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.
The university will be closed for winter break from Wednesday, December 17, through Thursday, December 1, 2026. Invoices that have been issued will be processed to completion by COB Friday, December 12, provided payment arrangements have been scheduled.
Requests where invoices have not been issued will receive follow-up in the New Year. Requests received after December 1 will be reviewed and processed to completion in the New Year.
Permission forms and requests will only be processed via the submission page.
Thank you for your kind understanding and cooperation.
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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