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[The Hermitage, slave quarters, Savannah, Ga.] – Antique Print

[The Hermitage, slave quarters, Savannah, Ga.], [1907?] — historic photograph
[The Hermitage, slave quarters, Savannah, Ga.], [1907?]. Historic photograph from the Savannah 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 window into the past: [The Hermitage, slave quarters, Savannah, Ga.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[The Hermitage, slave quarters, Savannah, Ga.]

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Few sites near Savannah carry as much of the region's rice-plantation history as The Hermitage, a riverside estate whose cabins once housed the enslaved men and women who worked its fields. This glass negative, dated about 1907 and made by the Detroit Publishing Company, records those quarters in the early twentieth century, decades after emancipation, when many such buildings were already weathering or being repurposed. Detroit Publishing photographers traveled widely to document American landscapes and places of interest, so the view reflects what the company chose to show visitors and buyers of the time, not a neutral survey of the site. Its value to historians lies partly in that gap between how the place was presented and what it had been.

Created / published[1907?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 4168" and "G 4169" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034667. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsPlantations. Slave quarters.United States--Georgia--Savannah.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67503

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