AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN THE KOREAN WAR

Thirty-three photos documenting a mixed-race unit of U.S. soldiers, including many African Americans, on the front lines of the Korean War.  The Korean War (1950–53) was the first overseas war following President Harry Truman’s 1948 Executive Order desegregating the U.S. military. Some 600,000 African Americans served, and nearly ten percent.....

ZULUS TAKE NEW YORK BY STORM

A scarce Eisenmann carte-de-visite photograph showing a Zulu woman and child and capitalizing on American fascination with Zulus following the death of Prince Napoleon and capture of King Cetshwayo in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. This photograph shows a young woman wearing beads and a knee-length, belted fur dress. One.....

HARVARD BASEBALL TEAM PHOTO, 1904,
FEATURING GROUNDBREAKING BLACK STAR
WILLIAM CLARENCE MATTHEWS

A rare original photograph of Harvard University’s 1904 baseball team, featuring pathbreaking star shortstop William Clarence Matthews, who broke the color barrier in professional baseball and went on to work in Washington, D.C. as one of the first African American Assistant Attorneys General. Seated second to the left in the.....

PANORAMIC IMAGE OF A BLACK NAVY COMPANY
AT THE NAVAL TRAINING STATION
GREAT LAKES IN ILLINOIS, 1944

A striking World War II-era photograph showing some 144 African American Navy servicemen of Company 401 at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station on Lake Michigan in Illinois. The company is shown here standing in front of a building bearing the number 1608, and in the front row is a......