Religious Folk Songs of the Negro
R. Nathaniel Dett Hampton: Institute Press, 1909

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https://www.loc.gov/item/2010647787/
Slave quarters on a plantation, Port Royal, South Carolina
O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer

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Slave Songs of the United States
McKim-Garrison, Allen, Ware NY: A Simpson & Co 1867

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https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b08764/
African American man, seated, holding violin
Ulmann, Doris, 1882-1934, photographer – 1930
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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https://www.loc.gov/item/2007660097/
Bill Tatnall, sitting, playing guitar, Frederica, Georgia
Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002, photographer ca. 1935 June.
Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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https://www.loc.gov/resource/var.1727/
Primrose & West's Big Minstrels
Cinti ; N.Y. : Strobridge Lith. Co., c1895.
Minstrel poster collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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https://www.loc.gov/item/2018666564/

[Brandy Station, Va. Dinner party outside tent, Army of the Potomac headquarters]
Civil war photographs, 1861-1865
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://www.loc.gov/resource/stereo.1s04463/
View on Smith Plantation, near Beaufort, S.C.
Photographed by E.W. Sinclair, for Sam. A. Cooley, photographer Tenth Army Corps.
ca. btw 18626-1864
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwpb.00755/

Beaufort, S.C. Gen. Isaac I. Stevens (seated) and staff on porch of a house
O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer
Civil war photographs, 1861-1865
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
 

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018670580/
Beaufort, South Carolina. Group of negroes on J.J. Smith's plantation
O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer
Civil war photographs, 1861-1865
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Anti-Slavery_Society.gif
Twenty-ninth anniversary of the American Anti-slavery Society, Tuesday, May 12, 1863. Phair & Co.'s Steam Print, 11 Frankfort St. (near City Hall) N. Y.
Pub: Phair & Co.'s Steam Print

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https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.19705/
Slave market of America
Dorr, William S.- American Anti-Slavery Society.
Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://www.loc.gov/item/2012648060/
Cotton field, Retreat Plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C.
Photographed by Hubbard & Mix, Beaufort, S.C. ca. 1860s
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://www.loc.gov/resource/stereo.1s03859/
School marms and African American children
Cooley, Sam A. (Samuel A.), photographer ca. 1862
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://www.loc.gov/item/2013648995/
Freed slave children with their teachers
Hubbard & Mix, photographer – ca. 1862
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Francis_Allen.png
William Francis Allen Ca 1865

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https://www.loc.gov/item/2018666868/
[Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gin on Smith's plantation]
O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer
Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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Charles P Ware - Photo
Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives

Howard University, Washington DC

https://www.loc.gov/item/2011648603/
Group of old folks at home, "Old Fort" plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C.
Photographed by Hubbard & Mix, Beaufort, S.O. [i.e. S.C.] ca. btw 1860-1870
Chase, Cornelius, 1780-1868. Cornelius Chase family papers.

Lucy McKim Garrison – Photo
Studio portrait, profile, wearing white ruffled collar
Rockwood photographer studio
Garrison Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts)

https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwpb.03290/
Beaufort, Port Royal Island, South Carolina. Live oak avenue Robert B. Rhett's plantation
Created 1865
Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

https://www.loc.gov/resource/stereo.1s03956/
Negro quarters, T.J. Fripp plantation, St. Helena Island (near Beaufort), S.C.
Hubbard & Mix, photographer ca. btw 1863-1866
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

 

Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine,
vol. 47, January 1891.

Nine Love Songs and a Carol
Kate Douglas Wiggin
NY: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1896

 

W.C. Handy Mural – Tutwiler MS
Photo: L. Alan Reitano – 2015

ARTIST PHOTOS

 

B B King

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BBKingNY.jpg
B.B. King performing in New York in the late 1980s.
Author: Ronzoni

 

John Lee Hooker

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Lee_Hooker_two.jpg
Massey Hall, Toronto, Aug. 20, 1978
20 February 2005, 17:39:54
Photo by Jean-Luc Ourlin

Miles Davis

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miles_Davis_-_1986.jpg
Miles Davis, Den Haag, 1986
12 July 1985
Photo by: Rvb

Ella Fitzgerald

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ella_Fitzgerald_1968.jpg
Ella Fitzgerald in 1968
Courtesy the Fraser MacPherson estate c/o Guy MacPherson

Bo Diddley

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bo-Diddley.jpg
Japan tour with Japanese band Bo Gumbos
6 December 2006
Photo By: Masao Nakagami

 

Ruth Brown

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruth_Brown_cropped.jpg
Ruth Brown performing in 2005.
10 September 2005, 10:07
Source: farewell to ruth brown
Photo By: caviera

Chuck Berry
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chuck_Berry_1957.jpg
Publicity photo of Chuck Berry
Universal Attractions (management)
PD-PRE1978.

Little Richard
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_Richard_1957_(cropped).JPG
Trading card photo of Little Richard In 1957, Topps gum cards issued a series of movie stars, television stars and recording stars. He was part of their recording stars cards.
TGC-Topps Gum Cards
copyright not renewed

DJ Grandmaster Flash

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dj_Grandmaster_Flash-01-mika.jpg
Flash at the wheels of steel
9 March 1999
Photo By: Mika-photography

Snoop Dog & Dr. Dre

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snoop_Dogg_and_Dr._Dre.jpg
Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, Coachella 2012, Day three, Sunday,
April 22, 2012
Photo By: Jason Persse from Brooklyn, USA

Rise Up Shepherd and Foller
The Southern Workman,
vol. 31, no. 2 (February 1902), p. 122.

 

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