Nineteenth Century portrait photographs
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 32 photographs and one photograph album. All but one is either a cabinet card or a carte de visite. Subjects include both children and adults and both black and white individuals. The collection still documents the social positions and aspirations of selected Augustan African-Americans between ca. 1870.
Dates
- Created: ca.1870-1900
Creator
- unknown (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Use of digital surrogates encouraged when available. The collection has no restrictions unless the Special Collections Librarian or their representative deems otherwise due to preservation concerns. Copies can be made by flashless digital photography
Conditions Governing Use
This work (19th Century Augusta Photographs) identified by University Libraries Augusta University is free of known copyright restrictions
Biographical or Historical Information
This collection contains examples of work by Augusta photography studios of the period: A. H. Camp; Arthur [O.] Macbeth; C. W. Dills Photograph Gallery; C.W. Motes; Davis Premium Gallery; J. Usher's Gallery; [L. B. Hunster]; L. C. Shwicer; L.N. Wade; New York Photo Company; Parlor Gallery; Pelot and Cole; Richards and Killheffer; Robert Williams; R. Williams and Son;
Many of the photographs in the collection are the studio portraits created by Robert E. Williams, an African-American photographer and studio owner.
Note written by
Extent
1.00 boxes
Language
English
Source of Acquisition
Center for the Study of Georgia History
Method of Acquisition
This collection was donated by the Center for the Study of Georgia History ca.2006-2007. It was acquired in the belief that it contained a photograph of Amanda America Dickson, an Augustan, who was once the richest African-American women in the United States. However an examination by Dr. Kent Leslie, writer of Dickson's definative biography, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893, disproved that any of the female subjects were Amanda America Dixon. Acc#2016.38
- Title
- Inventory of the Nineteenth Century portrait photographs
- Author
- Carol Waggoner-Angleton
- Description rules
- Other Unmapped
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- und
Repository Details
Part of the Reese Library Archives Repository