Click the following links for more information on the various types of collections in the Division:
Our collections are strongest in the following subject areas:
- Harlem (street scenes, churches, housing, businesses)
- Modern movements for civil rights in the United States
- Performing and visual arts
- Religion
- Military history
- Slavery
- Early photographic processes: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite
- Nineteenth-century photographic depictions of the Caribbean and South America