VINTAGE FASHIONISTAS II | 1922 Six Howard University students sitting in Griffith Stadium watching football game. All but one of the women wear cloche hats and sporting flapper style outfits. Addison Scurlock, photographer. Image courtesy of the American History Museum, Smithsonian Institute.

VINTAGE FASHIONISTAS II | 1922

Six Howard University students sitting in Griffith Stadium watching football game. All but one of the women wear cloche hats and sporting flapper style outfits. Addison Scurlock, photographer. Image courtesy of the American History Museum, Smithsonian Institute.

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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. FIND US ON TWITTER | FACEBOOK | TUMBLR | FLICKR | PINTEREST

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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Group of young Howard University women in bathing suits seated at the edge of a swimming pool, circa 1950s. Addison Scurlock, photographer. Scurlock Studio Records, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. African American Vernacular Photography courtesy of Black History Album. FIND US ON TWITTER | FACEBOOK | TUMBLR | FLICKR | PINTEREST

Group of young Howard University women in bathing suits seated at the edge of a swimming pool, circa 1950s. Addison Scurlock, photographer. Scurlock Studio Records, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. African American Vernacular Photography courtesy of Black History Album.

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Go Bisons! | 1940s on Flickr. Men’s Cheer Squad, Howard University, Washington DC, 1940s. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution FIND US ON TWITTER | FACEBOOK | FLICKR  SUBCRIBE VIA  RSS | EMAIL

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Men’s Cheer Squad, Howard University, Washington DC, 1940s. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

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Packing the Heat | 1937 on Flickr.Women’s rifle team, Howard University, Washington DC, 1937. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Find Us On Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr | Flickr

Packing the Heat | 1937 on Flickr.

Women’s rifle team, Howard University, Washington DC, 1937. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

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The Brotherhood | 1913 on Flickr. Beta Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha, Howard University, 1913. Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) was the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs) that soon followed in its footsteps. It employs an icon from Ancient Egypt, the Great Sphinx of Giza as its symbol, and its aims are “manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind,” and its motto is First of All, Servants of All, We Shall Transcend All. Credit: Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Lois Turner Williams. Find Us On Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr

The Brotherhood | 1913 on Flickr.

Beta Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha, Howard University, 1913.

Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) was the first Inter-Collegiate Black Greek Letter fraternity. It was founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Alpha Phi Alpha developed a model that was used by the many Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs) that soon followed in its footsteps. It employs an icon from Ancient Egypt, the Great Sphinx of Giza as its symbol, and its aims are “manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind,” and its motto is First of All, Servants of All, We Shall Transcend All.

Credit: Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Lois Turner Williams.

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