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African American Art: Scholarly Websites

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Amistad Research Center
An independent archive, library and museum of African-American history and culture. Includes significant African-American art holdings (Aaron Douglas and AFAC Collections) of over 400 works of artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Hampton University Museum
The oldest African-American museum, located at a major historically black university. International Review of African-American Art is published here.
Museum of African-American History
Black historical and cultural museum.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
A major collection of materials related to Africa and African-Americans, including art collections, prints and photographs, film and recordings, as well as books and manuscripts.

African American Art: Scholarly Websites

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
The largest and most widely used resource dedicated to collecting and preserving the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Includes images of more than 4,000 objects in the collections and exhibitions, with artist information.
Studio Museum in Harlem
Digital Schomburg
Find exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.
Amistad Research Center
An independent archive, library and museum of African-American history and culture. Includes significant African-American art holdings (Aaron Douglas and AFAC Collections) of artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The African-American Mosaic
A sampler drawn from the Library of Congress' rich resources: books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and sound.
Hampton University Museum
The oldest African-American museum, located at a major historically black university. International Review of African-American Art (see journals list) is published here.
Museum of African-American History
The homepage of Detroit's Museum of African-American History, the world's largest Black historical and cultural museum.
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Studies
The oldest research center for the study of African Americans in the United States, located at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. See also, Image of the Black in Western Art via ARTstor.
Sonja Hayes Stone Center for Black Culture and History (UNC)
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian

African American Art: Scholarly Websites

The National Museum of African American History (opening in 2015) has many collections related to African-American photography such as the Ernest C. Withers collection. Ernest Withers (1922-2007) was an African-American photographer who worked in Memphis, TN.

National Museum of African American History

The National Archives and Records Administration

NARA holds many photographs including the U.S. Signal Corps collection.

National Archives

The Archives Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

The Archives Center holds many photographs by and of African Americans, especially the archive of Addison Scurlock.

Library of Congress

The LOC has thousands of photographs by African-American photographers. Specific collections include 4,700 NAACP photographs from 1933-1955.

Library of Congress
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The Library of Congress provides access to a variety of different collections and digital archives.
The Amistad Research Center has over 600 manuscript collections and 20,000 books dedicated to African-American history. The center is located in Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
- Amistad Research Center
  The Amistad Research Center has over 600 manuscripts and 20,000 books dedicated to African American history. The center is located Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
  
  The Schomburg Center is a major research facility holding African-American photographs, manuscripts, and culture collections. Many photographs are by African-American artists. The Schomburg Center is located in New York, NY and is affiliated with the New York Public Library.
  
  Schomburg Reserach Center Photographs and Prints Division
  
  The Moorland Spingarn Research Center is devoted to African-American culture and history and contains thousands of photographs.
  
  Moorland Spingarn Research Center