Apr 12, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Gwine to de field, Hopkinson’s Plantation, Edisto Island, S.C. Creator(s): Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911, photographer Date Created/Published: [1862] Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-11370 (digital file from original item, front) Rights...
Mar 28, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Today’s post on the Ancestors Page is a photo of an African American woman, perhaps an elder, seated with a young child in the front yard of 312 Gaston Street in Savannah, GA. The notation for the photo states that the picture was taken in 1939 or 1944. Please...
Mar 26, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress are an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. The photographs were taken by field agents for three...
Mar 25, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This letter was written by James Perkins of Jacksonboro, Colleton County, SC. Perkins, a veteran who served in Company K, 35th United States Colored Troops, was inquiring about bounty pay due him for his service from 1863 to 1866. Perkins asks that correspondence to...
Mar 24, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
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Mar 23, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This picture, taken some time after 1910, depicts African American employees of the American Sumatra Tobacco Company in Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida [1]. Formed by a merger of twelve growers in 1910, the American Sumatra Tobacco Company owned 34,000 acres of land...
Mar 22, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
In this note interfiled with rations requests written to Captain F. Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, J. Calhoun Cain states that Freedman James Jenkins formerly belonged to his father. In the note, dated 11 July 1867 and written from Pinopolis, SC, Cain states...
Mar 21, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
These pictures, taken at Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC, were reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Mar 20, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This letter, dated 26 Aug 1867, was written by W.E. Stoney to Captain F.W. Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, to request rations for Charles McBride and Philippy Cordes, two elders living at Stoney’s plantation in Berkeley, SC. Stoney states that Charles...
Mar 20, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This remarkable letter, written in 1867 by Charles B. Lucas of Whitehall, SC to the Freedmen’s Bureau, names 3 generations of the African American Doctor family. In the letter, Charles Lucas writes to Captain Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, to request...
