The bust is a masterpiece of mid-19th-century French ... The Image of the Black Archive & Library resides at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

The Library of Congress recently digitized rare 19th-century photographs of African American women active in suffrage, civil rights, temperance, education, reform, and journalism. by Allison Meier ...

Rare African American family photo albums give glimpse of 19th century Albany Historical treasure found in University of Michigan collection By Keshia Clukey Updated July 27, 2015 3:37 p.m.

NEW HAVEN -- The most photographed American of the 19th century wasn't a bearded guy in a stovepipe hat. It wasn't a president, an inventor, a captain of industry, a general or a crusty gent ...

African Americans’ engagement with photography in the 19th century began a tradition for Black photographers’ use of photography today to promote social change.

By offering distinguished images of Black Americans in the 19th century, the Drapkin holdings “complement the West collection without repeating it,” says John Jacob.

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

Mississippi State’s School of Architecture is hosting a “Mississippi African American Churches, 19th Century to 1920” exhibition through Sept. 27 on the Starkville campus. Featured photos include this ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Lafayette pioneer community offered its small African American population unskilled work as cooks, whitewashers and laborers. Enterprising individuals, however, thwarted ...

In a sign of museums’ surging interest in African-American artistry, a second show of a 19th-century black potter’s work opened this winter at the New-York Historical Society. It is the first ...