Vintage Photographs of Black Americans in the late 1800's - mid 1900's

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Ma Rainey in performing in front of a crowd in 1927

 

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A couple of personal ones. My grandfather, his mother, and his sister

My grandfather and grandmother on their wedding day.

My great great grandfather

 

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When our parents and grandparents said they were in the fields since they were children - these pictures show what they meant.

This little girl is PRECIOUS! Just gorgeous.

Little girl picking cotton in the field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Young girl picking cotton in the field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Little girl standing on a patch of dirt, close to the cotton field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Young boy picking cotton in the field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Norman Lumpkin, news director for WRMA radio, talking to a young girl in the cotton field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Young boy in the cotton field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Two little boys in the back of a trailer filled with cotton, parked at the field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Woman and little girl picking cotton in the field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama.

Little boy in the cotton field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama.

 

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African American man seated on a porch with his wife and young son.
Time Period: 1900-1909 / 1910-1919

Unidentified African American man.
Time Period 1870-1879 1880-1889 1890-1899

Two unidentified African American men.
Time Period: 1870-1879 / 1880-1889

Tintype of an unidentified young African American man.
Time Period: 1880-1889

Tintype of an unidentified young African American woman.
Time Period: 1880-1889

Tintype of an unidentified African American woman.
Time Period: 1880-1889

Tintype of an unidentified African American man.
Time Period: 1880-1889

Tintype of an unidentified African American man.
Time Period: 1880-1889

African American man dressed up for the Bingville Fair in Toulminville, Alabama.
Time Period: 1890-1899 1900-1909 1910-1919

Tintype of an unidentified African American woman.
Time Period: 1880-1889

Tintype of two unidentified African American women.
Time Period: 1880-1889

Tintype of an unidentified African American man.
Time Period: 1880-1889

Tintype of an unidentified young African American woman.
Time Period: 1880-1889

 

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Unidentified African American woman.

Unidentified African American man.

Two African American women shaking hands in Selma, Alabama.
Time Period 1890-1899
1900-1909

Young African American boy, possibly Tillie Brooks of Ensley, Alabama.
The photograph was taken in Bessemer. Tintype is 2.25 x 3.25 inches and is enclosed in cardboard sleeve.
Time Period 1910-19191920-1929

Tintype of an unidentified young African American girl.
Description She is seated on a small wooden chair.
The photograph is in a paper sleeve that reads, "Greetings."
Time Period 1880-1889

Unidentified African American woman.
Time Period 1870-1879 1880-1889

Tintype of an unidentified young African American boy.
Description He is seated on a small wooden chair.
Time Period 1880-1889

Benjamin Sterling Turner.
Description Turner was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1871 to 1873. He was Alabama's first African American congressman.
Time Period 1870-1879

 

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Burke County. Rev. John Lawrence Phelps. In 1906 he founded the Boggs Academy located near Keysville. This school for African-American students is owned and operated by the National Missions of the Presbyterian Church.

Chatham County, 1925-1926. African-American elementary school students gathered with teacher outside their school for a photograph.

Marietta, June 25, 1954. One of the first African-American Little League teams in Cobb County.

Marietta, 1890s. Clara Blackwell, Virginia Crosby's nurse.--from field notes

Near Dorchester, 1915. Woman using mortar and pestle to beat rice.

Probably Savannah or Chatham County, ca. 1853. Daguerreotype portrait of a white child being held by an African-American woman attired in traditional African headdress. ; The daguerreotype was taken by J.W. Miller, who was of the corner of St. Fuzian (?) and Market Square, Savannah, Georgia, at the time that the photograph was taken.

Sandersville, 1953. Members of the St. Andrews Masonic Lodge Number 32, an African-American fraternal organization, inside the St. Paul A. M. E. Church.

Dorchester Academy was opened by the American Missionary Association after the Civil War to educate newly freed slaves. It was both a boarding school and a day school. It was closed in 1940 after a consolidated public school for African American youth was built by Liberty County. It is now a community center. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often visited the center and prepared for the 1963 Birmingham civil rights campaign while at Dorchester Academy.

Thebes community, 1919. Students of Dorchester Academy.
Dorchester Academy was opened by the American Missionary Association after the Civil War to educate newly freed slaves. It was both a boarding school and a day school. It was closed in 1940 after a consolidated public school for African American youth was built by Liberty County. It is now a community center. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often visited the center and prepared for the 1963 Birmingham civil rights campaign while at Dorchester Academy.

Thebes community, 1930s. According to oral tradition, these two girls walked over ten miles each way to school at Dorchester Academy.

Thomas County, ca. 1895. African-American farm laborer.

 

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A couple of personal ones. My grandfather, his mother, and his sister

My grandfather and grandmother on their wedding day.

My great great grandfather

I knew the person in the last picture looked familiar:

you're related to Vashti?