Medium
black-and-white photographs
cyanotypes (photographic prints)
photographs
visual works
Creator
Irick, Vincent A., Moore, Jacob Ridgeway
Date of Original
1890/1910
Subject
African Americans--Clothing--Georgia--Faceville
African American families--Georgia--Faceville
African American children--Georgia--Faceville
African Americans--Housing--Georgia--Faceville
African American agricultural laborers--Georgia--Faceville
Agriculture--Georgia--Faceville
Irick, Vincent A.
Spencer, Judge.
Location
United States, Georgia, Decatur County, Faceville, 30.753247, -84.6399159
Description
The collection provides excellent documentation of African Americans in rural Georgia and Florida, and is composed of 90 black and white and cyanotype photographs. Featured are scenes of Spencer's farm and farm activities, and images of Irick's friends and family.
In 1899, photographer Jacob Ridgeway Moore documented sharecroppers and the farm they worked which belonged to Judge Spencer. The farm was located on Attapulgus Road just outside of Faceville Georgia, in Decatur County, near the Florida state border. Spencer's farm included turpentine production, as well as a sawmill, gristmill, and cane mill production facilities.
The bulk of the collection consists of images of African-Americans who lived and worked on the farm, including many depictions of children. The majority of the photographs are in excellent condition; the cyanotypes in particular are of exceptional quality and are excellent examples of that photographic process. Some of the loose photographs and many of the mounted images are identified, captioned, or dated on the verso, by Vincent Irick using Moore's journal entries as guides. The remaining images in the collection were taken by Moore's nephew Vincent M. Irick. These images are of Vincent's friends and family and various locations around their homes. Most of these images were taken in Vincent's home town of Vincentown, New Jersey.
