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Richard Amerson – Antique Print

Richard Amerson, [between 1937 and ca. 1938] — historic photograph
Richard Amerson, [between 1937 and ca. 1938]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Richard Amerson

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Richard Amerson is identified here by name, which sets this small print apart from the many anonymous portraits in the Federal Writers' Project series. The photograph belongs to a body of images made between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Works Progress Administration, when federal writers and photographers gathered accounts from people who had been enslaved before emancipation. Most of the sitters were by then elderly, and the portraits were meant to accompany their oral testimonies. The modest 3 by 2 inch gelatin silver print preserves a direct record of an older Black man whose life spanned slavery and freedom.

Created / published[between 1937 and ca. 1938]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 3 x 2 in.
GenrePortrait photographs 1930-1940.Gelatin silver prints 1930-1940.
Notes10186. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.
SubjectsAmerson, Richard. African Americans--Men--1930-1940. Older people--United States--1930-1940. Freedmen--United States--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,301 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-201075

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