[African American man standing on porch of house in Georgia] – Antique Print
![[African American man standing on porch of house in Georgia], [1899 or 1900] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b4/b48afde32e6e-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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[African American man standing on porch of house in Georgia]
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Unlike most pictures of this kind, this one shows a Black man standing on the porch of a modest Georgia house, with the building itself as much the subject as the man. It comes from an album of photographs of Black life in Georgia that W.E.B. Du Bois compiled around 1899 and 1900, when he was working with Atlanta University. The series was assembled for the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, where it was meant to show American audiences and European visitors the lives, homes, and work of Black Georgians at the turn of the century. The porch and house give a sense of the everyday domestic setting that the project set out to document.
| Created / published | [1899 or 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 347. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2005. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Structures--Georgia--1890-1900. Houses--Georgia--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-200855 |
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