Vintage Photographs of Black Americans in the late 1800's - mid 1900's

[Skooby]

A man who married a distant relative. Picture is probably sometime in the 1890s.

Great Grandmothers sister: Late 1920s

Great Grandfather: 1940s.

 

[MikelArteta]

and we think we have life hard

 

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Old African-American man selling strawberries on street, Washington, D.C. - two small boys, one White and one African-American, are looking at the strawberries
Creator(s): Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
Date Created/Published: [ca. 1900]

Unidentified African American soldier in uniform and campaign hat sitting next to vase of flowers and American flag in front of painted backdrop

African American men posed at entrance to building, some with derbys and top hats, and banner labeled "Waiters Union" in Georgia

African American man and child, full-length portrait, facing front / Bundy & Williams, photographers, Middleton, Conn.
Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1870]

Portrait of two unidentified African American children
Date Created/Published: [between 1865? and 1870]

Full-length portrait of an unidentified woman, seated, and full-length portrait of a child standing on her right, both subjects are facing front
Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1870]

Young African American boy sitting on a case / photographed by Black.
Date Created/Published: Boston : J.E. Tilton & Co. ... 161 Washn. St., [between 1860 and 1870]

Full-length portrait of an African American woman seated holding an African American infant
Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1870]

Two African American boys, full-length portrait, facing front / J. R. Shockley, photographer, West Side of Main St., Hannibal, Mo.
Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1865]

Unidentified soldier in Union officer's uniform and young African American boy
Date Created/Published: [between 1861 and 1865]

Full-length portrait of an African American man with a basket and a cane, standing, facing front
Date Created/Published: [between 1864 and 1867]

Half-length portrait of an African American man facing right / D. G. Lawton, Leesburg, Fla.
Date Created/Published: [between 1870 and 1880]

 

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Rear view of truck carrying African Americans during the Tulsa, Okla. riot of 1921

Furniture in street during race riot, probably due to White Terrorism, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921

Rubble of houses in African American neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla. after race riots

Truck on street near Litan Hotel carrying soldiers and African Americans during Tulsa, Okla., race riot in 1921

After the Tulsa mob had passed

Mary Brice (or Bryce) of Point of Honor, Lynchburg, Virginia, half-length portrait, seated of middle-aged enslaved African American woman
Date Created/Published: [ca. 1853]

African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: At the pump - 3 African Americans at water pump
Date Created/Published: c1879.

Unidentified African American woman
Date Created/Published: [United States], [between 1860 and 1870]

Unidentified African American woman
Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1870]

Unidentified African American man / Johnson, 809 Penna. Avenue, Washington, D.C.
Date Created/Published: [Washington, D.C.] : [Johnson, 809 Penna. Avenue], [1870s]

African American woman identified as "Aunt Fannie," "servant"/ enslaved by the Lott family
Date Created/Published: [New York] : [Fredricks & O'Neil, Fifth Avenue Photograph Gallery, 179 Fifth Avenue], [1860s]

Eliza and Lizzie, children of Dred Scott Dred Scott ; His wife, Harriet.
Date Created/Published: [New York] : [Frank Leslie], 1857.

Two young African American women, probably somewhere in Virginia
Date Created/Published: ca. 1910.

South Carolina. Charleston. African American women carrying baskets of vegetables on their heads

African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.
Date Created/Published: c1879.

 

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[Joe Sixpack]

 

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Caroline Still Anderson seated, likely her two daughters standing to the left and right of her. In the original photograph children are cropped.

Photograph of two African-American workers on a cotton field posing, Greene County, Georgia, 1940 Oct. 29

Thomas County, ca. 1895. Portrait of a black woman laborer.

This photograph was taken by A. W. Moller who was of Thomasville, Georgia at the time the photograph was taken.

Photograph of woman picking cotton, Thomas County, Georgia, ca. 1895

Photograph of farm laborer, Thomas County, Georgia, ca. 1895

Thomas County, ca. 1895. Women washing clothes.

 

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1850-1870: A black-and-white photograph of three women seated in a row with their arms linked together at the elbows and their hands placed in their laps right-over-left. All three women wear dresses made from a dark fabric with light-colored polka dots. Each wears a small white collar of slightly different styles. The woman in the center and the woman at the right facing side have gold rings on their fingers. All three women wear their hair pulled up in the back of the head. The photograph is housed behind decorative gold foil inside a black leather-covered wood case with a missing lid.

1865: Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, United States, North and Central America
A small black-and-white print of a woman in a floral patterned dress and a white collar with her arm around a young boy in a button down shirt and pants. He stands beside her while she sits.

Sen. William Beverly Nash, American, 1822 - 1888

Sarah Ann Blunt Crozley, American, born 1820

 

[Geode]

Excellent thread!

 

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Dope ass thread.

 

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Unidentified African American soldier in Union Zouave uniform - between 1861 and 1865

Memphis, Tenn. A secondhand clothing and pawn shop and a cheap rate hotel, 1939 October.

John Bray, half-length portrait, standing with hand on shoulder, Amelia, Louisiana, 1934

Jubilee singers, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. / negative by Black. 1872

Junior normal class of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, seated on steps outside of building, between 1890 and 1906

Four young men posed on outdoor steps, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. 1899

Extempo club of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. 1899

Photograph shows educator and civil rights activist Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964), seated, with book on her lap.

Photograph shows John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), who was an abolitionist, first dean of the law school at Howard University and U.S. Representative from Virginia. (Source: researcher J. Morgan, 2017)

Photograph shows an enslaved African American family or families posed in front of wooden house, on the plantation of Dr. William F. Gaines, Hanover County, Virginia. -- Hanover County, Virginia - 1862

Photograph shows a three-quarter-length portrait of Hannah Richards (1800?-1889?), an ex-slave, freed by her owner Gabriel Richards in 1826.

Portrait of educator Clarissa M. Thompson, 1872

In the Alexandria glass factories, negroes work side by side with the white workers. Also in Richmond. These are some of those working in Alexandria (Va.) Glass Factory. Location: Alexandria, Virginia. 1911

"Boshe," Head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of an African American man wearing a hat, profile, facing right. c1902 July 24.

Uncle Vince, Photograph shows three-quarter length portrait of an old African American man wearing hat. 1902

Sam, Photograph shows three-quarter length portrait of an old African American man wearing hat. 1902

Matt, Photograph shows three-quarter length portrait of an old African American man wearing hat. 1902

African American boy, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile, 1899

Young Negro girl holding bag, 1930

Maum Duck (Mrs. Doctor), South Carolina, between ca. 1929 and 1931

The wonderful Anna Julia Cooper

 

[staticshock]

Reason why I hate lazy folks these days & why I grind so hard.

Look at what our ancestors had to go through

 

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[Full-length portrait of unidentified African American man in suit, standing next to a table] / Whiddit & Coffin, Photographers, 82 Water Street, Newburgh, N.Y. -- 1860

Half-length portrait of an African American man, possibly a Buffalo soldier - 1866

Leake, R.H.W. -- [between 1873 and 1890]

Roger Williams University--Nashville, Tenn.--Normal class - Group portrait of African American students, facing front. C. 1899

[Roof construction by students at Tuskegee Institute, ca. 1902]

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly left] ca.1899-1900

Siloam, Greene County, Ga. (vicinity). Midwife going on a call, carrying her kit

[Executive board of Women's League, Newport, R.I.] - 1899

Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) and Martha Promise Ledbetter, Wilton, Conn. 1935