By Charli Penn ·
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Circa 1970
Unidentified couple circa 1970s.
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Circa 1899
Elderly African American couple posed outside of building, near Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.
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1905
Unidentified couple circa 1905.
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1912
Unidentified couple circa 1912.
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1915
Unidentified couple circa 1915.
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1915
Unidentified couple circa 1915.
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1920
Unidentified couple circa 1920.
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1923
Captioned ‘Beaulah and Lloyd McIlvain’ on April 20, 1923.
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1925
Unidentified couple circa 1925.
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1930
1930
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1930
Unidentified couple circa 1930.
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1932
Unidentified couple in Ohio circa 1932.
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1936
Nigerian musician and composer Fela Sowande (1905 – 1987) with his fiance, American soprano Mildred Marshall, in Regent’s Park, London, 13th September 1936. Sowande is working as a the pianist and Marshall is singing in the London production of Lew Leslie’s musical revue, ‘Blackbirds Of 1936’.
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1942
June 1942: An African-American couple dances, as other people clap, inside the recreation tent of the Farm security administration agricultural workers’ camp, Bridgeton, New Jersey.
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1945
Frederick C. Branch (1922 – 2005), the first African American to be commissioned in the United States Marine Corps, gets his second Lieutenant bars pinned on him by his wife Camilla ‘Peggy’ Branch, November 1945. being pinned with his second lieutenant bars by his wife, Camilla ‘Peggy’ Branch.
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Circa 1950
A student, wearing a sweater from Hampton Institute (now Hampton University), relaxes on the grounds with a lady friend, Hampton, VA, early twentieth century.
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Circa 1960
Unidentified couple circa 1960.
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Circa 1960
Unidentified couple circa 1960.
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Circa 1965
Unidentified couple circa 1965.
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Circa 1968
March 1968: Mr and Mrs Gabriel Samuel, two Nigerian students living in London, on the day of their wedding.
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Circa 1970
Unidentified couple circa 1970s.
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1970
Unidentified couple circa 1970.
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1973
Unidentified couple in a Chicago neighborhood circa 1973.
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1973
Unidentified couple in a Chicago neighborhood circa 1973.
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1978
Unidentified couple circa 1978.
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Circa 1980s
Unidentified couple in a New York circa 1980.
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1988
Unidentified couple seated atop a carved tree stump in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, New York, New York circa 1988.
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Circa 1987
Unidentified couple on a pier in Chicago, Illinois circa 1987.
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