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:
Online submissions in the Prints and Photographs Department will resume on August 11, 2025, in conjunction with the re-opening of the Moorland Reading Room. If you have submitted a permissions form via email and have not yet received a reply, we encourage you to resubmit the form via the online submission page link on or after August 11. Requests will be reviewed in the order in which they are received.
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
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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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