Negro drug store, Richmond, Va. – Vintage Print
(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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Negro drug store, Richmond, Va. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Negro drug store, Richmond, Va.
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A "Negro drug store" in Richmond, Virginia, is the subject here, and the period title itself reflects how Black-owned businesses were labeled at the time. The photograph was shown at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where the United States presented images of African American life, many assembled by W.E.B. Du Bois and his colleagues at Atlanta University. Black-owned shops like this one, including those in Richmond's Jackson Ward neighborhood, provided jobs and services within a segregated city. The record is based on an old caption card and is unverified, so the exact location and details should be read with some caution.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo from U.S. exhibit at Exposition Universal, 1900, Paris, France. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans--Employment; Drug stores; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,108 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145944 |
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