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[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Gossiping at the gate] – Historic Print

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Gossiping at the gate], c1879. — historic photograph
[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Gossiping at the gate], c1879.. Historic photograph from the Charleston 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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Scenes of Black workers in Charleston, South Carolina, were a staple of stereograph publishers in the late 1870s, and this card, titled "Gossiping at the gate," shows a small moment of idle talk rather than hard labor. It was issued by Kilburn Brothers, the Littleton, New Hampshire firm that produced many stereo views of Southern cities in the years after the Civil War. The caption card's subject tracings include pumps, street vendors, cotton, rice, and docks, which point to the port economy that drove the city. Because the record's data comes from an old caption card and has not been fully verified, the exact location and the people shown are best read as part of the wider visual record of the period.

Created / publishedc1879.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Kilburn Brothers. No. 468. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans--Working; Pumps; Street vendors; Cotton Industry; Rice; Docks; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,219 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142000

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