodward Avenue (M-1) - Automotive Heritage Trail - Red Wings Victory ...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Through a canyon of skyscrapers one can see the 2008 Red Wings Stanley Cup Victory Parade and some of the 1million people that came to c... More