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[Portrait group of African American Bricklayers union, Jacksonville, Florida] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Portrait group of African American Bricklayers union, Jacksonville, Florida], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Portrait group of African American Bricklayers 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Portrait group of African American Bricklayers union, Jacksonville, Florida] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Posed in Jacksonville, Florida, these African American bricklayers belonged to a union, a detail that sets this group apart from most photographs of Black workers from the period. The record dates the picture to about 1899 and notes that it was shown in the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900, a display assembled by W.E.B. Du Bois and his colleagues at Atlanta University to present evidence of Black life and progress. Black workers in the post-Reconstruction South often formed their own unions because white-run locals frequently shut them out, so a group portrait like this one signals both skilled trade and collective organization.

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. #101. Caption card tracings: Occupations; African Americans -- Working; Fla.; Labor & L. org.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,224 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117699

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