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Color guard of Negro engineers, Ft. Belvoir(?), [Va.] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Derick Snow said:
    It's incredible how well these photos have been preserved . These are all beautiful photographs considering they were taken at such low light.

Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene Co., Ga. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • bosetsu said:
    Just a few miles down the road from here. The land still looks much like this, but with more trees. It's odd to see such an old photo that (other than the horse and buggy) could've been taken yesterday on just about any rural road a few miles from here.
  • meateor said:
    It's a shame there are JPG compression artifacts on these photos. And maybe some unsharp mask artifacts as well? Hey government worker, wake up.
  • Dale Puch said:
    Check the Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33874 for the link to the original LOC page for this. From there you can get the 42MB TIFF if you really feel the quality of this isn't up to snuff.
  • dentist_tx said:
    Thank you so much for engaging the Library of Congress in the new age of photo sharing. It is much appreciated by this citizen and I'm sure by many others. The LOC is one of the few stops in Washington I have yet to visit, and this gives me a window into what I've been missing. I can't wait to see the real thing next time I'm in DC.
  • roderickbodine said:
    There is no sense of motion in the photo. The cart appears to be stopped. Perhaps for photographic reasons?

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from Smithsonian Institution

  • selective rose said:
    Jim Crow at Play: Race, Manliness, and the Color Line in American Sports, 1876-1916, a dissertation by Gregory Bond at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, includes some info on Cyrus Spottswood Shippen. The same year this photo was taken he was the second African-American to compete in the US Open, alongside his brother John who had been the first (in just the second US Open, in 1896). According to Bond, Cyrus Shippen went on to be "a long-time teacher at Washington, DC's famed Dunbar High School where he started a golf team". (Bond's discussion of the Shippens and the color line in the USGA is mostly on pp. 217-220.) Cyrus is also discussed a bit in this interview with Hanno Shippen Smith, grandson of John Shippen (which I think would make him grand-nephew of Cyrus?).
  • Smithsonian Institution said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/32573662@N00] This is pretty amazing, severinus. Really enjoyed that interview. Thank you for adding this information! Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives