Nineteenth Century portrait photographs

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS-376

Staff Only

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

Additional Description

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

Related Materials

Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co,), ca. 1872-1898 Ms 1284 Hargrett Library, University of Georgia

https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/dlg_zlrw