November 4th, 2012
blackhistoryalbum: BLACK MADONNA African American mother and her two children. Louisiana State University Libraries, Special Collections, undated.

blackhistoryalbum:

BLACK MADONNA

African American mother and her two children. Louisiana State University Libraries, Special Collections, undated.

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October 31st, 2012
Si j’avais su by Laurence Demaison

Si j’avais su by Laurence Demaison

(via frenchtwist)

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October 29th, 2012
thats-the-way-it-was: Halloween 1960 - Photo: George Silk//Time Life Pictures/Getty

thats-the-way-it-was:

Halloween 1960 - Photo: George Silk//Time Life Pictures/Getty

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October 29th, 2012
(via Historic photos: The ghosts of Halloween past) … children of New York’s Little Italy who were guests at the Annual Halloween Party sponsored by the Children’s Aid Society in New York, Oct. 25, 1939. children of New York’s Little Italy who were guests at the Annual Halloween Party sponsored by the Children’s Aid Society in New York, Oct. 25, 1939.

(via Historic photos: The ghosts of Halloween past)

… children of New York’s Little Italy who were guests at the Annual Halloween Party sponsored by the Children’s Aid Society in New York, Oct. 25, 1939. children of New York’s Little Italy who were guests at the Annual Halloween Party sponsored by the Children’s Aid Society in New York, Oct. 25, 1939.

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October 21st, 2012
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a young boy with a hat and his long hair in ringlets] via Be-Hold, Fine Photographs

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a young boy with a hat and his long hair in ringlets]

via Be-Hold, Fine Photographs

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October 16th, 2012
blackhistoryalbum: A group of African American children posing on sliding board ladder at playground on Kennard Field with Terrace Village housing, c. 1949. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. “Teenie Harris photographed for the Pittsburgh Courier for almost 40 years, documenting life in the African-American community. His approximately 70,000 negatives, recently acquired by the museum, form one of the richest-known archives of Black life in an American city from the 1930s to the 1970s.”  ——- Carnegie Museum of Art

blackhistoryalbum:

A group of African American children posing on sliding board ladder at playground on Kennard Field with Terrace Village housing, c. 1949. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Teenie Harris photographed for the Pittsburgh Courier for almost 40 years, documenting life in the African-American community. His approximately 70,000 negatives, recently acquired by the museum, form one of the richest-known archives of Black life in an American city from the 1930s to the 1970s.”  ——- Carnegie Museum of Art

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October 5th, 2012
greeneyes55: Photo: Rene Burri 1957

greeneyes55:

Photo: Rene Burri 1957

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September 30th, 2012
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a small child with a shot gun and a dead rabbit], George W. Valleau via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a small child with a shot gun and a dead rabbit], George W. Valleau

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

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September 9th, 2012
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. — ― Margaret Mead (via sheisfromindia)

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August 28th, 2012
tuesday-johnson: ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of “Baby Belmont” in costume with opera glasses], Thomas Houseworth via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of “Baby Belmont” in costume with opera glasses], Thomas Houseworth

via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection

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