Black Couple | 1902

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

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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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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.

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Black Style | 1891

Studio portrait of an African American female equestrian rider from the late 1800s. Identified as Selika Lazevski photographed in 1891 by Felix Nadar in Paris, France.

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Shy Beauty | The Black Victorians | 1897

Studio portrait photograph of young African American woman wearing scarf, circa 1897 Caption: Entrekin & Kuebler, 1204 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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THE BLACK VICTORIANS

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

FLY GIRL
African American aviatrix Bessie Coleman (1892 - 1926).

AWESOME 70S

Leslie Uggams strikes a pose.

Farewell Friend, circa 1930  ©Waheed Photo Archive 2012

SWITCHBOARD JAM
Thelma Lake of New York doing the Switchboard Jam, Jet Magazine, August 6, 1953 via Vieilles-Nouvelles

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QUEEN BESS | 1960s

Homecoming queen, 1960s. ©Alonzo Jordan/Courtesy of Steidl

A barber by trade, Alonzo Jordan (1903–1984) took up photography to fill a need he recognized in his community of Jasper, Texas, and over the course of his career actively documented the world in which he lived and worked, focusing on those civic events, social organizations, schools, churches, and activities that were integral to the daily life of the people he served.

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Alberto Henschel, Foto de negra com turbante (“negro woman with turbin), Brazil, ca. 1870. Source: Coleção Gilberto Ferrez/Acervo Instituto Moreira Salles

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Hipsters | 1943

A group portrait of two African American couples, circa 1943. Charles “Teenie” Harris, Photographer.Carnegie Museum of Art. African American vernacular photography via Black History Album.

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The Mermaid | 1944

Woman wearing one-piece skirted bathing suit reclining on swimming pool diving board, circa 1944. Charles “Teenie” Harris, photographer. Carnegie Museum of Art.via Black History Album.

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