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Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with a woman who says she is one of the subjects' descendants.
In the book Pictures With Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Tanya Sheehan discusses the work of black photographers such as Cornelius ...
Harvard calls the situation "complex" as they still have not been able to confirm Lanier's relation to the enslaved persons.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has purchased a groundbreaking collection of images by some of ... statement that spotlighting early African American photographers ...
says Eleanor Jones Harvey, a senior curator here at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). She points to a portrait made in 1859 of an African ... images showing Brady and other early ...
A fascinating new collection of family portraits from the early 1900s depicts the lives of African Americans in ... Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William ...
The history of the African-American community in Wichita has been documented in “Images of America ... decades of life in Wichita and features early African-American families, segregation ...
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