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
LeDroit Park Photograph Collection
- Amiri Baraka Papers
- Arthur B. Spingarn Papers
- Art Carter Papers
- Albert Cassell Papers
- Archibald H. Grimke Papers
- Anna J. Cooper Papers
- Alain Locke Papers
- Arthur P. Davis Papers
- Angelina Weld Grimke Collection
- The Bethel Literary and Historical Association Records
- Blackburn Family Papers
- Benjamin Mays Papers
- Bustill-Bowser-Asbury Collection
- Crystal Byrd Faust Papers
- Campbell C. Johnson Papers
- C. Glenn Carrington Papers
- Charles Hamilton Houston Papers
- Charles I. West Papers
- Cook Family Papers
- Carl R. Gross Papers
- Cato W. Adams Collection
- Daniel A. Murray Papers
- Dantes Bellegarde Collection
- Daniel Hale Williams Papers
- E. B. Henderson Papers
- Eugene C. Davidson Collection
- Ernest Everett Just Papers
- Eva B. Dykes Papers
- Frederick Douglass Collection
- Francis J. Grimke Papers
- Griffith Davis Photograph Collection
- Georgia Douglas Johnson Papers
- George E.C. Hayes Papers
- Gregoria Fraser Goins Papers
- Gregory Swanson Papers
- H. Council Trenholm Papers
- Hazel Harrison Collection
- Howard H. Mackey Sr. Papers
- Henry McNeal Turner Papers
- Illustrated Newspapers Collection
- Isabelle Spiller Papers
- J. E. Matzeliger Collection
- Jesse E. Moorland Papers
- James Guy Tyson Papers
- John Mercer Cook Papers
- Judge Julius Waties Waring Papers
- Kelly Miller Collection
- Lena Edwards Papers
- Lois Mailou Jones Papers
- Leigh R. Whipper Papers
- Louia Vaughn Jones Collection
- Marian Anderson – D.A.R. Controversy Collection
- Metropolitan AME Church Collection
- Mabel Keaton Staupers Papers
- Mary O.H. Williamson Collection of Colored Celebrities Here and There
- Maryrose Reeves Allen Papers
- Ophelia Egypt Papers
- Oliver Otis Howard Collection
- Personalities Collection
- Rayford Logan Papers
- Rose McClendon Memorial Collection of Photographs of Celebrated Negroes by Carl Van Vechten
- Thomas Montgomery Gregory Papers
- Thomas and William Dorsey Papers
- Thomas W. Turner Papers
- Washington Conservatory of Music 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