Document digitized by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2000, as part of GALILEO.This is a photograph of four smiling African American children standing in front of a well-built wooden cabin near a grove of pine trees. Two young boys stand in front of an older girl holding a younger child. All the children appear to be wearing lace-up shoes // 1872/1898
Photograph of a crowd of African American children in front of a wood house in or near Richmond County, Georgia, late 19th century
Five slaves are pictured at Turnwold Plantation, the Eatonton estate of Joseph Addison Turner. Writer Joel Chandler Harris, who lived at Turnwold during the Civil War, drew upon his experiences there to write his Uncle Remus tales, as well as his autobiographical novel On the Plantation. Photograph of five slaves from the Turnwold Plantation in Eatonton, Georgia. Four men and one woman stand outdoors in a row, facing forward. They are dressed in ragged clothes, and the man and woman on the far left hold canes. Turnwold Plantation was owned by Joseph Addison Turner. Several Turnwold Plantation slaves became models for Uncle Remus, Aunt Tempy, and other figures in the African American animal tales immortalized by Georgia author Joel Chandler Harris.
Photograph of Eva Thomas (far left), a public school teacher, leading a story hour program for children in 1944, outside the Auburn Branch of the Carnegie Library of Atlanta, Georgia. The children sit on the ground, and Thomas sits in a wooden chair and faces the children. The story hour was a collaborative project between the Atlanta Public Library and the Atlanta Board of Education.
Knox Institute (African-American school). Box 1, Folder 1, David Lewis Earnest photographic collection, circa 1900-1950s. MS 1590. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
Image showing a group of sixteen African American schoolchildren pictured in Liberty County, Georgia, circa 1890. A teacher stands on the left. They pose outside the school building.The Freedmen's Bureau established numerous schools in Georgia from 1865 to 1870, and local education societies continued to administer the schools after the bureau's closure.
Howard Orphanage and Industrial School children learning how to make and repair shoes. 1898
A family, pictured in the 1880s, stands outside old slave quarters on St. Catherines Island. The island served as the headquarters for Tunis Campbell, an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau who was assigned to supervise land claims and resettlement on five Georgia islands after the Civil War.
Uncle Doug Ambrose, a 97 year old former slave, poses with a group of children. Florida -- 1938-12-24
"Aunt" Laura Howard, an ex-slave in Mobile, Alabama. Howard was 85 years old at the time of this photograph. She lived at 355 Morgan Street.
Samuel Harper and wife, of Windsor, Ontario, the two survivors of the company of slaves abducted by John Brown from Missouri in the winter of 1858-1859
Photograph of Charles Green, an ex-slave who lived at 231 Buxton Avenue in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, District 1.
This is a photograph of David Wellom, an ex-slave who lived at 220 Fair Street in Springfield, Ohio, sitting on a chair in the middle of a garden. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers.
Photograph of Angeline Lester, an ex-slave who lived at 836 West Federal Street in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, District 5. The photo is from the African American Small Picture Collection, SC 1495. The photographs were taken by staff of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression. On April 1, 1937, the FWP received formal approval and instructions to conduct interviews of surviving ex-slaves in Ohio.
This is a photograph of Top and Susan Hawkins, two ex-slaves who lived at 809 Sebert Street in Springfield, Ohio, standing in front of their home.
Photograph of Virginia Washington, an ex-slave who lived at 913 West State Street in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, District 6.
