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• Collection: Guide Records

• Title: Du Bois Collection of visual materials about African Americans assembled for the Paris Exposition of 1900
• Other Title: African American photographs assembled for the Paris Exposition
  Visual materials about African Americans assembled for the Paris Exposition of 1900
• Creator(s): Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, compiler
• Related Names:
     Calloway, Thomas J.
     Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
     Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
• Date Created/Published: 1899-1900.
• Medium: ca. 650 items (chiefly photographic prints)
• Summary: Photographs and other visual material documenting the history of African Americans in Georgia and other areas of the Southern United States. Subjects include portraits of unidentified men, women, and children; photographs of colleges, students, businesses, workers, and houses. Additional views of churches, clubs, unions, home interiors, and family groups provide glimpses of everyday life. Charts of census and statistical data show the economic and social condition of African Americans since emancipation with special studies for the state of Georgia (microfilm LOT 11931). Handwritten transcriptions of Georgia state laws governing slaves and freedmen from 1732-1899 are also included (microfilm LOT 11932).
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Access Advisory: For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog or the microfilm copy to preserve the fragile original items.
• Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Organized under the call number prefix: LOT. This collection includes 363 photographs (in four albums) compiled by Du Bois to show "Types of American Negroes, Georgia, U.S.A." (people) and "Negro Life in Georgia, U.S.A." (activities) (LOT 11930); 217 mounted photographs organized by subject (LOT 11293-LOT 11308); 72 drawings of charts, graphs, and maps showing statistical and census data (Microfilm LOT 11931); three albums entitled "The Black Code of Georgia, U.S.A.," containing transcriptions of Georgia state laws relating to African Americans, 1732-1899 (Microfilm LOT 11932). Each LOT is separately cataloged.
  • Digitized images of photographs in LOT 11930 along with associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog.
  • Charts (LOT 11931) and transcripts of Georgia Black codes (LOT 11932) are available on microfilm in the Prints & Photographs Division Reading Room.
  • Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt, "The American Negro at Paris" American Monthly Review of Reviews 22:5 (November 1900), p. 576.
  • Report of the Commissioner-General of the United States to the International Universal Exposition, Paris, 1900 (Washington : Government Printing Office, 1901) v. II, pp. 381, 408-409, 463-467.
  • These materials were assembled for the "American Negro" exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition by W.E.B. Du Bois with direction from Thomas J. Calloway, special agent for the Exposition. Both men were awarded gold medals for their efforts: Calloway as compiler for the "Negro Exhibit" and Du Bois, as compiler for special studies related to the "Georgia Negro."
  • Collection title devised by Library staff.
  • Most of the photographs lack photographer credits.
  • Forms part of the Daniel Murray Collection at the Library of Congress.
  • Gift; Daniel Murray; 1925.
• Subjects:
  • Exposition universelle--(1900 :--Paris, France)
  • African Americans--1890-1900.
  • Slaves--Georgia--1890-1900.
  • Freedmen--Georgia--1730-1900.
  • Laws--Georgia--1730-1900.
• Format:
  • Charts--1890-1900.
  • Group portraits--1890-1900.
  • Photographic prints--1890-1900.
  • Portrait photographs--1890-1900.
  • Transcripts.
• Collections:
  • Guide Records
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
• Medium: ca. 650 items (chiefly photographic prints)

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• Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
• Medium: ca. 650 items (chiefly photographic prints)
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