Contrasting Representations of African-Americans and African-American Culture in Late 19th and Early 20th Century America

 

19th Century Images of African-Americans

 

 

 

 

Other Frederick Douglass Iconography

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Art in the Harlem Graphic

The Art of the Ancestors By [ALAIN LOCKE]

Four Portraits of Negro Women By WINOLD REISS

Our Land, by Langston Hughes

Harlem Types Portraits by WINOLD REISS

Jazz at Home By J. A. ROGERS

Drawing by Richard Bruce in FIRE!! Magazine

Cover of Ebony and Topaz, A Collecteona (1927 Anthology of African-American writing)

 

Additional Examples of Harlem Renaissance Art

Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio,

Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance


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