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African American children

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 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 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