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The following images of notable African Americans or subjects of similar interest are a sampling of the exhaustive image resources available from the Library of Congress. The Library's Prints and Photographs Division has placed more than one million of its 12.5 million photos online, and thousands of additional images are available through the Library's American Memory collections, online exhibitions and other section of the site.

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Please note: This list represents only selected digital assets available through the Library of Congress Web site. The Library's physical holdings in Washington, D.C., include more than 134 million items, including books, photos, sound recordings, films, maps and manuscripts, many of which are not available online.

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African American Photographs Assembled for the Paris Exposition of 1900	African American Leaders: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964	The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection, Selected Images
Images of African American Slavery and Freedom	Images of Twentieth Century African American Activists: A Select List	Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870
Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War: A List of Images in the Civil War Photograph Collection	Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographers	Pictorial Americana: John Brown and Harper's Ferry
Pictorial Americana: Slavery

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