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Welcome to Black History Album, a photo gallery chronicling how Black America lived, loved, worked celebrated, worshipped and more, from the end of slavery in the 1860′s to the black power movement of the 1960′s. If you enjoy peering into the past, we invite you to browse our collection. If you don’t see anything of interest today, be sure to bookmark us and check back often. This site will remain a “work in progress” since we’re always discovering fabulous, vintage African American photo and historical images.
Category Archives: Youth
Shine Mister? | 1899
African American boy holding out shoe shine box. V.G. Schreck
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YWCA Camp for Girls, 1931
Twenty-one African American girls from a YWCA camp sitting in and on car, identified as a 1929 Packard Model 633 8-cylinder Rumble Seat Roadster. Caption on film edge reads, “Picnic group, Highland Beach, Md,1931.” Photography by Addison Scurlock. National Museum … Continue reading
