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[Bazoline Estelle Usher, Atlanta University student, half-length portrait, facing right] – Historic Photograph Print

[Bazoline Estelle Usher, Atlanta University student, half-length portrait, facing right], [1899 or 1900] — historic photograph
[Bazoline Estelle Usher, Atlanta University student, half-length portrait, facing right], [1899 or 1900]. Historic photograph from the Atlanta 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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Step back in time with [Bazoline Estelle Usher, Atlanta University student, half-length portrait, facing right], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Bazoline Estelle Usher, Atlanta University student, half-length portrait, facing right]

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Bazoline Estelle Usher, a student at Atlanta University, sits in this half-length studio portrait turned to the right, a pose typical of formal photography of the 1890s. The print comes from an album titled *Types of American Negroes*, compiled by W.E.B. Du Bois around 1899 or 1900 for the Paris Exposition. Du Bois, then teaching at Atlanta University, used portraits like this to counter prevailing white stereotypes with images of educated Black Americans. The photograph is part of the Daniel Murray Collection at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[1899 or 1900]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Gelatin silver prints 1890-1900.
NotesTitle identification information from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 5. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Photography on the color line / Shawn M. Smith. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004, p. 61.
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Children--Georgia--1890-1900. Women--Georgia--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,293 × 5,335 px · prints to 14 × 18 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213748

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