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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Photographs depicting African American owned businesses and African American union members, primarily in the Southern United States, ca. 1899

About this Item

Title

  • Photographs depicting African American owned businesses and African American union members, primarily in the Southern United States, ca. 1899

Summary

  • Includes a group portrait of the Board of Directors of Coleman Manufacturing Co., Concord, N.C.; one single portrait of Warren S. Coleman; a view of the Coleman cotton mill; exterior and interior views of a general store at 2933 State St., Chicago, Ill.; a store in Buffalo, N.Y.; Uncle Paul's Pawn Shop, Augusta, Ga.; members of the bricklayers' and carpenters' union, Jacksonville, Fla.; officers of the Tobacco Trade Union, Petersburg, Va. Also a portrait of the Sisters of the Holy Family, New Orleans, La.; one group portrait of the 8th Battalion, Illinois Volunteer Regiment; Beard Hall, Tougaloo University, Miss.; interior of a teacher's home in New Orleans, La.; a professor's home, Wilberforce, Ohio.

Created / Published

  • 1899?

Headings

  • -  African Americans--1890-1900
  • -  African Americans--Employment--United States--1890-1900
  • -  African Americans--Military service--United States--1890-1900
  • -  Business enterprises--United States--1890-1900
  • -  Nuns--Louisiana--New Orleans--1890-1900
  • -  Labor unions--United States--1890-1900

Headings

  • Group portraits--1890-1900.
  • Photographic prints--1890-1900.
  • Portrait photographs--1890-1900.

Genre

  • Photographic prints--1890-1900
  • Portrait photographs--1890-1900
  • Group portraits--1890-1900

Notes

  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for the "American Negro Exhibit" at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900).

Medium

  • 16 photographic prints ; 21 x 33 cm. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 11308 (F) (H) [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2002717296

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

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  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  • Reproduction Number: ---
  • Call Number: LOT 11308 (F) (H) [P&P]
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Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Photographs depicting African American owned businesses and African American union members, primarily in the Southern United States. United States New Orleans Louisiana, 1899. ?. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2002717296/.

APA citation style:

(1899) Photographs depicting African American owned businesses and African American union members, primarily in the Southern United States. United States New Orleans Louisiana, 1899. ?. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2002717296/.

MLA citation style:

Photographs depicting African American owned businesses and African American union members, primarily in the Southern United States. ?. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2002717296/>.