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New car, South Richmond, Virginia, August, 1938 / Robert H. McNeill. – Vintage Wall Art

New car, South Richmond, Virginia, August, 1938 / Robert H. McNeill., [published 1983] — historic print
New car, South Richmond, Virginia, August, 1938 / Robert H. McNeill., [published 1983]. Historic print from the Richmond 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: New car, South Richmond, Virginia, August, 1938 / Robert H. McNeill., preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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New car, South Richmond, Virginia, August, 1938 / Robert H. McNeill.

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A new car is the subject of this August 1938 view of South Richmond, Virginia. In the 1930s, few Black families in segregated Richmond could afford a new automobile, so the purchase stood as a visible sign of economic progress in a community that mainstream photography often ignored. The photograph is by Robert H. McNeill, a Black photographer working in Richmond, and it was reproduced in Valencia Hollins Coar's 1983 survey *A Century of Black Photographers, 1840-1960*, which helped bring such local work to a wider audience.

Created / published[published 1983]
Medium1 photomechanical print.
GenreBook illustrations 1980-1990.Photomechanical prints 1980-1990.
NotesIllus. in: A Century of Black photographers: 1840-1960 / Valencia Hollins Coar. [Providence, R.I.] : Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, c1983, pg. 113. Copyright by Rhode Island School of Design.
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Social life--Virginia--Richmond--1980-1990.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,308 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180184

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