Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Getty Images of African Americans from the 1960s Part 2

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WOMAN KISSING HER LOVERS CHEEK, 1960. Lambert/Hulton


Profile headshot of an African-American man and woman touching their foreheads together and smiling at each other. Lambert/Hulton archive


More Getty Images pictures from the 1960s!


Democratic National Committee woman Mrs. Dale Phillips. Photographer: Art Shay


UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Young couple reading bible. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts


UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Couple sitting on chair, woman pointing at magazine article. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts



Characters enjoying a party at Covent Garden in a scene from 'The Secret Windmill Girl' directed by Arnold Miller. Photographer: Chris Ware


UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Young woman arching eyebrows, smiling, portrait. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts


UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Boy and girl sitting at table, having cookies and milk. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts



A young African American girl sitting at an integrated lunch counter. Photographer: Donald Uhrbrock


UNITED STATES - Circa 1960s: Afro-American Mother & Daughter Looking Down Reading Book Together. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts

UNITED STATES - Circa 1960s: Group Of Grade School Children Running Down School Stairs With Books & Bags. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts

UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Portrait Of African-American Mother And Baby, Smiling And Happy. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts

UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: African-American Woman Wear Headset As Telephone Operator, Office Receptionist At Switchboard. Photographers: H. Armstrong Roberts

A West Indian lady arrives in Britain by ship, carrying her luggage.

UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Shirtless Hispanic man with afro, standing by window, smoking. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts


UNITED STATES - Circa 1960s: African-American Couple Man Woman Going Over Blueprints. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts

UNITED STATES - Circa 1960s: African-American Woman Mother Feeding Baby With Bottle Babies Women Mothers Family Families Parenting. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts


Portrait of an African-American mother and father sitting with their daughter in an armchair. The mother holds the child on her lap. Photographer: Lambert

Two Paramedics Stand by Ambulance. Photographer: Dennis Hallinan


Two Paramedics Stand by Ambulance. Photographer: Dennis Hallinan

UNITED STATES - Circa 1960s: African-American Family Man Woman 2 Children Boys Mother Father Families In Car Automobile Cars. Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts

Young Boy in Astronaut Costume with Spaceship. Photographer: Dennis Hallinan




Studio headshot portrait of an African-American woman opening her mouth in surprise while holding a telephone receiver. She also holds her hand to her face. Lambert/Hulton archive

An African-American teacher smiles over her shoulder while preparing to write with a piece of chalk on a blank chalkboard. Lamber/Hulton archive

An African-American mother smiles at her daughter as they read a children's book together. The girl sits in her mother's lap. The book is titled, 'Wonders of Nature.' Lambert/Hulton archive

Kenyan student Philip Maundu of Morehouse College, stands underneath a racially discriminate real estate sign. Photographer: Ted Russell



An African-American family gather in church for the Sunday service, 1966. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Getty Images)

A young African-American secretary types up the notes on her steno-pad, 1965. (Photo by Lambert/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


Mother holding sleeping baby. Photographer: Constance Bannister


Mother holding sleeping baby. Photographer: Constance Bannister


NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 1965: John Sims, an African American amateur weatherman, tending to his backyard weather station. (Photo by Ted Russell/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES - 1966: Children adopted by single parents from Los Angeles County Bureau of Adoptions, Mrs. Ruby Carnes abopted boy on right. (Photo by Bill Ray/Life Magazine/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

COUPLE AND DAUGHTER WATCH A BASEBALL. Photo: Lambert/Hulton


I've got a vintage Black brides post coming up soon. The traffic tracker I have on this blog is really handy! Apparently, a lot of people are finding my blog while searching for vintage bridal photos and gown styles. I'll do what I can to cater to my readers.

And of course, wedding photos are aspirational. If I ever get married, I'm definitely going down the aisle in a 1950s silhouette.

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10 comments:

  1. Hello Rebecca. Thank you for letting me know about your blog. I love it. Wow. This is incredible. This is such a fantastic idea. Definitely something that needed to be done. I can't wait to check it out more. I'm also interested to see what you post in the future. Good luck with it. You've done a wonderful job so far. Take care. Have a great weekend.

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  2. another great crop of photos. i love the woman with the phone. now i finally have an idea of what mod makeup looks on brown skin [cant pull off all those shades like twiggy can]. and the man with a fro? perfect.

    im planning a vintage wedding in my head, too! just need a groom.

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  3. d.funkt: You're going to LOVE these vintage wedding posts I have coming up...

    And Keith: Thank you so much for checking out the blog!

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  4. Thank you for posting these.
    @kismet4

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  5. I Love Black Men. They are very muscular and i love nothing more to be held by the big black strong arms of a man with negro desent. I also enjoy giving my cat massages. :)

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  6. I love these pictures, I wish our community was like this again, when we loved and respected each other and Black men actually loved and married Black women.

    None of the bullshit of today except for the fact that there was so much racism in those days that it was necessary to stick together.

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  7. The pictures on your site are amazing and very inspirational ... I'm a designer looking for vintage African American women photos I can use as inspiration without copyright infringements ... are there any sites or places you could suggest ... any info would be helpful ... Thanks

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  8. Lovely record of black lives. Thanks for posting.

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