Bringing History Home

William Biggars, 1916. The Holsinger Studio Collection, X4399A, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/holsinger/)

C.S. Allen, 1918. The Holsinger Studio Collection, X6630A, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/holsinger/)

Chammie Allen, 1917. The Holsinger Studio Collection, X5323A, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/holsinger/)

Sisters of the Holy Family, New Orleans, La. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 – elementary school students exercise. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

Negro homes – homes of poorer classes, Chattanooga, Tenn. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

[African Americans, mostly women] assorting tobacco at the T.B. Williams Tobacco Co., Richmond, Virginia. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

[Company D, 8th Battalion, Illinois Volunteer Regiment]. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

[African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia]. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

[Interior view of “Dr. McDougald’s Drug Store”]. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

[Portrait group of African American Bricklayers union, Jacksonville, Florida]. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

[Portrait group of African American Carpenters union, Jacksonville, Florida]. Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

Harmony Community, Putnam County, Georgia.... The Jefferson Baptist Church is the heart of the Negro community. Preaching services are held once a month and Sunday School services every Sunday. There are also prayer meetings on Saturday that are attended only by adults and older children. Every year in August the church holds a week of prayer meetings followed by a week of preaching, and on these occasions people who have left the community make every effort to come home again, even from great distances. However, the older men feel that interest in the church and in religion is considerably less at the present than it was a generation ago, 1941. US National Archives & Records Administration, Item from Record Group 83: Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1876 - 1959 [electronic resource].