Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

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Behind the Lens

Photographing, Preserving, and Archiving History

The Anatomy of Documenting History

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Photographing History in the Making

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Behind the lens: Workers of the World

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Working with Analog in a Digital World

Men demonstrating outside the U.S. Capitol

Searching for Treasure Inside the Bettmann

Tupac and Flava Flav

Clarence Gatson Collection

half-length portrait of pressman Joseph Goldman placing a metal plate on AFRO's Goss press in the print room, Baltimore, Maryland, 1960.

Afro Newspaper Collection

Bettmann Archive

The Bettmann Archive

Archives in Action

Huey Newton

Behind the Lens: Panthers and the Premier

Marching Mothers - Hillsboro, Ohio

Behind the Lens: Marching Mothers

Poise and Perseverance

Behind the Lens: Poise and Perseverance

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