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National Archives: African American Heritage Collection

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National Archives: African American Heritage

Rights Statement

This site offers access to records created or received by the Federal Government’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches. These records, spanning from pre-federal times to today, include textual documents, microfilm, maps and charts, architectural and engineering plans, aerial photographs, motion picture reels, video recordings, sound recordings, computer data sets, and still images. The African American Heritage Collection at the National Archives documents the experiences of Blacks in America through a comprehensive collection of images, records, and videos that cover African American slavery and the international slave trade, the Black Power Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, The Great Migration, Voting Rights history, and African Americans in WWI.

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NY Public Library: The Jean Blackwell Hutson Photographs

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NY Public Library: The Jean Blackwell Hutson Photographs

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This collection provides insight into the thirty-plus-year career of Jean Blackwell Hutson, a librarian and curator of the Schomburg Collection, and the Chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 1948 to 1980. The collection includes images from family and professional life, such as her early years with her parents, her wedding album, her high school or college years album, a scrapbook, newspaper articles, telegrams, and personal notes. The collection also includes photographs taken by Hutson during her travels.

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Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration

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Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration

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This collection of photographs from the Farm Security Administration’s Office of War Information Photograph Collection includes extensive black-and-white prints, as well as black-and-white and color film negatives and transparencies. The collection covers American life between 1935 and 1944 and represents three stages. The first captures the initial documentation of cash loans made to individual farmers by the Resettlement Administration, as well as the construction of planned suburban communities. The second captures the lives of sharecroppers in the South and migratory agricultural workers in the Midwestern and Western states. The final stage documents both rural and urban conditions across the United States and World War II mobilization efforts. Various photographers, including Gordon Parks, whose collection documents early American Negro life and culture.

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Prelinger Archives

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Prelinger Archives

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This collection features approximately 20,000 digitized films from 1903 to 2024, including home movies, amateur and industrial films, and print materials of historic significance. The collection includes films produced by US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade groups, educational institutions, and community groups. The collection consists of 1930s films created by the Works Progress Administration documenting African American life during the Depression and during World War II, and the Newhouser Family collection documenting Black history, culture, and ceremonies from the 1930s and 1940s in the Midwest. The collection also includes interviews with Black Panther leaders.

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NASA Commons site on Flickr

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NASA Commons Site on Flickr

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This collection includes the National Air and Space Administration’s vast collection of photographs, historic film, and video on space exploration compiled from the NASA Image and Video Library and other archived sources. Images and video include NASA spacecraft, rocket launches, moonwalks, deep-space imagery, the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA pilots, lunar probes, major and dwarf planets, space probes, and cultural heritage month tributes, including the contributions of Blacks to NASA.

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J Paul Getty Museum

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J Paul Getty Museum

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This collection offers access to digitized images, videos, and audio from various archives, including artist, photography, architecture, and scholar collections. It includes a wide range of digitized art history texts and journals, as well as a photo archive of 2 million images spanning from antiquity to the modern period. Full-text articles, photographs, e-books, and periodicals are available from several sources, including the HathiTrust Digital Library, The New York Times (1851-2003),  the Los Angeles Times (1881-1990), and the International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP). In addition, collections specific to Black life and culture include the African American Art History Initiative and the Lee Kaplan African American Visual Culture Collection.