Research Guides: African American Studies: Images/Media

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Black Studies in Video
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Documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of Black culture in the United States.

Africana & Black History | NYPL Digital Gallery | New York Public Library
Historical documents and photographs relating to African American history from the 16th century to the present. Items were selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience."

Artstor
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Includes the Lowentheil Collection of African-American Photographs and other photographic materials. Only images and media from the Shared Shelf Commons portion of the site can be viewed, downloaded, and shared with anyone on the open web.

Beinecke Digital Collections | Yale University Library
The Advanced Search option permits searching by genre (e.g., cabinet photographs).
DocSouth: Image Subject List for North American Slave Narratives
Browse a subject listing of digital images included in the North American Slave Narratives. The collection is also searchable.
DocSouth: Image Subject List for The Church in the Southern Black Community
Browse by subject digital images from The Church in the Southern Black Community project. A search option is also available.
Prints & Photographs Online Catalog | Library of Congress
An extensive collection of digital images of Library of Congress collections including photos taken by Gordon Parks, the Carl Van Vechten Collection including Harlem Renaissance celebrities, images from the personal papers of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, and more.
SIRIS Image Gallery | Smithsonian Institution
Includes images from the Washington, DC studio of African American photographer Addison N. Scurlock.
Wikimedia Commons
A database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.