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The Way we Were

A curated selection of African American images that look back at the way we lived, worked, struggled and played. It features historical prints, Black memorabilia posters and Black history photographs. Many depict the more painful parts of our history like slavery and negative stereotypes, but most celebrate the humanity, courage, heroism, struggles and values of the generations that came before us.
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A Pastoral Visit by Richard Brooke A Pastoral Visit by Richard Brooke A Penny Short by Harry Roseland “Is you gwine hush when you spoke to, or is I bound to whup you befo' de school?”, 1897
A Pastoral Visit
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A Pastoral Visit (Black & White)
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A Penny Short
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African American Boy, Florence, SC, 1938 African American Boys Eating Watermelon and Playing Checkers, Florence, SC, 1938 African American Family at Gees Bend, 1937 African American Family, Southern Pines, NC 1914
African American Boy, Florence, SC, 1938
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African American Family at Gees Bend, 1937
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African American Family, Southern Pines, NC 1914
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Aunt Letty, New Bern, NC, 1920 Black Cowboy and Horse Boy and Car, NYC Boy in Straw Hat
Aunt Letty, New Bern, NC, 1920
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Black Cowboy and Horse
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Boy and Car, NYC, 1949
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Boy in Straw Hat
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Boy Picking Cotton, Arkansas, 1938 Boy Selling Pecans Near Alma, GA, 1937 Bus Depot, 1941 Buying Gas Near Atlanta, GA, 1939
Boy Picking Cotton, Arkansas, 1938
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Boy Selling Pecans Near Alma, GA, 1937
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Bus Depot, 1941
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Buying Gas Near Atlanta, GA, 1939
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Children Playing Golf with Clubs Made of Sticks, 1905 Children Playing, circa 1915 Christmas Morning, 1879 Coming Down the Road by Margaret Dodson
Children Playing Golf with Clubs Made of Sticks, 1905
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Children Playing, circa 1915
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Christmas Morning, 1879
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Coming Down the Road
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Conversation on Porch of Grocery Store, Jeanerette, LA, 1938 Cotton Pickers Resting, 1900 Country Store, Gordonton, NC, 1939 Don't be Mad at Me, 1900
Conversation on Porch of Grocery Store, Jeanerette, LA, 1938
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Cotton Pickers Resting, 1900
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Country Store, Gordonton, NC, 1939
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Don't be Mad at Me, 1900
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Drinking at "Colored" Water Cooler in Streetcar Terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939 Fanny Fiddler and Dancing Children, 1895 Look Down That Road by Charles Pollock
Fanny
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Fiddler and Dancing Children, 1895
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Look Down That Road
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Mississippi Delta Negro Children, 1936 Never Too Late to Learn by Alix Beaujour New Car, Richmond, VA 1938 The Cotton Pickers
Mississippi Delta Negro Children, 1936
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Never Too Late to Learn
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New Car, Richmond, VA, 1938
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The Cotton Pickers
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The Cotton Pickers by Winslow Homer View of Lenox Avenue, Harlem, at 135th Street, 1939
The Cotton Pickers
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View of Lenox Avenue, Harlem, at 135th Street, 1939
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