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African American visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS68
Scope and Content
This collection contains various types of visual images, including photographs, lithoghraphs, posters, and prints from periodicals, pertaining to African Americans. Included in the collection are stereotypical racist pictures and postcards; photographs of African Americans working as domestics, agricultural laborers, musicians, streetcar conductors, etc.; portraits of African American women, men, and children; prints depicting significant events, such as the Fort Pillow Massacre and the...
Dates:
1860-1957, undated
Plaster and Smith families photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS440
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs of members of the Plaster and Smith families. Photographs show Plaster family members gathered for family reunions, Emma Plaster (1905-1987) at school with her classmates, and a group portrait of young women, including Tullie Smith (1886-1967), titled “The Four Smith Sisters.” Additional photographs include unidentified men, some wearing Confederate uniforms, unidentified Girl Scouts, and an unidentified residence. Of special note are photographs of the...
Dates:
1835-1950, undated
Vincent A. Irick photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS39
Scope and Content
The collection provides excellent documentation of African Americans in rural Georgia and Florida, and is composed of 90 black and white and cyanotype photographs. Featured are scenes of Spencer’s farm and farm activities, and images of Irick’s friends and family. The bulk of the collection consists of images of African-Americans who lived and worked on the farm, including many depictions of children. The majority of the photographs are in excellent condition; the cyanotypes in particular...
Dates:
undated
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- Agriculture -- Georgia -- Faceville 1
- Cheshire Bridge Road (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Children -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century 1
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- Education -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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- Blackshear of Macon, photography 1
- Brown, John 1
- C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Condon, Linnie, 1844-1909 1
- Cotton States Exposition (1895 : Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Hartsfield, William Berry 1
- Herndon, Alonzo, 1858- 1
- Irick, Vincent A. 1
- Jackson, James M. 1
- Kelly, Andrew T. 1
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
- McKinley, William 1
- McQueen, Butterfly 1
- Moore, Jacob Ridgeway 1
- Morrison, Hal 1
- Plaster, Kathleen 1
- Redden & Vickery, photographers 1
- Rock Spring School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Simon, Jewel W. 1
- Spencer, Judge 1
- Tullie Smith House (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Tuskegee Institute 1
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