Month: May 2024

Mrs. Streety, a widow, and her household. West Point, Miss. The four young people working in the mill are on the ground. Each day, the […]

Mrs. Cora Graves, an African American woman aged 36, lives in Reidsville, N.C., with her 38-year-old husband, their six children, and her mother-in-law. Their income […]

Description: A Navajo (Native American) woman poses outside with her twins. Seated next to a wagon. In the crisp Colorado air of the 1920s, a […]

A little child of Edgar Allen engaged in play with a doll. The two largest pieces of furniture in the house are the sewing machine […]

West Virginia and Ohio, 1896–1912… Description This image shows a little girl with a kitten at her feet and flowers in her hands. Traveling photographer […]

Photographs by Joe Clark HBSS documented daily life in Claiborne County from the past. Take, for instance, this 1940s photo titled “Aunt Nora Treece Tying […]

The caption of the photographer Eleven-year-old Homer Hunt harvesting berries. Says he has made $10 picking and has been out of school for a few […]

Tobacco Bag Stringing: MRS. EUGENIA ALLEN; married, with three children and four grandchildren living with her; 51 years old; husband is 59. They live in […]

1937 in Georgia… Caption: Family of cotton sharecroppers. Georgia’s Macon County…

At La Delta Project, farm supervisor Eugene T. Martin is talking with George Campbell about the cotton crop while Campbell is applying soda nitrate on […]

Along the front steps of her home, a young girl is standing with her dog. Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image sometime […]

The photo was taken in 1840 and features Hannah Stilley. Why does this matter? She was the first person to be photographed when they were […]