African American Studies: Images

Photographs from an exhibit at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 planned by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway.

A collection of roughly 30,000 images covering many aspects of the African/Black diaspora from the 1800s onward.

The William A. Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs provides almost 350 images showing African Americans and related military and social history. The Civil War era is the primary time period covered, with scattered examples through 1945. Most of the images are photographs, including 270 cartes de visite.

Held at Emory University, the digitized collection contains about 10,000 photographs depicting African American life from as early as the 1840s through the 1970s.