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Description
Three photographs from a collection of "Southern character views", issued by Russell Bros. of Anniston, Alabama. These images show African American women and men working at various tasks. A woman with a pair of oxen hitched to a plow, two women washing clothes outside, and a woman standing at a spinning wheel with a man sitting and using carding combs. A partial listing of available prints, with chiefly pejorative descriptions, and prices for prints in different sizes are printed on the verso of the image of the woman plowing Photo numbered 236 in this set has a different caption listed on verso, but the same scene is described. Search reveals a picture that is shot from a slightly different angle, with the woman in different clothes, but markings on foreground ox are the same. The other two images do not appear on the list Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Still image Anniston, Alabama :, Russell Bros. "No-haw Buck" (no. 236) -- "Bile dem clothes down" (no. 364) -- "Afore de war" (unnumbered)
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : black and white on card mounts ; 14 x 22 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb2807188h
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Nineteenth century African Americans in popular culture African American men Stereotypes (Social psychology) Twentieth century Rural African Americans History Photographs African American women
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