African American families
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of African American Children photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16798
Content Description
This collection contains ninety-eight photographs of African American children and families at home and play from about the 1950s to the 1990s. Measurements range from 6" X 4" to 2" X 2" inches and are in color and black and white. Several subjects recur throughout the archive. All are unidentified; only three have any annotations on the back. The photographed figures, primarily children but some family shots included, are captured within their homes or playing outside. Activities include...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1950s-1990s
African American girl's birthday photograph album
Collection — Box BW 50, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16756
Content Description
This collection contains a photo album containing fifteen original black-and-white photographs from the 1960s of a birthday celebration of a young Black girl and her family.Exceptional depiction of an 11 year old's birthday party with all of it's innocence, happiness and absence of the racial world that lives outside the doors of their grandmother's nice home.The children are wearing cone hats and there is dancing, presents, game playing, a birthday cake, blowing out candles, and an...
Dates:
1960s
African American Hugh Carr family, River View Farm, and the Papers of the Ivy Creek Foundation
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10770
Scope and Contents
The papers contain correspondence, legal documents (copies), clippings, articles, research material, maps, and photographs concerning the Ivy Creek Natural Area and its history as the River View Farm owned by the Carr family (African Americans in late nineteenth century), including the original purchase by the Nature Conservancy, the formation of the Ivy Creek Foundation, and its administration of the property.Included among these is a notebook titled, Ivy Creek Natural Area...
Dates:
1916-1988
African American programs and photographs from Roanoke, and Wytheville, Virginia
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032762754]
Identifier: MSS 16901
Content Description
This collection contains four programs and eight photographs documenting mid-twentieth-century African American life in Roanoke and Wytheville, Virginia. Two programs for Debutante Balls hosted by “The Altruists,” a club for Black women in Roanoke, are dated 1954 and 1977. The Altruist Club program for 1954 has "Stella Ednise Miller" in blue ink on the cover. A 1958 pamphlet for a Virginia Congress Colored P.T.A. annual work conference held at Scott Memorial School in Wytheville discusses...
Dates:
1954-1977
African Americans in rural Virginia photographs
Collection — Folder MSS 16923: [Barcode: X032784970]
Identifier: MSS 16923
Content Description
This collection contains twenty black and white photographs, approximately 9 x 7 inches, depicting African American life, presumably in a segregated area in rural Virginia. The pictures have no annotations on the back, and the photographer is unknown. The location is also unclear; however, it may be somewhere near or in Fauquier County, Virginia. This location possibility is based on a photograph that depicts several storefronts, including a beauty salon which has two names painted on the...
Dates:
C. 1940s
African Americans in rural Virginia photographs
Unprocessed Material — Folder MSS 16923: [Barcode: X032784970]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0072
Culpeper County, Virginia hunting album containing photographs of African American families
Collection — Box BW 55, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16742
Content Description
This collection contains a photograph album depicting a wide range of hunting experiences in the environs of rural Culpepper County, Virginia at the turn of the century. The album contains ninety uncaptioned, mounted photos of hunting scenes including bagged game such as quail, foxes, turkeys, and deer, usually depicted with hunters and hunting dogs. There are photographs of hunters in groups from one to a half dozen, posed in the woods, with shotguns, or posed with guns and dogs. Several...
Dates:
c.1905
Hampton Institute student photograph album
Collection — Box BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16525
Content Description
This collection contains a photograph album of a student from Hampton Institute. The original photo album, measuring 7' x 10' with 24 pages, contains 44 black and white photographs of an unidentified young Black woman, approximately 20 years old, as well as cut newspaper images and a photo postcard. She is seen at Hampton Institute, a historically Black University, in Hampton, Virginia, posing in front of school buildings, clowning around with friends, and preparing for graduation. Also...
Dates:
undated
Hugh Carr family papers and River View Farm
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10176
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the history of Hugh Carr, an African American born in enslavement in 1843 and his family who lived on a tract of land (River View Farm) that Carr and his wife Texie Mae Hawkins bought in 1870 after emancipation. He became one of the largest African American landowners in Albemarle County, where he raised several generations of his family in the Union Ridge Hydraulic Mills community, until his death in 1914.The papers show that Carr highly valued...
Dates:
1843-1978
Piney Pond School photograph
Collection — Box BW 33, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16508
Content Description
This collection contains a gelatin silver photograph of about fifty Black students, parents, and faculty in front of a rustic schoolhouse. About two-thirds of the participants are students with the rest either faculty or parents. Caption on label reads: "La Crosse, Va. Piney Pond School April 3, 1914."
Dates:
3 April 1914
Leonard H. Robinson memories photo album
Collection — Box BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16772
Content Description
This collection contains one photo album documenting the late adolescence and early adult years of Leonard H. Robinson from 1913 to 1919. Robinson, a Black man, was born and raised in Ohio. Robinson was light-skinned, which allowed him to be a part of the black and white communities of Marietta, Ohio, where he was raised, and his life in Akron, Ohio, where he lived for a short time. The album documents himself and his life, including pictures of his family and friends of both races, him as a...
Dates:
1913-1919
Roger Horace Johnson Sr. and family papers
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2025-0010
Thomas H. Brown Funeral Home ledger and photograph
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-16474
Content Description
This collection contains the manuscript ledger book, "Record of Deaths" kept by Thomas H. Brown's Funeral Home, 301 Gill Street, Petersburg, Virginia. This book detailed the funerals of approximately 500 African Americans during the last years of the Great Depression. The volume opens with a twenty-four page alphabetical index, listing the names of the deceased persons with the number of the page for further information about their funerals. Entries for each funeral appear in chronological...
Dates:
1935 - 1941
Tinsley, Edwards, and Rich family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 16920
Content Description
The collection MSS 16920 contains the Tinsley, Edwards, Rich family history (1795; 1820-1978) written by William George Rich III (1905-1988) about his great-great grandfather who called himself William Tinsley (born into enslavery in 1795,and freed in 1820), his great grandparents Nelson and Lauren Broady Tinsley, (an indigenous woman) and his grandparents Charles Robert Tinsley (1851-1919) and Betty Edwards Tinsley (1855-1924) (daughter of an indigenous woman Malinda Edwards)and their eight...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1870 - 1988; 1819-1820
Tinsley, Edwards, and Rich family papers
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2025-0077
Arthur L. Wharton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16874
Content Description
This collection contains photographs, photo albums, letters, certificates, and a program belonging to Arthur L. Wharton and his wife, Betty Lou Golden Wharton, relating to Arthur's career as a mapmaker for the Central Intelligence Agency and documenting their family life.
Arthur's career in the Central Intelligence Agency is represented here by five documents and two photographs. The documents include a printed certificate of commendation from the CIA's National Intelligence...
Dates:
c.1930-1963