Vintage Black Beauties

Vintage Black Beauties

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.

Women, Unidentified 6, Undated
Archival Photographic Files, apf4-01571, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Women, Unidentified 6, Undated

Archival Photographic Files, apf4-01571, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

waheedpix:

Portrait of a young woman w/clutch
1890’s
©WaheedPhotoArchive, 2012

waheedpix:

Portrait of a young woman w/clutch

1890’s

©WaheedPhotoArchive, 2012

auntada:

Howard University Women’s Athletic Day, Nov. 1949.
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), photographers.
Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

auntada:

Howard University Women’s Athletic Day, Nov. 1949.

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), photographers.

Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

waheedpix:

Headed to Town
North Carolina, 1956
[Mabel’s Album]
©WaheedPhotoArchive, 2012

waheedpix:

Headed to Town

North Carolina, 1956

[Mabel’s Album]

©WaheedPhotoArchive, 2012

Congregation outside Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, July 22, 1934

Congregation outside Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, July 22, 1934

O.W. Green, ex-slave, Del Rio, between 1937 and ca. 1938

O.W. Green, ex-slave, Del Rio, between 1937 and ca. 1938

Mary Armstrong, ex-slave, Houston, 1937 Aug. 9

Mary Armstrong, ex-slave, Houston, 1937 Aug. 9

Patsy Moses, ex-slave, Waco, 1937 Nov. 15.

Patsy Moses, ex-slave, Waco, 1937 Nov. 15.

holdthisphoto:

Apex Beauty School, 1947
by Scurlock Studio
holdthisphoto:

Apex Beauty School, 1947
by Scurlock Studio

holdthisphoto:

Apex Beauty School, 1947

  • by Scurlock Studio
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Argentine Dancers at Howard University, 1963
by Scurlock Studio

holdthisphoto:

Argentine Dancers at Howard University, 1963

  • by Scurlock Studio