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Love-Thornell Collection of Black American Photographs, Circa 1850-1950 43 Boxes 39 Photograph Binder Boxes 1 Hollinger Box 2 Oversize Print Boxes 1 Box (irregular size) 13 Books

 

The Love-Thornell Collection of Black American Photographs contains over 1300 photographs including cabinet cards, tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, stereotypes, cartes de visite and postcards documenting Black American life from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Jaquelyn Love-Thornell collected the photographs over a 15-year period.

  1. AARLCC Special Collections

Stereographs, 1871-1909

 

The Stereograph series contains 1 stereoscope viewer and 82 stereograph cards dating from 1871 to 1909 that depict Black Americans. Several of the cards have images of people at working at jobs such as collecting turpentine, loading sea vessels, showing livestock at expositions, and harvesting cotton, rice, sugar cane, pineapples and coconuts. One of the most popular genres of stereographs in the 19th and early 20th century were humorous posed views; many of the pictures in this collection from that genre are representations of derogatory stereotypes. Publishers of the stereographs include Strohmeyer and Wyman, Underwood and Underwood, and T. W. Ingersoil. The stereographs are arranged alphabetically by publisher, and then the stereographs without publishers are arranged by the original inventory number.

  1. AARLCC Special Collections
  2. Edward Marion Collection, Undetermined