Tag Archives: African Americans
Tuesday Tips – Researching Photographers Working in the South part 2
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee A Section of one of my bookshelves, photo by the author Welcome to the second of my series of posts on Researching Photographers Working in the South. There is a good reason to become familiar with these sources. We must continue to seek the facts that will help […]
A Psychic Photographer, the Mysterious Grace Gray DeLong – Faces & Places Friday
Portrait of Madame DeLong used in her Aug. 1911 “Ask Mme. DeLong” advertisements, Savannah GA This post could easily be a Monday Mystery. My subject of the day is Grace Gray Delong who briefly ran a photography studio in Savannah, Georgia, but spent most of her career working as a psychic. She worked as a psychic […]
Monday Miscellany: Mystery & More
I recently came across this short article on page 6 of the Macon (GA) Telegraph for Sunday, Nov. 18, 1883, which was apparently reproduced from a New York newspaper, the World (publishers since 1868 of the World Almanac). A Colored Artist Who Colors. New York Special. The World has discovered here a promising young colored artist, Frank […]
Memorial Day, and a Mystery Photo
On this day, Memorial Day, I have chosen some images from my collection depicting soldiers in the United States military. Two are related to the Spanish American War, and the other, the Mystery Photo, was apparently taken just after WWI. The Monday Mystery photograph for today is a photo postcard postmarked “Atlanta May 1919” and captioned […]
Monday Photo Mystery Solved!
And it was solved asap via comments made regarding yesterday’s post. My thanks to all of you, and particularly to my former graduate assistant Wesley Chenault (now Head of Special Collections & Archives, VA Commonwealth University), for immediately identifying Dr. Henry R. Butler, Sr. and pointing me to the Selena Sloan Butler Papers at the […]
A Monday Mystery Photograph
Previously I said I would be posting some of my “mystery” photographs and other curious mystery items. I thought I would begin with this one. Maybe someone out there can solve this mystery for me. I purchased a portrait a few months ago by Atlanta photographer William L. Brockman, an African-American photographer who once worked […]
Hunting and Gathering 
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