The Prints and Photographs Department holds more than 200,000 graphic images, including photographs, slides, postcards, broadsides, prints, negatives, and maps. These items date from the mid-1600s to the present and feature many unique items such as illustrated newspapers, drawings, sketches, daguerreotypes, tintypes, stereograph cards, and glass plate negatives. To request information and to learn more about the collections please visit: http://msrc.howard.edu
All permission to publish inquiries for photographs housed within the Manuscript Division are processed through the Prints and Photographs Department. To request information and to learn more about the collections please visit: http://msrc.howard.edu . Any photograph collections that are present on Digital Howard will not be pulled for appointments as they are readily available for viewing on our website.
Browse the Prints and Photographs Department Collections:
Associated Publishers Photograph Morgue Collection
Gordon Parks Foundation Photograph Collection
Harold Hargis Photograph Collection
Harry Bowman Black Vaudeville Collection
John Porter Photograph Collection
Newsom Family Photograph Collection
Robert Adelman Civil Rights and Black Life Photograph Collection
- Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Malcolm X
- Individuals
- Urban Scenes
- Rural Scenes
- Oversize
Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War