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Ezelle

Nashville TN, 1910’s

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Trouble

1931, Lafayette, LA

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Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, photographerCreated / Published1942 June.

Washington, D.C. Young girl who lives near the Capitol

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Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, photographerCreated / Published1942 June.

Washington, D.C. Young girl who lives near the Capitol

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White Plains, Greene County, Georgia. The three-teacher Negro school

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Negro agricultural day laborer taking a nap in his home. Muskogee, Oklahoma. Muskogee County 1939 June, Photographed by Russell Lee

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Negro agricultural day laborer putting on his shoes. Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma

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The Field Quarters at Hermitage

In the Field Quarter stood four, nearly identical brick duplexes. Each building had chimneys at both ends. All that remains of these buildings are the foundations that have been unearthed by archaeologists.

The four buildings formed a square with a central ‘courtyard area’. These brick buildings were most likely built around 1821 once the brick Hermitage mansion was finished. At least one earlier log dwelling was also located in this area.

The archaeological findings at the Field Quarter have revealed significant information about slave life at The Hermitage. Many activities took place in the Field Quarter yard areas outside rather than inside the cramped quarters.

Archaeologists found brick paving or flooring outside the doorway of one cabins and excavated a fence line (postholes) alongside another cabin.

Artifacts in and around these buildings have revealed a great deal of information about the Field Quarter slaves’ lives and culture.

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July 1937. "Old Negress of Greene County, Georgia." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration

he house is definitely not a typical tenant farmer affair. The elaborate front door treatment and staircase say that this once once quite a house. The typical tenant farmers house would have been one story and 3 to 4 rooms. There would have been no ornamentation. Such a house might be recognizable to someone from that area. I hope we will learn more.

Not only is this a lady considerable dignity but, judging from the few architectural details visible, her home is far superior to the shacks and shanties that so predominate Lange's work during this period.

I suspect that, within the confines of the Jim Crow laws and practices prevalent at the time, she was a person of some standing in her community.

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Old house occupied by a Negro family, Penfield, Greene County, Georgia

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An ex-slave woman living near Woodville, Greene County, Georgia

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The home of Mary Sue Turner whose husband is a sawmill worker. Near Siloam, Greene County, Georgia

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Negro couple going to town on Saturday afternoon. Greene County, Georgia

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Negro tenant farmer and his wife living in an old mansion in southern Greene County, Georgia, 

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The old Armour plantation home now occupied by a Negro tenant family. Greene County, Georgia

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Mrs. Mary Sue Turner, wife of sawmill worker, with some of the new furniture they have bought. Near Siloam, Greene County, Georgia

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Young women and girls, some holding suitcases and folded blankets, standing on stairs in between buildings. Teenie Harris, photographer. Courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.

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c. 1940-1945