BLACK VICTORIANS | 1905 Hugh Mangum Photographs Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University (circa 1900s) Black History Album, The Way We WereFollow us on TUMBLR  PINTEREST  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

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Hugh Mangum Photographs Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University (circa 1900s)

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“Evening Attire” - portrait by James Van Der Zee, 1922 Black History Album, The Way We WereFollow us on TUMBLR  PINTEREST  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

“Evening Attire” - portrait by James Van Der Zee, 1922

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TRICK OR TREAT Children wearing Halloween costumes at Bedford Dwellings. c. 1941. Charles Teenie Harris, photographer. Teenie Harris Archives, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Black History Album, The Way We WereFollow us on TUMBLR  PINTEREST  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

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Children wearing Halloween costumes at Bedford Dwellings. c. 1941. Charles Teenie Harris, photographer. Teenie Harris Archives, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

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HAVE BIKE, WILL TRAVEL | 1911African American bicyclists, Denver, CO by Charles S. Lillybridge. Courtesy of the Colorado Historical Society. Black History Album, The Way We WereFollow us on TUMBLR  PINTEREST  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

HAVE BIKE, WILL TRAVEL | 1911
African American bicyclists, Denver, CO by Charles S. Lillybridge. Courtesy of the Colorado Historical Society.

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antanlontan: She is a Tree of Life, II, Florida, 1950, Consuelo Kanaga (via)

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BACKSEAT DRIVER | 1949 Lucille takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong plays outside of the Colosseum in Rome in 1949 - Taken by Slim Aarons on Flickr Via Vieilles-Annonces

BACKSEAT DRIVER | 1949

Lucille takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong plays outside of the Colosseum in Rome in 1949 - Taken by Slim Aarons on Flickr Via Vieilles-Annonces

BLACK STYLE | 1940s Young woman posing on bench in Harris studio. Credit: Charles Teenie Harris, photographer. Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970, Carnegie Museum of Art via Black History Album, The Way We WereFollow us on TUMBLR  PINTEREST  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

BLACK STYLE | 1940s

Young woman posing on bench in Harris studio. Credit: Charles Teenie Harris, photographer. Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970, Carnegie Museum of Art

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Exotic dancer Sahji signed photo, Photographer James Kollar Studios. R.K.O. Bldg, Rockefeller Center, N.Y. VIA

Exotic dancer Sahji signed photo, Photographer James Kollar Studios. R.K.O. Bldg, Rockefeller Center, N.Y. VIA

JIMI HENDRIX, LOVE TO THE POWER “WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE OVERCOMES THE LOVE OF POWER THIS WORLD WILL KNOW PEACE” — Jimi Hendrix . Photo by David Montgomery Black History Album, The Way We WereFollow us on TUMBLR  PINTEREST  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

JIMI HENDRIX, LOVE TO THE POWER

“WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE OVERCOMES THE LOVE OF POWER THIS WORLD WILL KNOW PEACE” — Jimi Hendrix

. Photo by David Montgomery

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THE GREAT GATSBY | 1932

 An unidentified African American couple with matching raccoon skin coats with a Cadillac convertible, taken on West 127th Street, Harlem, New York City. Image by James Van Der Zee.

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Photograph of Clotilde in Sam Robinson “We’ve Got It Co.” 1922 Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Photograph of Clotilde in Sam Robinson “We’ve Got It Co.” 1922 Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Young African American Girl, c. 1855. Courtesy of The Kinsey Collection Black History Album, The Way We WereFollow us on TUMBLR  PINTEREST  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

Young African American Girl, c. 1855. Courtesy of The Kinsey Collection

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QUEEN AIDA (1880-1914) Victorian-era dancer and musical comedy star Aida Overton Walker,  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library via ofanotherfashion: Black History Album, The Way We WereFollow us on TUMBLR  PINTEREST  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

QUEEN AIDA (1880-1914)

Victorian-era dancer and musical comedy star Aida Overton Walker,  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

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Southern Belle |1920s By Richard Samuel Roberts, from the book, A True Likeness—The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts: 1920-1936, which depicts South Carolina’s African-American life in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Black History Album, The Way We WereFollow us on TUMBLR  PINTEREST  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

Southern Belle |1920s

By Richard Samuel Roberts, from the book, A True Likeness—The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts: 1920-1936, which depicts South Carolina’s African-American life in the 1920’s and 1930’s.

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VINTAGE FASHIONISTAS | 1921 The Sisters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the University of Pennsylvania’s first Black sorority, 1921. VIA Black History Album, The Way We WereFollow us on TUMBLR  PINTEREST  FACEBOOK  TWITTER

VINTAGE FASHIONISTAS | 1921

The Sisters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the University of Pennsylvania’s first Black sorority, 1921. VIA

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