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| Stone Center Guide to the Web - Photographs and Images (22 items) |
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- African American Photos for Paris Exposition 1900
- This site is a searchable database of photographs that were part of an exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition that was organized to dispel the negative myths about African Americans at that time. (Source: Library of Congress)
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- American Colonization Society Daguerreotypes
- Part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection, this site contains a gallery of daguerreotypes from the American Colonization Society. This organization was established in 1817 to relocate emancipated and free African-Americans to Africa. (Source: Library of Congress)
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- Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
- Part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection, this site contains a searchable index of the portraiture photography of Carl Van Vechten, whose many subjects include prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance. (Source: Library of Congress)
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- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
- This growing online exhibit features 1,400 photographs taken from The Teenie Harris Archive Project. In his forty year career as a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, Harris documented the Black experience in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Source: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh)
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- Face of Slavery & Other Early Images of African Americans, The
- The Face of Slavery & Other Early Images of African Americans is an online exhibit from the American Museum of Photography. The site includes numerous historical images of slaves and other African Americans from the nineteenth century United States. (Source: American Museum of Photography)
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- FL--Images of Florida's Black History
- This site features images from the Florida Photographic Collection relating to African American history. Included are the images and brief descriptions or backgrounds for each. (Source: State Library and Archives of Florida)
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- G.I. Jones Photographic Archive Of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture
- This site features photographs of Nigeria taken by G.I. Jones in the early 20th century. The collection focuses on photographs of artwork, masks, and cultural ceremonies and artifacts. The site also includes biographical information on Jones, a bibliography, and links for further study. (Source: Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)
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- Holsinger Studio Collection Image Database, The
- This site contains more than 500 portraits taken by photographer Rufus W. Holsinger of African-Americans living in and around Charlottesville, Va., in the late 19th century. (Source: University of Virginia Special Collections Library)
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- Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
- The images available at this site are from collections held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The collection can be accessed via a keyword search or may be browsed by category. Categories include Civil War, education, family, politics, portraits, religion, and slavery. (Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library)
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- Images of Change
- This site is an image gallery of poignant and remarkable photographs taken during the Civil Rights movement. The images are categorized according the major events of the movement, and each is accompanied by a descriptive caption. (Source: Take Stock Photos)
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- Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs
- Located in the University of Virginia Special Collections Library, the Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs were taken by Davis in the early 20th century to document the poor conditions of black schools during the Jim Crow era. The site has a searchable database of more than 6,000 photographs. The site also features a selected bibliography and biography of the photographer. (Source: University of Virginia Special Collections Library)
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- MO--Progress Amidst Prejudice: Portraits of African Americans in Missouri, 1880-1920
- This site features an online digital collection of historical photograph portraits of African Americans in Missouri. Included along with the images is a background history of the collection and detailed lesson plans for teachers. (Source: Missouri State Archives)
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- NYPL Digital Gallery – African American Images
- The NYPL Digital Gallery is a free service from The New York Public Library “offering hundreds of thousands of digital images of historical materials from The Library's original, rare and specialized holdings.” This website presents the NYPL Digital Gallery’s images of and relating to African Americans. Dozens of categories are represented and are organized by occupation or groups of people. (Source: The New York Public Library)
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- NYPL Digital Gallery – Africana and Black History
- This website presents the NYPL Digital Gallery’s Africana and Black History collection of digitized photographs and historical documents. "The collection is comprised of several thousand items relating to African-American history from the sixteenth century to the present." The collection may be searched or browsed, and the website includes links to related subjects in the Digital Gallery and the library divisions that hold each item in the collection. (Source: The New York Public Library)
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- Pictures of African Americans During World War II
- This site features over 250 photographs illustrating African American participation in World War II. The images are organized by subject, and the site includes an introduction to the collection as well as ordering information. (Source: National Archives and Records Administration)
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- Portrait of Black Chicago
- This site contains a photographic exhibit of the work of John H. White, who worked for the Environmental Protection Agency’s DOCUMERICA project from 1973 to 1974. These photographs chronicle the African American community in Chicago during this time period. (Source: National Archives)
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- Powerful Days: Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
- Renowned photographer Charles Moore provided a powerful visual account of the Civil Rights Movement with these photos, many of which were originally published in Life Magazine in the 1960s. Included on the site are photographs of Martin Luther King Jr., the Freedom March, desegregation at the University of Mississippi, protests in Birmingham, and other Civil Rights Movement events. Also included is biographical information on Moore. (Source: John Kaplan, Ohio University)
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- Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), ca. 1872-1898
- This site contains digitized photographs from the collection of Robert E. Williams, an African American photographer working in Augusta, Georgia in the late nineteenth century. The collection consists of 86 images which document the people and lives of African Americans in Augusta during this time period. (Source: Digital Library of Georgia)
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- Sources for Images on African American History
- This site provides information on the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division's holdings of “photographs, prints, posters, and drawings include many works relating to the history of blacks in America from the slavery period through the civil rights era.” The site features sample images, reference aids, online exhibits, and information on how to effectively search for images. (Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)
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- The NYPL Picture Collection Online
- The New York Public Library Picture Collection Online is comprised of digitized images from the NYPL Picture Collection. It includes illustrations from books, newspapers and magazines as well as photographs, prints and postcards, all of which are organized by subject. The Collection includes substantial holdings on African American subjects and may be browsed or searched. (Source: The New York Public Library)
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- Through the Lens of Time: Images of African-Americans from the Cook Collection of Photographs
- This site features the work of two photographers, George and Huestis Cook, who photographed African-American life at the turn of the 20th century in Central Virginia. The site features links to related sites where the Cook photographs can be found. (Source: James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University)
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- TX--Texas African American Photography Archive
- The Texas African American Photography Archive “provides a broad overview of African American photography in the urban and rural areas of Texas” from the 1870s through the present. Included on the site are a photo tour of the archive, information on selected photographers, and information on tours and exhibits. (Source: Documentary Arts)
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