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LL/16222
ThumbnailSamuel Broadbent 
Portrait of an African American gentleman 
n.d. 
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, hand tinted 
Collection Matthew R. Isenburg 

  
LL/47651
ThumbnailThomas Easterly 
Unidentified young African American woman, profile view. 
n.d. 
Daguerreotype 
Missouri Historical Society 
Identifier: PHO:17332, http://collections.mohistory.org/photo/PHO:17332 
  

  
LL/38169
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
[Portrait of a black "nanny" with white child (female) on her lap, the nurse wearing a bandana] 
1855 (ca) 
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate 
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Call number: Uncat JWJ MS 59, Image ID Number: 1010061 
  

  
LL/45566
ThumbnailJeremiah Gurney 
Woman and Child 
n.d. 
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate 
American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution 
Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection, made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment 
  

  
LL/6936
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
Portrait of black woman holding white child 
1860 (ca) 
Ambrotype 
6.9 x 5.6 cm; 1/6 plate 
George Eastman House 
Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Mr. Donald Weber (95:2687:0001) 
  

  
LL/19236
ThumbnailHenry Pollock (Baltimore) 
An African-American slave, with her arm wrapped around the younger of two siblings 
1850 (ca) 
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate, hand-tinted 
Swann Galleries - New York 
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, May 22, 2007, #2115, Lot 206) 
  

  
LL/38267
ThumbnailJoseph B. Starkweather 
African American Miner Working a Long Tom 
1852 (ca) 
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate 
California State LIbrary 
Record no: 001379055 
  

  
LL/9189
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
African American Man with Square Goatee 
1855 (ca) 
Ambrotype, 1/6 plate 
Charles Schwartz Ltd 
Courtesy of Charles Schwartz Ltd (www.cs-photo.com - #6672) 
  

  
LL/16214
ThumbnailKnapp (103 Bowery, New York) 
Negro [Schwarze Frau] 
1845-1852 
Daguerreotype, with gold coloring 
5.6 x 6.9 / 7 x 8.2 cm 
Private collection of W. & T. Bosshard 
Courtesy of Carl Mautz Vintage Photography & Publishing 
  
10 
  
LL/7492
ThumbnailEzra Greenleaf Weld 
Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York 
1850, Aug 22 
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate 
2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in 
J. Paul Getty Museum 
The J. Paul Getty Trust (84.XT.1582.5) 
  
11 
  
LL/33082
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Portrait of an unidentified African-American Woman 
1850 (ca) 
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate, with applied color 
George Eastman House 
12 
  
LL/33086
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Frederick Douglass 
1847 (ca) 
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate 
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution 
13 
  
LL/7493
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
Nude Study of a Black Female 
1855 (ca) 
Daguerreotype, mammoth plate 
10 1/4 x 9 7/32 in 
J. Paul Getty Museum 
The J. Paul Getty Trust (84.XT.256) 
  
14 
  
LL/40997
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
African American traveling musicians 
1870
Tintype 
Carte de visite size 
Andrew Daneman collection of American Tintypes 
15 
  
LL/22339
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Black Boy with his Dog 
n.d. 
Tintype 
CDV size 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (50 / 32) 
  
16 
  
LL/34584
ThumbnailCharles Paxson 
Learning is Wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa. Slaves from New Orleans 
1864 
Carte de visite 
Charles Schwartz Ltd 
17 
  
LL/28239
ThumbnailC. D. Tinsley (Batavia, IA) 
A young African-American baby 
n.d. 
Cabinet card 
Capitol Gallery 
Courtesy of Capitol Gallery (Spring 2008 Auction) 
  
18 
  
LL/39636
ThumbnailCollins (Huntsville, Ala.) 
Uncle Harmon Vann, 104 years old, Huntsville, Ala., 1898 
1898 
Cabinet card 
New York Public Library 
Courtesy of The New York Public Library www.nypl.org, Image ID: 06SCCAB 
  
19 
  
LL/34261
ThumbnailElliott (Marion, Iowa) 
Two African American cowboys wearing chaps and spurs 
n.d. 
Cabinet card 
La Bonne Vivante 
20 
  
LL/17150
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Intense young man on wicker chair 
1910-1915 (ca) 
Real photo postcard 
Michael Maslan Vintage Posters, Photographs, Postcards & Ephemera 
21 
  
LL/6750
ThumbnailC.H. Gallup & Co 
Racist commercial advertising card for C.H. Gallup & Co., Poughkeepsie, NY. the classic "darkies and the watermelon" scenario. Unusual split image. 
n.d. 
 
Location and source information requested 
[Further information sought] 
  
22 
  
LL/27713
ThumbnailGates (Addison N.Y., branch of Forestville Studio, Chicago) 
Black Woman with Letter 
n.d. 
Cabinet card 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 84) 
  
23 
  
LL/39379
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Unknown African American sitter 
1860s (ca) 
Salted paper print, hand-colored 
Princeton University Library 
Purchased with funds from the Graphic Arts Collection, African American Studies, and WomenÆs Studies. 
  
24 
  
LL/39373
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Unknown African American sitter 
1880 (ca) 
Tintype, full-plate, hand-colored 
Princeton University Library 
Purchased with funds from the Graphic Arts Collection, African American Studies, and WomenÆs Studies. 
  
25 
  
LL/44750
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Marguerite, A Former Slave 
1870s (early) 
Tintype, whole plate, hand-colored 
Cornell University Library 
26 
  
LL/35978
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth 
1860s (ca) 
Carte de visite 
Private collection of Laddy Kite 
27 
  
LL/39635
ThumbnailL.A. Sawyer 
University Singers of New Orleans; In aid of Colored Orphans' Home of Louisiana. 
1880s (ca) 
Cabinet card 
New York Public Library 
Courtesy of The New York Public Library www.nypl.org, Image ID: 02SCCAB 
  
28 
  
LL/40560
ThumbnailMyron H. Kimball (American, active 1860s) 
Emancipated Slaves 
1863 
Albumen silver print, from glass negative 
13.2 x 18.3cm (5 3/16 x 7 3/16in.) (image) 19.9 x 25.2 cm (7 13/16 x 9 15/16 ins) (oval mat) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.92 
  
29 
  
LL/31071
ThumbnailJames Van der Zee 
Portrait of a Harlam Gentleman 
1925 
Gelatin silver print, brown-toned 
10 x 8 in 
Be-Hold 
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (52 / 122) 
  
30 
  
LL/7268
ThumbnailJames Van der Zee 
Couple, Harlem 
1932 
Gelatin silver print 
7 3/8 x 9 7/16 in (18.73 x 23.97 cm) (image) 
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts 
Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, The Stanley Hawks Memorial Fund (74.36.16) 
  
31 
  
LL/27652
ThumbnailConsuelo Kanaga 
Young Girl in Profile 
[An American Gallery] 
1948 (print) 2007 (publication) 
Book plate 
Lumiere Press 
Courtesy of Lumiere Press and Howard Greenberg Gallery 
  
32 
  
LL/40482
ThumbnailMinor B. Wade (American, 1874-1932) 
[Lynching, Russellville, Kentucky] 
1908 
Gelatin silver print 
11.8 x 9.1 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 ins) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.126 
  
33 
  
LL/1645
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
Howard A. Wooten. (Graduated December 1944 from Air Corps School, Tuskegee, AL.) 
1944, December (ca) 
 
National Archives and Records Administration 
National Archives [ARC Identifier: 512886] 
  
34 
  
LL/27557
ThumbnailErnest Withers 
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. resting in the Lorraine Motel following the March Against Fear, Memphis, TN 
1966 
Gelatin silver print / Inkjet print 
5 x 7 in / 8 x 10 in 
Decaneas Archive 
Courtesy of the Decaneas Archive 
  
35 
  
LL/29391
ThumbnailH.C. Anderson 
A Family of three, Standing at the Studio 
1965 (ca) 
Gelatin silver print 
14 x 11 in 
Charles Schwartz Ltd 
36 
  
LL/47761
ThumbnailCharles Moore 
Birmingham, USA, manifestations pour les droits civiques 
1963 (taken) 1980 (ca, print) 
Gelatin silver print 
27.1 x 34 cm 
Millon et Asocies 
Millon & Associés, Auction, (13 May 2012, Lot: 127) 
  
37 
  
LL/27560
ThumbnailErnest Withers 
William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones (8 months old) during protest march on Main St., Memphis, TN The little girl grew up to become a doctor. 
1961, August 
Gelatin silver print / Inkjet print 
5 x 7 in / 8 x 10 in 
Decaneas Archive 
Courtesy of the Decaneas Archive 
  
38 
  
LL/27552
ThumbnailErnest Withers 
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy ride on one of the first desegregated buses, Montgomery, AL 
1956, 21 December 
Gelatin silver print / Inkjet print 
5 x 7 in / 8 x 10 in 
Decaneas Archive 
Courtesy of the Decaneas Archive 
  
39 
  
LL/30421
ThumbnailHarry Benson 
Coretta Scott King with her children after escorting Martin Luther King Jr's body back to Atlanta 
1968 
Gelatin silver print 
16 x 20 in 
Monroe Gallery Of Photography 
40 
  
LL/30432
ThumbnailJohn Dominis 
1968 Olympics Black Power salute 
1968, 16 October 
Pigment print 
16 x 20 in 
Monroe Gallery Of Photography 
© Time Inc. 
  
41 
  
LL/37536
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer 
Liberate Our Minds - By Any Means Necessary 
1987 (copyright) 
Postcard 
Private collection of Alan Griffiths 
Publisher: TALL 
  
42 
  
LL/31441
ThumbnailUnidentified photographer/creator 
Button for Barack Obama 
2008 
Button 
2.25 in (circular) 
Private collection 
 
  
 
  
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