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[African American man, half-length portrait, facing front] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[African American man, half-length portrait, facing front], [1899 or 1900] — historic photograph
[African American man, half-length portrait, facing front], [1899 or 1900]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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 half-length portrait of a Black man facing the camera is number 45 in the first volume of *Types of American Negroes*, an album assembled by W.E.B. Du Bois. The photograph is tagged to Georgia and dates from about 1899 or 1900, when Du Bois was working at Atlanta University and gathering images of Black life in the state. Du Bois organized such portraits and related material into a display for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where he meant to replace stereotyped images of Black Americans with dignified, documented ones. The album's contents were later part of the Daniel Murray Collection at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[1899 or 1900]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Gelatin silver prints 1890-1900.
NotesIn album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 45. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Men--Georgia--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,303 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-200587

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