americana

I love the look on that girl's face!

kizlar grubu diye ben buna derim,,, kutuphanenize cok tesekkur ederiz bu tarihi fotograflari bizlerle paylastiginiz icin emegi gecen herkesin eline saglik

almost looks like a movie set: how clean cut they all are!

it is amazing to see photos from this era in color! IT does look like a movie set~!

My wife commented on how the girls are probably wearing homemade dresses. She's very jealous.

Belle Glade, Florida

probably they worked on sugar plantations?

From Random House: "Juke joint (or jook joint) is the vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring blues music, dancing, and alcoholic drinks, primarily operated by African American people in the southeastern United States. The term "juke" is believed to derive from the Gullah word joog, meaning rowdy or disorderly."

Great total picture! Very nice! The framing and composition of your photo are very good! Please add this nice photo to:

(Composition First)

Reminds me of the bunkhouse in "Of Mice and Men"

is it necessary to label the photo "Negro boy" surly "boy" will do or if needed to make reference to his race for historical context surly African American. just like to point out that i am not PC mad just thought this title was a little odd. after all this guy is probably alive wonder what he would think to being called "Negro boy"

I guess it must be the original title, or the agency caption as mentioned above. I don't see anything wrong in keeping that title, it reminds us of the mindset of some people in that time and it could even be an anti-racist statement.

I Like the photo but not the tittle.

yes but the title is part of the times the image was taken in
therefore the title itself has a historical context.

it might not be nice or acceptable context, but to change the title as given by the original photographer, changes history. Essentially whitewashing the past.

The titles are all drawn from the original descriptions of the photos - if you browse around on the Library of Congress's American Memory project you'll see a lot of outdated terms sometimes, but that's the way people talked back then. This is part of why they need help from people tagging pictures - we look for pictures using different words than the photographers or librarians back then would have used.