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Fairy Tale Mural in Children's Ward of Harlem Hospital

Front row: Zell Ingram, Pemberton West, Augusta Savage, Robert Pious, Sara West, Gwendolyn Bennett; back row: Elton Fax, Rex Gorleigh, Fred Perry, William Artis, Francisco Lard, Louis Jefferson, Norman Lewis

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Crowd outside the Lafayette Theatre, in Harlem, at the opening of "Macbeth" produced by the WPA Federal Theatre Project, 1936.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t More

Living room scene - A black and white photo of a group of people

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Fife and drum competition trophy

Rhythym Bands - from 18 months to 10 years

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Tiny Tot's Band - 18 months to 4 years

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18 months to 5 years - A group of young children holding drums in a classroom

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Classes in Plaza Music Center

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Scout Troop - A group of men in uniform standing in front of a stage

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Lobby card for Oscar Micheaux's 1940 motion picture "The Notorious Elinor Lee"

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View of Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. (front row, sixth from right), with other United States Army officers and enlisted men, attending a Sunday morning open air service at an undisclosed U.S. Army headquarters in England, ca 1940s

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Saint John's Methodist Church Sexton, Peter Williams, 1801

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"Huge hand span makes ball handling easy"

Ruby Dee and Jackie Robinson in a scene from the motion picture The Jackie Robinson Story

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Singer James Brown being greeted by fans upon his arrival at Kaduna Airport

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The breakdown - Engraving, Public domain image

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Double ambrotype portrait of Albro Lyons, Sr. and Mary Joseph Lyons.

The riots at New York - The rioters burning and sacking the Colored Orphan Asylum.

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Fifth Avenue north from 120th Street, 1880, Harlem, New York City

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[Unidentified standing figures: woman, her folded arms leaning on back of chair, and young man, probably her son, left hand on book.]

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Portrait of Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer

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Portrait of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, bibliophile

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The Dining Saloon of the S. S. Siberia -- Atlas Line Service New York to Jamaica.

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The first convention of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, Boston, 1909

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Afrique Occidentale (Sénégal) Dakar Hôtel de Ville

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The Famous Cotton Club presents Dan Healy's Cotton Club on Parade with Cab Calloway and his famous Cotton Club Orchestra.

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Doe Doe Green, Lester Palmer, Sybil Moore, "Aggie", and Clifton Davis

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"Pursuit of Happiness" hunters

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"Joe Louis Wins" - front page featuring Louis's victory in rematch with German boxer Max Schmeling

An unidentified African American physician, assisted by a nurse, treating a baby born with a club foot at an unidentified public health clinic, circa 1945

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Jackie Robinson and Louise Beavers in a scene from the motion picture The Jackie Robinson Story

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Col. McKee, grandson passed for white.

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Dancers performing the Cakewalk

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Portrait of Frederick Douglass from frontispiece and title page of his book "My Bondage and My Freedom," published in 1856.

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Prospectus for an anti-slavery paper. To be entitled North Star.

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Albro Lyons, Jr. - Early photography, Public domain image

Negroes leaving their home - A black and white drawing of people on a river

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Lenox Avenue north from 110th Street and Central Park, 1869, Harlem, New York City

Portrait of Hon. Jonathan Jasper Wright, Judge of the Supreme Court of South Carolina

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Studio portrait of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg as a young child in Puerto Rico, age 4

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Unidentified standing figures: woman, her folded arms leaning on back of chair, and young man, probably her son, left hand on book.

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Off Port Royal, -- Entrance to Kingston's Fine Harbor. The Palatial Cruising Yacht, Prinzessin Victoria Louise (Hamburg-Amerocan Line) coming out, Jamaica.

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Charles Lucas and Iris Hall in another scene from The Homesteader

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Types africains. - Concours de sourires, circa 1923

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Crowds outside the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem at the opening of "Macbeth" produced by the Federal Negro Theatre

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The Zoo: Act II, Scene 2

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"Pursuit of Happiness" horns

Captain Mary L. Petty, Chief Nurse, holding a glass bottle and showing it to 2nd Lieutenant Olive Bishop, who is writing on a small pad of paper, Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

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Plato's office staff for Wake and Midway Halls; Samuel Plato, contractor, and part of his office staff at their field headquarters for the construction of Wake and Midway Halls, now being completed for 1,000 Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C.; Left to right [clockwise]: Zelda S. Wilson, Mildred Dunn, Wilhelmena Barnett, Mrs. Elnora Plato (wife of the contractor and his chief accountant), Mr. Plato and Frances Purdy, March 1943.

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Maritcha Lyons and her younger sister Pauline

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Colored emigrants seeking homes in the North

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City Dairy at the southeast corner of East 116th Street and Fourth Avenue, in Harlem, New York City, 1889

Rev. Mrs. J. H. Vigal of Buffalo, N.Y., arm raised, holding Bible.

Schomburg among Masons and Odd Fellows at the cornerstone laying of the Ionic Temple, 165 or 167 Claremont Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y., April 1, 1922.

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The King Street Market, Kingston, Jamaica.

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Female dancer in flowered dress

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Clarence Yates and Francina Scott in a grotesque ballet dance

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"Pursuit of Happiness" post boxes

Aids recovery of wounded soldiers

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Interior view of Smalls Paradise, with inset portrait of owner Ed Smalls

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Marcus Garvey, Eminent Scholar - Public domain portrait print

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WACs expediting soldiers' mail at camp postoffice.

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Mary Joseph Marshall Lyons - Public domain portrait photograph

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Mine oysters - Dredging boats in the Chesapeake

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Studio portrait of [Patrick Reason].

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Harbor Street looking East, Kingston, Jamaica.

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Founding members of the Niagara Movement

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Opportunity magazine article, "The Schomburg Library Opened to Students," June 1926.

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Juanita Hall, conducting the Negro Melody Singers

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Ting-A-Ling Bros. Circus: Act II, Scene 3

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"Pursuit of Happiness" hallway

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Army nurses standing at attention in front of their barracks and being inspected by staff officers, Army nurse training center, England.

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