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.
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Sunday’s Best | 1920s
Rensler’s Photography Studio of Cincinnati, Ohio. African American vernacular photography via Black History Album.
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Southern Belle |1920s
Richard Samuel Roberts, photographer
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, especially the rise of the economically secure middle class.
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A Soulful Affair | 1930s
An African American couple in love. Via Black History Album
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By Thomas Hart Benton, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri
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The Ladies & Their Gentlemen | 1900s
African American vernacular photography from the Daniel Cowin Collection via Black History Album.
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Lilies of the Field | 1900
African American vernacular photography from the Daniel Cowin Collection via Black History Album.
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Howard University men’s cheerleaders standing on a sports field each with a megaphone placed in front of them. Addison Scurlock, photographer.Source: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. African American Vernacular Photography courtesy of Black History Album.
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Rip The Runway | 1963
Harlem Fashion Show, Harlem, New York, 1963 by Leonard Freed. African American Vernacular Photography via Black History Album
