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Call number
Sc Photo Slavery
Physical description
691 items (1.87 cu. ft., 6 boxes). 254 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller. 274 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. and smaller. 48 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 50 x 31 cm. and smaller. 3 photographic prints : col ; 21 x 26 cm. and smaller. 72 photomechanical prints : b&w, some halftone ; 36 x 28 cm. and smaller. 38 stats : b&w ; 34 x 22 cm. and smaller. 2 engravings : b&w ; 28 x 22 cm
Preferred Citation
Slavery [graphic], Photographs and Prints Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
Repository
Photographs and Prints Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Access to materials
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The collection depicts the enslavement of persons of African descent, primarily in the United States, from the early 1800s to the mid-1860s. The collection consists mainly of photographic reproductions of illustrations, paintings, photographs, documents, artifacts and printed texts, drawn from original sources in the Schomburg Center, and from the Milton Meltzer research collection. Also includes plates from various publications. Included are images depicting the slave trade, including the Middle Passage and slave auctions; slave labor; portraits of abolitionists and political figures; and activities pertaining to the anti-slavery movement.

Using the collection

Location

Photographs and Prints Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Photographs and Prints Division Reading Room

Conditions Governing Use

Some items restricted; permission of the copyright holder or other rights holder is required for duplication