Jan 2, 2014 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
By Toni Carrier no images were found This page contains many photo galleries (we didn’t want to leave anything out!). Please allow a few moments for the galleries to load. The gallery above has 130 pics from this year. Be sure to scroll back up after reading the...
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 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 19, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Little tea pickers, who sang for President Roosevelt – Pinehurst Tea Farm, Summerville, S.C. Creator(s): Underwood & Underwood, publisher Date Created/Published: New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas: Underwood & Underwood, publishers,...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Nursery at Elliott’s, Hilton Head, S.C. / photographed and for sale by H.P. Moore, Concord, N.H. Creator(s): Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911, photographer Date Created/Published: [1862 or 1863?] Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ;...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Two African American men sitting on stoop, Charleston, South Carolina Digital ID: (digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g12119 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g12119 Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-12119 (color film copy transparency)...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Children of the Oliver family, tenant purchase borrowers, Summerton, South Carolina Creator(s): Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer Date Created/Published: 1939 June? Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm. Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-030495-M1...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: “Negro boy. Florence County, South Carolina” Creator(s): Cox, photographer Date Created/Published: 1938 Summer. Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-015758-D (b&w film nitrate neg.) Rights...
