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Robert E. Williams photographic collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898

Late-nineteenth-century photographs of Augusta-area African American people, places, agriculture, family life, and more.

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Creator
Williams, Robert E., d. 1937

Date of Original
1872/1898

Subject
African American photographers--Georgia
African Americans--Social life and customs--19th century--Photographs
African Americans--Housing--Georgia--19th century--Photographs
African American children--Georgia--19th century--Photographs
African Americans--Georgia--Religion--19th century--Photographs
Baptism--Photographs
Cotton picking--Georgia--Photographs
Carriages and carts--Georgia--Photographs

Location
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484

Medium
black-and-white photographs
portraits

Type
Still Image

Description
Robert E. Williams (d. 1937), an African-American Photographer, operated a photography studio, R. Williams and Son, in Augusta, Georgia, from 1888 until around 1908. The digitized collection consists of images of 84 glass plate negatives and positive prints of African-Americans in the Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia area. The photographs depict dwellings and domestic chores, rituals of baptism, harvesting and transporting cotton, vehicles and transportation, and children and family life.
Title from title screen.
Document digitized by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2000, as part of GALILEO.

Metadata URL
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zlrw

Original Collection
Robert E. Williams photographs, 1872-1898, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Holding Institution
Hargrett Library

Rights

1. Harvest for the Lord

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

2. [Photograph of a boy on the back of a donkey in front of a house in or near Richmond County, Georgia, late 19th century]

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

3. [Photograph of a crowd of African American children in front of a wood house in or near Richmond County, Georgia, late 19th century]

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

4. [Photograph of a crowd of African Americans engaged in baptism by a river in or near Richmond County, Georgia, late 19th century]

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

5. [Photograph of African American children posed with a toy wagon in front of a fence in or near Richmond County, Georgia, late 19th century]

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

6. [Photograph of African American couple in front of woooden house with open door in or near Richmond County, Ga., in late 19th century]

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

7. [Photograph of African American male youth sitting jauntily on a box while his companion on the floor, another African American male youth, eyes him angrily]

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

8. [Photograph of African American man sitting in horse-drawn wagon with cotton bales in front of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Augusta, Ga.]

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

9. [Photograph of African American man sitting on a wagon in front of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in late 19th-century Augusta, Georgia]

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

10. [Photograph of African American men on chain gang digging ditches while three white guards look on in distance]

Creator:: Williams, Robert E., d. 1937
Date of Original:: 1872/1898
Collection:: Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.), circa 1872-1898
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

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