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#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion

It's that time of year again! Family reunions are happening all over the country. It's time for cookouts, nosy cousins, matching shirts and of course, lots and lots of group photos! We took it back (like a whole century back) and collected photos of family portraits and moments to celebrate the importance of love, belonging and community. 
By Natasha Hatendi ·
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We are Family

A large family poses for a family portrait together in front their home in Oklahoma, c.1901

#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A classic family portrait with mother, father and daughter celebrating the importance of their relationship, c.1910
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
Family poses for a portrait wearing their Sunday best outside their home c. 1915
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
Family portrait of a mother and her five children enjoying a day out with nature. c.1920
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
Portrait of family elegantly posing in their family car c.1930
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A family celebrating their relationship and closeness in their living room, c.1945
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A mother, father and daughter showing the strength of their love in their family portrait c.1965
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A mother and her four children, enjoying the warm weather on their porch in Nashville, TN, c.1969
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A family learns the value of money in the 1960s
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
Parents and their young daughter sitting in living room enjoying their favorite tv show, c.1970s
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A mother and her three children eating snow cones and enjoying the Baltimore City Fair, c.1976
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
Family dressed in their Sunday best on their way to church, Baltimore, Maryland, c.1974
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A large family enjoying the summer weather in front of their home in downtown St Louis, Missouri, c.1979
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A family teaching each other how to skate in Venice Beach, CA, c.1980
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
United States Army families enjoying time with each other, listening to music at a concert on Fort Bliss, Texas, c.1983
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A family outside their home enjoying the summer weather in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. c.1984
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A family celebrating the life of the newest member of their family, in New York City.
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
American army family celebrating their family unit and young children in Frankfurt, Germany, c.1988
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
Family watching, laughing and celebrating their love for each other at a parade in Delaware c.1993
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
It’s all love and smiles at a family reunion celebration in Washington DC c.1994
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A mother and her twin daughters are the essence of a beautiful family unit, celebrating their bond at a family reunion celebration in Washington DC, c.1994
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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We Are Family
A family of brothers and sisters stay still for a moment to capture their unique bond c. 1998.
#TBT: 22 Vintage Photos of Black Families To Get You Ready For Your Next Family Reunion
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