Visual Sources

Visual materials, i.e., drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, films, videos, etc. are to be found in many Harvard libraries. Records for many, but by no means all, individual Harvard University Library images are available in VIA, an online catalog of images. Records include subjects and a thumbnail image.

Images

Unseen : unpublished black history from the New York Times Photo Archives, by Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy, Damien Cave and Rachel L. Swarns. New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2017, 308 pages
HOLLIS Record

Resources for African American Research: National Archives

Umbra Search: African American History

Ross Archive of African Images

Digital Library on American Slavery
--Race and Slavery Petitions Project
--NC Runaway Slave Advertisements
--Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
--Slave Deeds of North Carolina
--Slavery Era Insurance Registries

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War: A List of Images in the Civil War Photograph Collection

Africa and the African Diaspora Search box under Filter

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

Google Books Advanced Book Search -  Content: Magazines, put magazine title in Return books with the title field.
--The Crisis, 1910-2000,
--Ebony, 1959-2008
--Freedomways, 1961-1985,
--JET, 1951-2005, 

The Atlantic slave trade and slave life in the Americas: A visual record

NYPL Digital Gallery offers over 700,000 images from the New York Public Library.