Vintage Black Beauties

Vintage Black Beauties

An archive remixing project celebrating the beauty of women of the black diaspora in vintage style because I love discovering old pictures that are new to me (and I wanted a place to save them). People don't have to be glamorous or famous to be beautiful.

Photos found on the net. Links provided. Not owned by me.

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My mom and her siblings in Miami, 1965

My mom and her siblings in Miami, 1965

Mid-century: The Gold Digger Baby Dolls, pictured in 1942; the costumes spread within decades into the city’s respectable African-American neighborhoods. The tradition is enjoying a modern resurgence

Mid-century: The Gold Digger Baby Dolls, pictured in 1942; the costumes spread within decades into the city’s respectable African-American neighborhoods. The tradition is enjoying a modern resurgence

Image Folder 34: Elizabeth White Brown: Dance Department: Scan 1 Citation [Identification of item], in the North Carolina Central University Faculty and Staff Photograph Records, 1910-2005, University Archives, Records and History Center in the James E. Shepard Memorial Library, North Carolina Central University.

Image Folder 34: Elizabeth White Brown: Dance Department: Scan 1 Citation [Identification of item], in the North Carolina Central University Faculty and Staff Photograph Records, 1910-2005, University Archives, Records and History Center in the James E. Shepard Memorial Library, North Carolina Central University.

Image Folder 18: Valeria B.Berry: Counselor and First Resident Directress in Chidley Hall Dormitory for Men: Scan 8, in the North Carolina Central University Faculty and Staff Photograph Records, 1910-2005, University Archives, Records and History Center in the James E. Shepard Memorial Library, North Carolina Central University.

Image Folder 18: Valeria B.Berry: Counselor and First Resident Directress in Chidley Hall Dormitory for Men: Scan 8, in the North Carolina Central University Faculty and Staff Photograph Records, 1910-2005, University Archives, Records and History Center in the James E. Shepard Memorial Library, North Carolina Central University.

A country divided: Stunning photographs capture the lives of ordinary Americans during segregation in the Jim Crow south

A country divided: Stunning photographs capture the lives of ordinary Americans during segregation in the Jim Crow south

Augusta Savage with one of her sculptures, ca. 1938. From the collection of the Archives of American Art

Augusta Savage with one of her sculptures, ca. 1938. From the collection of the Archives of American Art

People on street corner watching marchers Selma To Montgomery Civil Rights March, March 24-26, 1965

People on street corner watching marchers

Selma To Montgomery Civil Rights March, March 24-26, 1965

Danses de femmes Mandara
c1947, Cameroun/Cameroon

Danses de femmes Mandara

c1947, Cameroun/Cameroon

Marché de Lomé. Vendeuse de pâte à beignet
c1945-1950

Marché de Lomé. Vendeuse de pâte à beignet

c1945-1950

Photograph of Zora Smoking taken by Robert Cook, or Stetson Kennedy. Cross City, Florida. 1939.

Photograph of Zora Smoking taken by Robert Cook, or Stetson Kennedy. Cross City, Florida. 1939.