Scott Hooper, ex-slave, Ft. Worth – Historic Print
(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 Scott Hooper, ex-slave, Ft. Worth. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Scott Hooper, ex-slave, Ft. Worth
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Scott Hooper, a man formerly enslaved and later living in Fort Worth, Texas, was photographed on November 9, 1937, as part of a Works Progress Administration project. The small gelatin silver print belongs to a series of portraits of older African Americans who had lived through slavery, made as the Federal Writers' Project gathered first-person accounts from people born in bondage during the 1930s. The portraits were meant to accompany these life histories, so the sitter's face and bearing stand alongside his spoken memories of the period. Viewed today, the picture is a record of a generation that was then nearing the end of its lives.
| Created / published | 1937 Nov. 9. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 5 x 3 1/4 in. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1930-1940.Gelatin silver prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | 420234. District no. 27. Picture no. 553. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections. |
| Subjects | Hooper, Scott. African Americans--Men--1930-1940. Freedmen--Texas--Fort Worth--1930-1940. Older people--Texas--Fort Worth--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,324 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-201175 |
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