Images
The following images of notable African Americans or subjects of similar interest are a sampling of the exhaustive image resources available from the Library of the Congress and other partner agencies.
Please note: This list represents only a selection of the digital and physical holdings of the participating agencies.
Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston
Collection:
Miscellaneous Items in High Demand |
Susie King Taylor
Collection:
Miscellaneous Items in High Demand |
Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front
Collection:
Miscellaneous Items in High Demand |
Interior Secretary Ickes congratulates Marian Anderson at concert. Washington, D.C., April 9. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who introduced Marian Anderson at her open-air concert at the shrine of the president who freed her race from slavery, congratulating her after the concert to which an estimated 75,000 listened
Collection:
Harris & Ewing Collection |
The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones the greatest singer of her race.
Collection:
Posters: Performing Arts Posters |
Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee
Collection:
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs |
Young African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right, with hands folded on her lap
Collection:
African American photographs for the Paris Exposition of 1900 |
Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune
Collection:
Portraits of African American Leaders |
Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C.
Collection:
The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection |
A slave-coffle passing the Capitol
Collection:
Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom
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Ralph Abernathy, head-and-shoulders, at National Press Club luncheon.
Collection:
Images of 20th Century African American Activists: A Select List |
Liljenquist Collection of Civil War Portraits
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Map of Liberia / compiled from data on file in the office of the American Colonization Society, under the direction of the Revd. W. McLain, secy., by R. Coyle.
Collection:
Maps of Liberia: 1830 - 1870 |
Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry
Collection:
Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War: A List of Images in the Civil War Photograph Collection |
"A drinking fountain." [Sign: "White."]
Collection:
Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographers
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The storming of the engine house by the U.S. Marines.
Wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, Nov. 5, 1859,
after Porte Crayon (David H. Strother).
Collection:
John Brown and Harper's Ferry |
Sale of ... slaves in the rotunda, New Orleans.
Collection:
Pictorial Americana: Slavery |
William A. Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs |
Other Sources for Images from the Library of Congress
