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[Portrait group of African American Carpenters union, Jacksonville, Florida] – Historic Photograph Print

[Portrait group of African American Carpenters union, Jacksonville, Florida], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Portrait group of African American Carpenters union, Jacksonville, Florida], [1899?]. Historic photograph from the Jacksonville 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Portrait group of African American Carpenters union, Jacksonville, Florida]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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What sets this picture apart is its subject: Black tradesmen posing together as members of a carpenters' union in Jacksonville. The caption card notes that the print was shown in the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900, a display largely assembled by W.E.B. Du Bois to present Black American life through photographs. Skilled building trades offered some of the steadiest wages open to Black workers in the New South, and unions gave such men a way to bargain collectively in a city where segregation was tightening. The date of about 1899 is tentative.

Created / published[1899?]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Caption card tracings: Occupations; African Americans -- Working; Fla.; Labor & L. org; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,221 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117698

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