Prints & Photographs Department

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.

Thank you for contacting the Prints and Photographs Department:

The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center is committed to providing exemplary customer service across all divisions. This requires adequate staffing and the implementation of best practices according to industry standard. As such, the center has temporarily suspended public service in the Prints and Photographs Department. It is anticipated that service will be reinstated by the end of the 2025 spring semester. 

Permissions requests that were received on or before 8/20/24 will be processed to completion.

Please consult the P&P dropdown on the MSRC website for any updates regarding the reinstatement of services.

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to working with you soon.

To view our finding aids, guides, and digital collections, please visit Digital Howard

INQURIES

For all general inquiries and research questions about permissions and Prints and Photographs Collections please email msrcpermissions@howard.edu.

If you would like to submit a MSRC Permission to Publish Form, please visit our online submission page.

Photograph Description:

 From the Robert Adelman Civil Rights and Black Life Photograph Collection. Image ID: P101-C-003-038_020.

Harlem Rally, August 1963: Large group of men and women leaning on a wooden barrier that says, "Do Not Cross."

 

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