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[African American boy leaning against a large tree in Georgia] – Historic Reproduction

[African American boy leaning against a large tree in Georgia], [1899 or 1900] — historic photograph
[African American boy leaning against a large tree in Georgia], [1899 or 1900]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A young African American boy leans against a large tree in Georgia, the trunk giving him a steady place to rest. The photograph comes from an album compiled by W.E.B. Du Bois, then a sociologist at Atlanta University, who assembled images of Black life in Georgia for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Du Bois used such pictures to counter the demeaning caricatures common in American popular imagery and to present Black Georgians as ordinary, dignified people. Dated 1899 or 1900, this print is a small but revealing part of that effort.

Created / published[1899 or 1900]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenreGelatin silver prints 1890-1900.
NotesIn album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 330. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Children--Georgia--1890-1900. Boys--Georgia--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,315 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-200846

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