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[Freedmen's quarters] – Historic Print

[Freedmen's quarters], New Berne, N.C. : J.D. Heywood's Photographic Rooms, [between 1870 and 1900(?)] — historic photograph
[Freedmen's quarters], New Berne, N.C. : J.D. Heywood's Photographic Rooms, [between 1870 and 1900(?)]. Historic photograph from the Home & Household 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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The title on this carte de visite, "Freedmen's quarters," names a kind of housing that emerged after emancipation, when formerly enslaved African Americans needed homes of their own. The card was made in New Berne, North Carolina, by J.D. Heywood's photographic rooms, a local studio. New Berne had been under Union control since 1862, and in the years that followed, many freed people there and across the region sought housing, work and land. Cartes de visite were small, inexpensive mounted prints popular in the 1870s and 1880s. The catalog dates this one only loosely, so the exact year is uncertain, but the card still documents a community's postwar living conditions.

Created / publishedNew Berne, N.C. : J.D. Heywood's Photographic Rooms, [between 1870 and 1900(?)]
Medium1 photographic print on carte de visite mount.
GenrePhotographic prints 1870-1900.Cartes de visite 1870-1900.
NotesGladstone Collection. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1995:113.57 (CDV64).
SubjectsHousing--1870-1900. African Americans--Structures--1870-1900. Freedmen--1870-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,467 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218446

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