[Bazoline Estelle Usher, Atlanta University student, half-length portrait, facing front] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Bazoline Estelle Usher, Atlanta University student, half-length portrait, facing front], [1899 or 1900] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a8/a81a87232f97-L.webp)
(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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[Bazoline Estelle Usher, Atlanta University student, half-length portrait, facing front]
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Bazoline Estelle Usher is named in the record as an Atlanta University student, and this half-length, front-facing portrait is one of the individual sitters in a series of portraits that W. E. B. Du Bois assembled under the title *Types of American Negroes*. The sitters were students and residents of Atlanta, and the photographs were made around 1899 or 1900 for presentation at the Paris Exposition of 1900, where Du Bois aimed to show Black American life in terms that challenged prevailing racist stereotypes. The portrait's plain studio pose and direct gaze reflect that purpose, presenting the sitter as an educated individual rather than as a type. Historian Shawn M. Smith's study *Photography on the Color Line* examines this body of work and its place in debates over race and representation.
| Created / published | [1899 or 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Title identification information from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 6. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Photography on the color line / Shawn M. Smith. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004, p. 61. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Children--Georgia--1890-1900. Women--Georgia--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,279 × 5,375 px · prints to 14 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-213746 |
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