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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Itinerant photographer in Columbus, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1938
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1942
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house (LOC)
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- 79 comments
- 294 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee (LOC)
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- 27 comments
- 399 favorites
- 160,753 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a FSA cooperative, Natchitoches, La. A Negro family (?) seated on the porch of a house (LOC)
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- 14 comments
- 149 favorites
- 142,627 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi (LOC)
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- 23 comments
- 365 favorites
- 140,638 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene Co., Ga. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Living quarters and "juke joint" for migratory workers, a slack season; Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 84 favorites
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- Date taken: 1939
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Negro tenant's home beside the Mississippi River levee, near Lake Providence, La. (LOC)
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- 10 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
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Migratory laborers outside of a "juke joint" during a slack season, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)
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- 82 favorites
- 101,314 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi (LOC)
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- 12 comments
- 356 favorites
- 97,325 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still occupied by Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla. (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 69 favorites
- 97,260 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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An old tenant house with a mud chimney and cotton growing up to its door, which is occupied by Mulattoes, Melrose, La. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 70 favorites
- 95,691 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni, Miss. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 52 favorites
- 88,676 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Two little girls in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 193 favorites
- 86,273 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni, Miss. Delta (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 42 favorites
- 85,428 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Unidentified African American Union soldier with a rifle and revolver in front of painted backdrop showing weapons and American flag at Benton Barracks, Saint Louis, Missouri] (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 42 favorites
- 84,697 views
- Date taken: 1863
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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Bayou Bourbeau plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeau Farmstead Association, a cooperative established through the cooperation of FSA, Natchitoches, La. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 24 favorites
- 84,566 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters] (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 91 favorites
- 83,939 views
- Date taken: 1863
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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[Unidentified African American boy standing in front of painted backdrop showing American flag and tents ; campaign button with portraits of Lincoln on one side and Johnson on the opposite side are attached to inside cover of case] (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 37 favorites
- 80,941 views
- Date taken: 1861
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. Delta (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 79 favorites
- 80,767 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the brn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 29 favorites
- 76,062 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, S.C. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 59 favorites
- 69,714 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Little girl in a park near Union Station, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 68 favorites
- 67,803 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Children in street, Washington, D.C] (LOC)
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- 14 comments
- 51 favorites
- 66,320 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 47 favorites
- 62,967 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 42 favorites
- 61,217 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia] (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 88 favorites
- 58,135 views
- Date taken: 1899
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-01
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A good job in the air cleaner of an army truck, Fort Knox, Ky. This Negro soldier, who serves as truckdriver and mechanic, plays an important part in keeping army transport fleets in operation (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 73 favorites
- 58,132 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia] (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 141 favorites
- 57,743 views
- Date taken: 1899
- Date uploaded: 2010-04-02
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U.S. Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 33 favorites
- 57,309 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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M-4 tank crews of the United States, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 113 favorites
- 56,101 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- 6 comments
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Little girl in a park with Union Station in the background, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 32 favorites
- 54,964 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Portrait of Bill Coleman, Café Society (Downtown), New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948] (LOC)
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- 14 favorites
- 53,705 views
- Date taken: 1946
- Date uploaded: 2010-07-30
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[Unidentified young African American soldier in Union uniform] (LOC)
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- 42 favorites
- 53,072 views
- Date taken: 2012
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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Colored mechanic, motor maintenance section, Ft. Knox, Ky. (LOC)
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- 12 comments
- 71 favorites
- 50,314 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands."... Location: Henderson County, Kentucky (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 47 favorites
- 50,275 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2012-09-14
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 16 favorites
- 47,765 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama (LOC)
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- 97 favorites
- 45,046 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 10 favorites
- 42,794 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Black troops at the Memorial Day parade, Washington, D.C., probably Constitution Avenue] (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 16 favorites
- 42,565 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Ala. (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 50 favorites
- 39,609 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[African American baseball team, Danbury, Connecticut] (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 28 favorites
- 37,853 views
- Date taken: 1880
- Date uploaded: 2009-10-01
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpppmsca11502, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, baseball, team, portrait, men, africanamerican, 23, danbury, connecticut, 1880s, africanamericanbaseballplayers
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Street photographer. Smithfield, North Carolina. (LOC)
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- 16 comments
- 145 favorites
- 37,381 views
- Date uploaded: 2016-04-22
- Tags: libraryofcongress, street, vintage, africanamerican, man, men, smithfield, northcarolina, 1936, hustle, contrast, hats, photographerinthepicture, photographersacrossthecommons
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[Unidentified African American soldier in Union infantry sergeant's uniform and black mourning ribbon with bayonet in front of painted backdrop] (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 61 favorites
- 36,492 views
- Date taken: 1863
- Date uploaded: 2013-06-28
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Sam Langford (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 42 favorites
- 35,809 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-10-31
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