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[Christ Church parish(?), Boone Hall cabins, slave quarters(?), Charleston Co., South Carolina] – Antique Print

[Christ Church parish(?), Boone Hall cabins, slave quarters(?), Charleston Co., South Carolina], [between 1936 and 1938] — historic photograph
[Christ Church parish(?), Boone Hall cabins, slave quarters(?), Charleston Co., South Carolina], [between 1936 and 1938]. 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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[Christ Church parish(?), Boone Hall cabins, slave quarters(?), Charleston Co., South Carolina]

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Johnston's record places this view at Boone Hall, the Charleston County plantation northeast of the city, where a row of brick cabins stands along the approach to the main house. The catalog entry is uncertain about both the parish and whether the buildings were slave quarters, so the attribution rests on the plantation's known history. Frances Benjamin Johnston made photographs like this between 1936 and 1938, when she documented Southern buildings for the Carnegie-funded survey of Southern architecture. Her images of such dwellings preserve details of construction and setting at a time when many of these structures were deteriorating or being altered.

Created / published[between 1936 and 1938]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1970.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
SubjectsSlave quarters--South Carolina. African Americans--Structures--South Carolina.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,265 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183883

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