Posts Tagged African American Portraits
Early 20th Century African American Portraits Tell a Tale of Two Worlds
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on May 19, 2017

Credit: Holley Graded School Museum and Art Gallery
15 years ago a stash of African American photographic portraits taken in the early 1900’s were discovered on a farm in the Northern Neck region of the Chesapeake Bay. And while they have not been identified, they provide clues to life in a rural, African American community 40 years after the Civil War. Now, there’s an effort to put them into a permanent exhibit. Pamela D’Angelo reports.

