Early photographs of African Americans produced during the decades following emancipation provide important visual documentation of Black life during the Reconstruction and early Jim Crow eras. Portrait photographs and vernacular images from the late nineteenth century capture African Americans navigating newly won freedoms while confronting the economic and social constraints.....

[African American] [Education] Photo archive of African American schoolgirls in the 1950s. 15 silver gelatin print photos. Photos range in size from 3" x 3" to 4.25" x 3", all are black and white silver gelatin prints printed on Kodak Velox paper. These vernacular photos document jovial times at the.....

[African American] [Travel] Extensive vernacular photo archive of an upper class Black family’s global travel. Circa 1960s-1970s. Archive of approximately 250 original vernacular photographs, the majority in color. Most measure 3.5” x 4.5”. Some bear date stamps ranging from 1960 to 1973. A remarkable visual record of mid-century African American.....

Unidentified photographers, African American family photograph archive, ca. late 1930s–mid 1960s, documents Black family life, social organization, and upward mobility in Grand Rapids, Michigan following the Great Migration, supporting research into African American urban history, community formation in northern cities, and mid-twentieth-century Black middle-class experience. The photographs trace multiple decades.....

Archive of fourteen small-format studio portrait photographs depicting African American men, women, and children during the interwar period, offering a focused visual record of self-representation, dress, and identity formation within Black communities in the era of segregation. Produced within commercial studio settings, the portraits reflect the role of photography as.....

Archive of original vernacular photographs documenting the social world and self-presentation of a group of young African American men and women during the 1920s, capturing leisure, friendship, fashion, and upward mobility within the emerging Black middle class of the interwar period. The photographs record a confident and socially connected cohort.....

[African American] Sixth plate tintype featuring a young African American woman and an African American girl, likely mother and daughter, posed before a wall covered with floral wallpaper. Both of them wear light cotton dresses, the woman dons an updo hair style with ringlet bangs, the young girl's hair scalp.....

19th century Tintype photograph of lovely young African American woman. Size 3.5" x 2.5." A young woman wearing a fashionable two-piece gown stands upright. Her dress has a high collar, with intricate ruffles along the bodice. She rests one hand on the back of a cushioned chair and looks directly.....

[African-American Photography] A silver gelatin photograph of an African-American baptism held on Charlotte, North Carolina farmland. Dated July 3, 1921. Measuring at 3" x 4.5". A multitude of African-American families congregate beside a lake on a lush farm, witnessing a baptism. African-American baptisms in the South were typically held in.....

The Dodge County Citizen Historical newspaper May 12, 1857. with a large ad for the "Kellog's premium ambrotype and daguerreotype gallery. First class pictures taken ... Pictures of children taken almost instantaneously ... pictures taken in all kinds of weather. Mr. K has all improvements in ambrotypes ... the picture.....

[Audrey Hepburn] Archive of 4 black and white silver gelatin press photographs and one in full color, all between the years of 1959 and 1992. Sizes range from 9" x 5" to 8" x 10." In these photographs we see Audrey in various stages throughout her life, beginning with an.....

Caribbean photograph album, likely compiled by a person connected to the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean, documenting how steamship mobility, port circulation, and U.S. imperial presence linked Jamaica, Venezuela, Trinidad, Barbados, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Florida, and Panama in the years after the canal opened. The felt cover.....

[LGBTQ] [Cross-Dressing] Turn-of-the-century photography of queer gender expression and theatrical cross-dressing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Produced in the 1890s through the early 1900s, the photographs capture women presenting in masculine attire and gender-bending costume roles. The material provides visual evidence of gender nonconformance and coded queer.....