Photo numbered 236 in this set has a different caption listed on verso, but the same scene is described. Search reveals a picture that is shot from a slightly different angle, with the woman in different clothes, but markings on foreground ox are the same. The other two images do not appear on the list

Three photographs from a collection of "Southern character views", issued by Russell Bros. of Anniston, Alabama. These images show African American women and men working at various tasks. A woman with a pair of oxen hitched to a plow, two women washing clothes outside, and a woman standing at a spinning wheel with a man sitting and using carding combs. A partial listing of available prints, with chiefly pejorative descriptions, and prices for prints in different sizes are printed on the verso of the image of the woman plowing

• approximately 1900

• Russell Bros

• Turner, Steve (Art dealer)

"No-haw Buck" (no. 236) -- "Bile dem clothes down" (no. 364) -- "Afore de war" (unnumbered)

3 photographs : black and white on card mounts ; 14 x 22 cm

still image

• African American men
• African American women
• African Americans in popular culture
• History
• Nineteenth century
• Photographs
• Rural African Americans
• Stereotypes (Social psychology)
• Twentieth century

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Mms: 991004641839706535

Anniston, Alabama :, Russell Bros.

Public domain (US)

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2024-07-20