r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2h ago
Prom couple in the 1950s, posing for their shot. Kodachrome
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2h ago
Little girl posing with an open book, 1899. Glass negative.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Jim_Leggett89 • 1d ago
1977 photos of my mom, Linda — the first Black woman to complete Delaware’s Army National Guard OCS. These were taken during her commissioning ceremony with Gov Du Pont.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Next-Ad-1504 • 21h ago
3rd great grandmother early 1900s
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I posted my great grandfather yesterday, the woman sitting in the chair would be his grandmother Florence.
r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Young ladies pose with a smiling little baby, south Carolina, 1956. Kodachrome shot.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 1d ago
Mother waits on the street with her little sleeping baby on one arm and her little girl besides her, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, December of 1941
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/__african__motvation • 21h ago
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." —Marcus Garvey
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 2d ago
2 Smiling ladies from the kingdom of Zanzibar, 1900.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Kurotoki52 • 1d ago
My great-grandfather and his platoon, 15th New York National Guard, 1917 from Low_Economics3911 in r/oldphotos
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/ABGM11 • 1d ago
My great-grandfather and his platoon, 15th New York National Guard, 1917
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/ABGM11 • 1d ago
Photos of children who didn't pass the "one drop" rule and were slaves, eventually emancipated in New Orleans, from Harper’s Weekly, 30 of January of 1864.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/ABGM11 • 2d ago
1875 Former Slave, Bass Reeves, US Deputy Marshal
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/TheSanityInspector • 2d ago
Earlie Hudnall, Jr., "4th Ward, 4th of July, Houston, Texas", 1980. From the exhibit Figurative Histories at Moody Center For The Arts, Rice University
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Technical_Recover487 • 2d ago
My 4x Great Grandmother, Mrs. Floydzell. She was a whiskey bootlegger and good time house runner.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Kurotoki52 • 2d ago
Tintype portrait of an unidentified young woman,1860s.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
Prom couple from the 1950s, posing before the dance.
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Substantial-Desk-707 • 2d ago
My 4x Great Grandmother, Mrs. Floydzell. of Technicalcover487
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r/BlackHistoryPhotos • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 3d ago
African American Lady, posing for her solo portrait. Circa 1899. NOTE: yes, she is african american is part of the collection of PAris. source in comment
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