National Park Service

Ken Goldstein

John H. White. Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)

James Brown (Singer) ~ Photo by Flickr User David Washington, DC

Philip Hollis

James J. Kriegsmann, Library of Congress

Photo credit: alan Light, 1990

Portrait of William Clark (1770-1838) by Charles Willson Peale, 1810

University of Oslo

Photo by wpopp. Dr. John in concert, Jazz in Vienne, France, July 14, 2006

Tim Bishop

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777

Public domain (Wikipedia)

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-36754)

Gage Skidmore

1917 sheet music (courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)

John Burlinson

Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116612 DLC

Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942. (Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC

Photographed by Gabriella Muttone

Mahalia Jackson, 1962. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-109778)

Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Library of Congress

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007

Gladys Knight and the Pips perform aboard the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (Wikimedia Commons)

Courtesy of Columbia University.

Library of Congress Reading Room, Jefferson Building (photo by Mark Pellegrini)

Alan Lomax playing guitar on stage at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-00433) (cropped)

Thomas Lawrence (ca. 1800), in National Gallery of Canada. Portrait is of explorer Alexander Mackenzie, not occult writer Alexander Mackenzie.

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)

Wikipedia (U.S. Congressional Portrait)

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008

Jessica Norman

Courtesy of Columbia University.

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Navy Portrait)

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)

Charles W. Sawyer (1887-1979) U.S. Dept. of Commerce

Source http://flickr.com/photos/stutefish/399607994/ Date February 22, 2007 Author Lori Matsumoto ("stutefish" on flickr)

Image © ÖNB/Wien

From: TWENTIETH CENTURY NEGRO LITERATURE OR A CYCLOPEDIA OF THOUGHT ON THE VITAL TOPICS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO. 1902.

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

Photo by Joe Mabel (Wikimedia Commons)

Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons

1911 photograph (cropped)
Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery
(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Craig O'Neal. Nov. 14, 2007

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikipedia)