Graduation Day | 1939
By James Van Der Zee (1886-1983). Gelatin silver print, hand colored, 1939 via Museum of the International Center of Photography. Gift of The Sandor Family Collection, 2000

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Too Cute | Black Victorians | 1880

Credit: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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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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LIL’ MISS SWEET THANG! | 1950s

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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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BUFFALO SOLDIER A studio portrait of an unidentified African American soldier posing with buffalo hide. ca. 1860-1880. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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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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Little Darlings | 1940s

gomboscholar:

Dizzy Gillespie will forever be that dude!

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FOR BETTER OR WORSE
Formal studio wedding portrait of an African American bride and groom. James Van Der Zee, photographer.

Little Miss Muffin | Undated

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Vintage photo of a lovely African American couple posing for a studio portrait, possibly from the mid to late 1940s

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ofanotherfashion:

This is my mother, Barbara Taylor Jewell, who passed away in November. The photo was taken in 1947 when she was a freshman entering Clark College (now Clark-Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia.  The photographer liked my mother’s photo and the “unusual” hairstyle she styled herself. He asked if he could use her photo as one of his samples. My grandmother, who insisted on meeting him first, approved.

Submitted by Joseph O. Jewell (College Station, TX)

Young, Black & Victorian | 1890

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