Black History Album

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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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BALLERS | 1920s

Alpha Phi Alpha basketball team on the steps on of there fraternity house on Striver’s Row, Harlem, NYC, circa 1920s. By James Van Der Zee Via

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Permalink to Article ~ Posted: April 28, 2013 ~ ( 182 )

Names unknown (circa 1900s)

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GQ | 1930s

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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Permalink to Article ~ Posted: April 13, 2013 ~ ( 170 )

YWCA Camp for Girls (1930) by Addison Scurlock. Image courtesy of the American History Museum, Smithsonian Institute

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Permalink to Article ~ Posted: April 13, 2013 ~ ( 272 )

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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Southern Belle |1920s

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Permalink to Article ~ Posted: April 4, 2013 ~ ( 139 )

BLACK STYLE | LATE 1940s

Three women, one holding a tennis racket, before a statue at Schenley High School, Pitssburgh, PA. Credit: Charles Teenie Harris, photographer. Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970, Carnegie Museum of Art

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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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Permalink to Article ~ Posted: March 23, 2013 ~ ( 213 )

Midnight Train to Georgia | 1942

A group of African American women waiting for their trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station, New York City, 1942.

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LITTLE BRIDE & GROOM (YOUNG LOVE)
Tom Thumb wedding portrait, with bride holding bouquet with gladiolus and large striped ribbon, posed in Charles “Teenie” Harris Studio c. 1945-1950