Black History Album: The Way We Were

A vintage photo blog chronicling the life and times of Blacks in America. How we lived, loved, struggled & triumphed from the end of slavery in 1865 to the Black Power movement of the 1960s.

Posted 3 months ago
At Your Service | 1885

An African American boy in bell-hop’s uniform, ca. 1885. Randolph L. Simpson African-American Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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