August Sander

 Church of St. Ursula in Cologne from the southeast, 1945-46

  

 Circus workers, 1926-32

  

 Cologne, the Cathedral

  

Farm children, 1920

  

 Forester's child, 1931

  

 Fraternity students, 1921

  

 Gewandhaus Quartet, 1921

  

 Grocer and hardware dealer, ca. 1929

  

 Handicapped man

  

 Landscape near Heisterback, 1935

  

 Loop at the Rhine near Boppard, 1936

  

 Man with a pipe

  

My Wife in Joy and Sorrow, 1911

Addison Scurlock

Addison Scurlock (1883-1964) was a respected African-American photographer with a thriving practice documenting the lives of black Americans for decades.  Among other duties, he was the official photographer at Howard University. More about him here.

 Charles Drew teaching interns and residents during rounds at Freedmen's Hospital, ca. 1947

   

 Children's Department, School of Music, Howard University, 1929

  

 Children's Hallowe'en party, YMCA, ca. 1940s

  

 Crystal Caverns, 1932

  

 Debutantes line up with escorts and sponsors at annual Bachelor-Benedict Presentation Ball, 1947

  [I confess I did not know there were black debutantes]

  

 Dining car cooks, 1949

 

 Dr. and Mrs. E.C. Smith, 1940s

 

 Early civil rights group picket, 1947

[because it's true..."Gone with the Wind" is a shameless apologia for slavery, 

though this is much more apparent in the book than in the movie]

  

 Effie Moore with a group of vaudeville dancers

  

 Four young women standing by a convertible, ca. 1958

  

Howard University soccer team pictured in 1930

China 1920s-1940s

This is a collection of photographs taken in China by YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) missionaries in the 1920s-1940s. Interesting slices of life from pre-modern China. (About the collection)

 A Chinese classroom

 

 A well

  

 Beggar

  

 Beggars

  

 Buying candy

  

 Camels

  

 Club girls

  

 Day school

  

 Fruit stand

  

 Funeral

  

 Girl of 7 years working, with baby on back

  

Hats

  

 Hotel

  

Kindergarten

James Edward Westcott

Mr. Westcott was allowed to photograph work at one portion of America's "Manhattan Project," the highly secret World War II endeavor to create an atomic bomb. These were all taken at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

 A billboard in Oak Ridge, photographed during WWII, on January 21, 1944

  

 A billboard posted in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on December 31, 1943

  

 A caultron "racetrack" uranium refinery at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 

during the Manhattan Project. The light-colored bars along the top are solid silver.

  

 A Link Trainer, a type of flight simulator produced between the early 1930s 

and early 1950s, in Oak Ridge, in September of 1945

  

 A young entrepreneur during the days of the Manhattan Project, in Oak Ridge, Tennesee

  

 Calutron operators at their panels, in the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 

during World War II. The calutrons were used to refine uranium ore into fissile material.

  

 Early Construction of the K-25 uranium enrichment facility (background), 

with one of original houses of Oak Ridge, Tennessee in the foreground, in 1942

  

 Tulip Town Market, Grove Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1945

  

 Kiddy Club at the Midtown Recreation Hall in Oak Ridge, on January 6, 1945

  

 Lie detection tests were administered as part of security screening

  

 Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer at Oak Ridge, on February 14, 1946. 

Oppenheimer was called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role 

as the head of the secret weapons laboratory of the Manhattan Project

   

 Shift change at the Y-12 uranium enrichment facility in Oak Ridge. 

Notice the billboard, "Make CEW count Continue to protect project information." 

CEW stands for Clinton Engineer Works, the Army name for the production facility.

  

 The main control room at the K-25 uranium enrichment plant in Oak Ridge

  

 This 1945 photograph shows the giant 44 acre K-25 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the uranium for the first atomic weapon was produced.

  

 Welding at the K-25 facility in Oak Ridge, in February of 1945. At the height of 

production, nearly 100,000 workers were employed by the government in the secret city.

  

Workers perform maintenance on a cell housing in the K-25 

uranium enrichment facility, in Oak Ridge, Tennesee

 

V-J day celebration in Jackson Square in downtown Oak Ridge in August of 1945.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan on August 6, 1945, the news
reports revealed to the people at Oak Ridge what they had been working on all along.

 

An "Atoms For Peace" traveling exhibit in Oak Ridge, in 1957