vachon

This is a very powerful image that makes me want to know more about his story. He looks a bit like a ghost. I wonder how long he lived.

You can read about Carbon Black here: carbon-black.org/what_is.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_black www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/doc1.html

o.o Wow... speechless.

Stark

Awesome

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of the photos - if you browse around on the Library of Congress's American Memory project you'll see a lot of outdated terms sometimes, but that's the way people talked back then.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.

This Texas town and county are both "San Augustine" not "Saint." The tags need to be updated.

@leftymama: Update them, then? ;)

Man, look at French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa. I also see the Belgian Congo and the Union of South Africa. I love seeing old maps like this

Same little girl as the previous picture, the inoculation one?

The inoculation was before geography class.