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The last surviving former slave in the region is Nancy Bradford. Born on January 4th, 1851, she worked as a nurse for a family in […]

The Conner family is seen outside their home in Gatlinburg’s Glades neighborhood. (L to R) Lona Conner McClure (1890–1976), Ida Etter Conner King (1885–1951), and […]

A couple sits on a bench outside a church.

  In the summer of 1908, the Smith family of Kansas embarked on a journey emblematic of the American pioneer spirit. With their life’s belongings […]

Tennessee’s Claiborne County, 1940s–1950s… Picture of a little child comforting a weeping infant. The unidentified girl in the picture is smiling and cradling a baby […]

The caption of the photographer Hyman Bachwald, New York, 167 Allen Street. both epileptic and neurotic. Before being married, Mother worked in a factory, and […]

A man and his daughter are sitting on a bed outside in the Mays Avenue camp under a bridge. The Oklahoma City area…  

Louisiana’s Baton Rouge, 1861–1865… Two unidentified escaped slaves in torn clothing/ Taken in Baton Rouge by McPherson & Oliver

Five young girls, all dressed in white, are pictured posing on a house’s porch. Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image sometime between […]

Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image of a woman sitting outside with piles of lumber in the backdrop sometime between 1896 and […]

  The kitchen in a packed flat. Illinois’s Chicago…

Margaret, Nellie Johnson McLemore, and Dr. George Ammie McLemore are shown in the caption. (verso) The background shows the home and office…