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  African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition The Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900) devoted a building to matters of "social economy." The United States section of the building featured an exhibit that, according to W. E. B. Du Bois, attempted to show "(a) The history of the American Negro. (b) His present condition. (c) His education. (d) His literature." 1 Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway, who...

  • Contributor: Du Bois, W. E. (William Edward Burghardt) - Calloway, Thomas J. - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Date: 1899

  Collection Items: View 557 Items

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  Tuskegee Institute, and its industries 1 photographic print. | 15 views of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, showing activities of students, including cabinet making, sewing, and millinery.

  • Date: 1900

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  [Chemistry laboratory at Howard University, Washington, D.C.] 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1900

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  Practice school teachers at Howard University, Washington, D.C. 1 photographic print. | Twelve African-American men and women posed outside.

  • Date: 1900

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  Law graduating class at Howard University, Washington, D.C. 1 photographic print : mounted on layered paper ; photo 26.2 x 33.4 cm, mount 35.6 x 45.7 cm. | Sixteen African-American law students standing on steps of building, wearing formal attire, some holding top hats.

  • Date: 1900

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - main building, exterior 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1900

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  [Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - sewing class] 1 photographic print.

  • Contributor: Du Bois, W. E. (William Edward Burghardt)
  • Date: 1900

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - Law library 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1900

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  Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - class in carpentry shop 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1900

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  Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - class picture 1 photographic print. | Seven males - print rev.

  • Date: 1900

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - elementary school students exercise 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1900

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - class in bacteriology laboratory 1 photographic print.

  • Contributor: Du Bois, W. E. (William Edward Burghardt)
  • Date: 1900

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  Practice school at Howard Univ., Wash., D.C 1 photographic print. | African American and Asian children, ages 6-10, doing calisthenics outside school building.

  • Date: 1899

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  Pharmaceutical laboratory at Howard University, Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1900

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  Dentistry at Howard University, Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 1 photographic print.

  • Contributor: Du Bois, W. E. (William Edward Burghardt)
  • Date: 1900

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  [Leigh Street Pharmacy, Richmond, Va.] 1 photographic print. | Group of blacks outside drugstore.

  • Date: 1899

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  [Richmond Steam Laundry, Richmond Virginia] 1 photographic print. | Two horse-drawn wagons and group of black people in front of laundry.

  • Date: 1899

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  [S.J. Gilpin shoe store, Richmond, Virginia] 1 photographic print. | Mail carrier and six other men posed standing at entrance to shop.

  • Date: 1899

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  [Composing room of the Planet newspaper, Richmond, Virginia] 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1899

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  [Press room of the Planet newspaper, Richmond, Virginia] 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1899

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  [People posed on porch of and in the Planet newspaper publishing house, Richmond, Virginia] 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1899

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  [E.J. Crane, watchmaker and jewelry store with man working in window and man standing in doorway, Richmond, Virginia] 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1899

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  [African American women and men posed by machinery, Lexington Laundry, Richmond, Virginia] 1 photographic print.

  • Date: 1899

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  Sewing 1 photographic print. | Young women sewing with machines and by hand in the sewing class at the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Greensboro, N.C.

  • Date: 1899

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  Photo, Print, Drawing

  Cutting and fitting 1 photographic print. | Young women cutting and fitting clothing in class at Agricultural and Mechanical College, Greensboro, N.C.

  • Date: 1900