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Jamaica, British West Indies, c. 1910. Robert Jacinto Russell (1877-1965), a blacksmith who later upgraded his skill set to repair Model T Fords, poses with wife Irene Elizabeth Russell nee Hall (1886-1960). They would celebrate 50 years of marriage in 1956. Neither ever traveled more than 100 miles from their respective places of birth. Today, their great-grandchildren can be found on at least three different continents.
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SeydouKeitaPhotog... has many high-res images by the greatl Malian photographer who died in 2001
Another mystery beauty, 1912, via VintageBlackGlamour, @SchomburgCenter, and Flickr
some wonderful portraits of children at VintageBlackFolk
Daguerreotype of unnamed young woman, beautifully dressed and coiffed, holding a book. Photo by Thomas M. Easterly
Philadelphia Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of African-American Woman price at 2005 auction: 2,645.00 USD
Aida Overton Walker (via LascaSartoris.tum..., via vintagebeauties)
More about Minnie Brown --taken at White Studios, NY, 1907 From the link: “She was an actress and singer. And also a member of the Williams & Walker Vaudevillian troupe. In 1920 she served as vice president for the National Association of Negro Musicians.”
Three women from Guadeloupe, on Ellis Island, about 1910, by Augustus Sherman
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unknown little girl photographed at Arthur L. Macbeth Studio in Baltimore, MD.
Jerome Liebling, Butterfly Boy, New York City, 1949 Black-Culture tumblr -- well worth a leisurely visit
"African slave in Brazil" also labeled as "Girl from Salvador 1869" on wiki.healthhaven.... via FlyGirls
Educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown on her wedding day in 1912. Founder of the historic Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina, Ms. Brown was also one of the invaluable suffragists who worked for black women to have the same equal rights black men and white women were fighting for in the early 20th century.
Montgomery, Alabama,1886, collection of NY Public Library
This is a portrait of a young African American woman. The photograph was taken in 1899. So many of the pictures of African Americans from this era are in the context of sharecropping and other more unfortunate circumstances. While we don't have any other details on this photograph, it appears that this woman, and her family have done better than what was typical for African Americans of this time.
” The response of the National Woman’s Party to the disenfranchisement of African-American women illustrates that women’s identity as women does not always transcend other differences or make women more sensitive to the discrimination faced by other disadvantaged groups. The campaign for women’s suffrage was fraught with conflict over the issue of race. Many white suffragists did not want to antagonize southern supporters of the suffrage movement by endorsing African-American women’s right to...
“Stagecoach” Mary Fields (c. 1832-1914) was born a slave in Tennessee and following the Civil War, she moved to the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana. In 1895, when she was around 60 years old, Fields became the second woman and first African American carrier for the US Postal Service. Despite her age, she never missed a day of work in the ten years she carried the mail and earned the nickname “Stagecoach” for her reliability. Fields loved the job, despite the many dangers and difficultie...
Beauty in riding habits circa 1880s. Simply stunning.
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woman of martinique circa 1910 (is this the source for the great engraving in the Dover "Women" volume?)
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