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[African Americans, mostly women, sorting tobacco at the T. C. Williams & Co., tobacco, Richmond, Virginia]

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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.

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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
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01/01/1899
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector
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Location

Richmond (Va.) ,  37.55389, -77.46028
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Library of Congress
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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