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Comments on MetaFilter post The African American Experience in PhotographsFri, 22 Feb 2008 17:45:49 -0800Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:45:49 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The African American Experience in Photographs
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Missouri's <a href="http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/digital/browse.asp?coll=African%20American%20Portrait%20Collection&proc=browse&offset=0">digital archives </a>of African American portraits. African American <a href="http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/photo_exhibits/harper.cfm">portraits</a> from Florida's archives. The <a href="http://www.blackarchives.org/faceted_search/results/na/extract/relevance/na/taxonomy%3A117">Black Archives </a>of Mid-America. Missouri's <a href="http://www.virtuallymissouri.org/vmdigcoll.aspx">archives</a>, with a specific section for the <a href="http://digital.hannibal.lib.mo.us/">African American community</a> in northeast Missouri. <br /><br /><a href="http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf7p3006fv&chunk.id=dsc-1.3.9&brand=oac">Cased photos</a> from California. <a href="http://haldigitalcollections.cdmhost.com/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fp4006coll3">Civil War soldiers</a> from Michigan. Just for <a href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?keyword1=Donahey,%20William%20:%20Papers,%201914%20-%201970&search_field1=collection_name&search_type=advanced&sort_by=date&boolean_type1=and&boolean_type2=and">fun.</a>post:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:38:16 -0800winnaAfricanAmericanhistoryphotographsdaguerreotypeportraitsBy: dersins
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This is a fucking excellent post. Thank you.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022711Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:45:49 -0800dersinsBy: winna
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Thank you!
I did forget to mention - when you are in the Missouri archives you can resize the portraits by resizing the window.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022713Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:48:27 -0800winnaBy: languagehat
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I thought your username was familiar—you made that great <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/67002/Photos-of-Glasgow">post </a>about Glasgow. This is great too. Post more often!comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022720Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:59:54 -0800languagehatBy: snsranch
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Seconding fucking excellent post. Fascinating and beautiful stuff. I thank you too!comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022722Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:00:12 -0800snsranchBy: flapjax at midnite
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Oh yes.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022724Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:01:34 -0800flapjax at midniteBy: fixedgear
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Wisconsin, thanks!comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022732Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:23:00 -0800fixedgearBy: LarryC
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Wonderful! What a contrast these portraits make to the racist depictions of blacks in the popular press at this same time.
Thanks for an excellent post.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022741Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:42:11 -0800LarryCBy: Powerful Religious Baby
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OH DAMN <a href="http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/harper/ha00227.jpg">Nellie Franklin</a> just stepped straight out of a bandbox! Thanks for the links, winna--is it just me, or has today been a really great day for posts?comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022749Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:54:40 -0800Powerful Religious BabyBy: sourwookie
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I see some iPhone wallpapers in there.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022835Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:45:23 -0800sourwookieBy: nickyskye
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Really beautiful photographs.
Adding this link to the vintage and antique African American photographs: <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/prs-tpic/af-amer/afam-usn.htm">African-Americans and the U.S. Navy</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022857Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:05:28 -0800nickyskyeBy: Guy Smiley
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From the files of the totally awesome smorgasbord of midcentury found photos website <a href="http://www.squareamerica.com/">Square America</a>: <a href="http://www.squareamerica.com/af.htm"><i>African-American Snapshots and Portraits</i></a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022880Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:35:27 -0800Guy SmileyBy: LobsterMitten
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Good and yes.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022917Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:55:55 -0800LobsterMittenBy: kozad
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Wow. The glut of information available at a mouse-click is fantastic...using all archaic and modern definitions of the word.
Being from MO, it was especially cool. This WAS NOT in our high school library. Books could be written about the implications of <a href="http://www.sos.missouri.gov/archives/exhibits/Quest/politics/1890-1907.asp">this</a>, and probably have.
And thanks, Guy. Very cool!comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2022920Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:04:18 -0800kozadBy: DenOfSizer
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Some of those African American people in the MO link definitely look Native American, imo. Cool link, it's funny how despite all the old fashioned outfits how fresh and contemporary everyone looks. And the teeny weenies are beautifully drawn!comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2023101Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:24:28 -0800DenOfSizerBy: liza
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I can't believe nobody has included the extesive Black Americana digital archives of the <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?collection=AfricanaBlackHistory&col_id=147">New York Public Library</a>.
Here's the NYPL's <a href="http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</a> which has an amazing online exhibit about the African diaspora, <a href="http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm">The African-American Migration Experience</a>.
I not only stumbled upon it while researching images for <a href="http://cafe.culturekitchen.com/liza/blog_entry/my_black_puerto_rico">My Black Puerto Rico</a>, but I found a picture of my grandfather's cousin, Vicente Prats Sabater, who was the first member of our family to emigrate to the US mainland from Puerto Rico.
I put together the slideshow as a visual companion to <a href="http://www.culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/divide_and_conquer_obama_and_the_latino_vote_in_th">Divide and Conquer : Obama and the Latino Vote in the NY Times</a>, which seeks to tear a new one on anybody who dares to say that : (1) Latinos are devoid of African ancestry and thusly (2) would never vote for Barack Obama.
So here's a bit more of Latin American negritude than what you would have expected on a Saturday morning.
Enjoy!comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2023120Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:22:45 -0800lizaBy: liza
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@DenOfSizer
(1) Well, it's a myth that all hemispheric First Americans look a certain asiatic way and are just a reddish hue of brown. They came in all shades, look and sizes.
(2) Many runaway slaves ended up in native territories. In the Caribbean, cimarroons are considered indigenous Caribes. You have the Misquitos and Garifuna in Central America.
(3) You also have to account for the fact that Africa is extremely diverse and populations from the Northern part of the continent or from regions with high Arab influence are not going to look like the stereotypical black african that people think of when they think "slaves".
Yet, to take it one step further : Pure Blood is such a myth. Even <a href="http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/1077">Europeans</a> are a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3871159.stm">miscegenated</a> <a href="http://www.hinduwebsite.com/general/essays/celtic.asp">bunch</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2023127Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:46:12 -0800lizaBy: RedEmma
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Missouri was a place where a lot of Cherokees on the Trail of Tears (who inter-married in some places with blacks) fled the death march, hiding in the woods and finding a place there. It makes sense that they would have continued to inter-marry with blacks in Missouri.comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.69316-2023169Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:28:52 -0800RedEmma
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