[African Americans, mostly women, sorting tobacco at the T. C. Williams & Co., tobacco, Richmond, Virginia]
Summary
Title from caption card, with correction from T.B. to T.C. Williams.
Images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for the "American Negro Exhibit" at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900).
Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Tags
african americans
women
virginia
richmond
employment
tobacco industry
photographic prints
richmond va
african
americans
tobacco
williams
images black history month
black history month
19th century
lot 11302
african american photographs assembled for 1900 paris exposition
w e william edward burghardt du bois
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
world fair
library of congress
Date
01/01/1899
Contributors
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector
Location
Richmond (Va.)
,
37.55389, -77.46028
Source
Library of Congress
Link
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