[African American][New Deal][Labor] Black Civilian Conservation Corps member photograph archives, showing an all-Black CCC unit in Pennsylvania, ca. 1937. These photographs document the experiences of Black participants in the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the central employment and public works initiatives created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Established.....

[African American Military Service] African American U.S. Navy photograph archive documenting naval service, segregation, training, and enlisted social life from the interwar period through World War II, with direct evidence of how Black sailors and Seabees moved through the Navy’s expanding but racially divided wartime structure. The group centers on.....

African American family photograph album, 1930s, Mt. Hope, Missouri, documents the daily life, social relationships, and labor conditions of a Black family during the Great Depression and provides direct evidence of both domestic life and employment structures in a rural Midwestern setting. Centered on the Berry family, including Helen Berry.....

African American stereoview archive documenting Black labor in cotton, rice, turpentine, phosphate, fruit, and plantation agriculture across the post Reconstruction South and Caribbean, 1890s-1900s, showcasing how emancipation gave way to a new labor order structured by low wages, racial control, export agriculture, and restricted economic mobility. Images show how Black.....

Unidentified photographers, two albumen photographs of Black laborers, circa 1890s to early 1900s, document agricultural and skilled work performed by African Americans in the decades following emancipation, when systems of sharecropping and tenant farming structured rural economies across the American South and parts of the Caribbean. These images provide visual.....

Bibb Manufacturing Company workers, machinery, and safety campaigns inside the Star Mill and No. 2 Mill complexes in Macon, Georgia, photographed between 1966 and 1969, capturing a Southern textile workforce in the years immediately following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the federal desegregation orders that opened previously segregated.....

[African American] [Photography] [Chicago] Demlinger, Sandor. Photographs of African American life, 1947 to 1992 document Black labor, domestic life, and musical culture across mid to late twentieth century America through the work of a Chicago based photographer engaged with the city’s jazz and working class environments. Produced across multiple decades.....

Anonymous photographs of Black nannies caring for white children, produced c. 1920s–1940s, document the racialized structure of domestic labor in the United States during the Jim Crow period and provide primary-source evidence for the study of African American women’s work, childcare, and social relations within white households. The images show.....

Unknown photographer, group of prison labor photographs, circa 1940s, documenting the use of incarcerated African American men in organized manual labor within the mid-twentieth-century United States penal system. The material documents the system of carceral labor through visual evidence of supervised work assignments, revealing how incarcerated individuals were deployed in.....

African American plantation labor photographic archive, 1890s–1900s, documenting the working and living conditions of Black agricultural laborers in the post-Emancipation rural South. These images record individuals engaged in cotton production and related rural labor, providing visual evidence of the continuation of exploitative labor systems such as sharecropping and tenant farming.....

Woodson, Carter Godwin. The Journal of Negro History. Archive of three significant issues published between 1943 and 1946 documenting the continued expansion of African American historical scholarship during the Second World War and immediate postwar period. The material records Black intellectual production, historical recovery, and interdisciplinary scholarship through the editorial.....

Unidentified police photographers, mugshot photograph archive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1950s to 1960s, documenting law enforcement identification practices applied to African American men in an urban mid-twentieth-century context. The material documents criminal identification systems through standardized booking photography, revealing how individuals were processed, recorded, and categorized by police authorities, and providing.....

Woodson, Carter Godwin. The Journal of Negro History. Archive of two significant issues published in 1931 and 1938 documenting the institutional growth and expanding scholarly scope of African American historiography during the interwar period. The material records Black intellectual production, historical scholarship, and diasporic research through the editorial and publishing.....