Research Guides: ENG312: Converts, Criminals, and Fugitives: Print Cultures of the African Diaspora, 1760-1860: Primary Sources

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Black Vrchives: An Archive of Black Life
Visual narratives of modern Black life across the Diaspora.

NYPL Digital Collections
"Access to over 800,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities including manuscripts, maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, fashion plates, printed ephemera, and more."

AP Images [EBSCO] 1840+
Images from the 1840s to the present, includes graphics, maps, illustrations, and logos dating back to the 1920s.
AP Images 1840+
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