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ohlookhistory:

would love to know the source for these!

I loved these so much that I spent some time in the NYPL archives to dig up more details.  The West Indian Flower Girl is from April, 1810.   Here’s the link to a big version of that one: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=600974&imageID=1248946&total=128&num=0&word=west%20india&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&imgs=20&pos=14&e=w

My cursory search didn’t find the other one, but I found another one which I like even better: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=600973&imageID=1248945&total=4&num=0&word=21359&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=13&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=Name&sLevel=&sLabel=Brunias%2C%20Agostino&imgs=20&pos=2&e=w

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imagn: I absolutely cannot wait to see the George Lucas film Red Tails!  I’m so proud of my heritage (The photo is of Cornelius Porter (deceased) - my father’s father). Here’s the trailer: Red Tails I grew up about 25 miles from Tuskegee, AL and it is a remarkable place full of remarkable history.  Unfortunately Sharpe Field, the airfield of the Tuskegee Airmen is is TERRIBLE disrepair, something I have always thought was tragic.  I’m hoping the release of this film will spur some action that will save the airfield and honor the amazing men (like this one!) who served there!  (Also- what a hottie, huh?!)

imagn:

I absolutely cannot wait to see the George Lucas film Red Tails!  I’m so proud of my heritage (The photo is of Cornelius Porter (deceased) - my father’s father).

Here’s the trailer: Red Tails

I grew up about 25 miles from Tuskegee, AL and it is a remarkable place full of remarkable history.  Unfortunately Sharpe Field, the airfield of the Tuskegee Airmen is is TERRIBLE disrepair, something I have always thought was tragic.  I’m hoping the release of this film will spur some action that will save the airfield and honor the amazing men (like this one!) who served there! 

(Also- what a hottie, huh?!)

(Source: imagn)

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oldrags: Portrait of Betsy by Franz “François” Fleischbein, 1837 New Orleans American portraits of black and mixed race men and women were more often than not made in New Orleans, if what I’ve noticed is correct.  This is probably because in 1804, while slavery was still allowed even in the north, the Creoles of New Orleans were welcoming (or at least allowing) refugees of the Haitian Revolution.  City and state officials thought that Louisiana had more than enough “free persons of color”, but the Creoles wanted a bigger population of French-speakers so that they could remain the majority.  Soon, New Orleans had the largest number of free blacks in the South.  I don’t know anything about how relations were between the races, but I’m assuming that there had to have been some respect for each other, especially because they were united in their fight against the invasion of the terrible German and Irish immigrants who didn’t speak French. This is one of the lovliest portraits I have ever seen, and not just because of that slammin’ turban!  She is so lovely and captivating!

oldrags:

Portrait of Betsy by Franz “François” Fleischbein, 1837 New Orleans

American portraits of black and mixed race men and women were more often than not made in New Orleans, if what I’ve noticed is correct.  This is probably because in 1804, while slavery was still allowed even in the north, the Creoles of New Orleans were welcoming (or at least allowing) refugees of the Haitian Revolution.  City and state officials thought that Louisiana had more than enough “free persons of color”, but the Creoles wanted a bigger population of French-speakers so that they could remain the majority.  Soon, New Orleans had the largest number of free blacks in the South.  I don’t know anything about how relations were between the races, but I’m assuming that there had to have been some respect for each other, especially because they were united in their fight against the invasion of the terrible German and Irish immigrants who didn’t speak French.

This is one of the lovliest portraits I have ever seen, and not just because of that slammin’ turban!  She is so lovely and captivating!

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historyofbarbados: From The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in Americas database. Engraving is from 1796. Description from that site: Engraving of Pringle at the age of about 36 sitting in front of her hotel/tavern/house of prostitution in Bridgetown, capital of Barbados; man on left has elephantiasis. Rachel Pringle was born a slave around 1753, the daughter of an African woman and her master, a Scottish schoolmaster. In the 1770s, she became the first free woman of color to own a hotel-tavern (and house of prostitution) in Barbados; when she died in 1792, at the age of 38, she was a relatively wealthy woman. See Jerome S. Handler, Joseph Rachell and Rachael Pringle-Polgreen: Petty Entrepreneurs, in D.G. Sweet and G. B. Nash, eds., Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (Univ. of California Press, 1981), pp. 376-391. Slide of engraving, courtesy of the late Neville Connell, Director of the Barbados Museum.) I saw this image of Pringle multiple times in the few weeks I was in Barbados. I love it. What a fascinating image!

historyofbarbados:

From The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in Americas database.

Engraving is from 1796.

Description from that site:

Engraving of Pringle at the age of about 36 sitting in front of her hotel/tavern/house of prostitution in Bridgetown, capital of Barbados; man on left has elephantiasis. Rachel Pringle was born a slave around 1753, the daughter of an African woman and her master, a Scottish schoolmaster. In the 1770s, she became the first free woman of color to own a hotel-tavern (and house of prostitution) in Barbados; when she died in 1792, at the age of 38, she was a relatively wealthy woman. See Jerome S. Handler, Joseph Rachell and Rachael Pringle-Polgreen: Petty Entrepreneurs, in D.G. Sweet and G. B. Nash, eds., Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (Univ. of California Press, 1981), pp. 376-391. Slide of engraving, courtesy of the late Neville Connell, Director of the Barbados Museum.)

I saw this image of Pringle multiple times in the few weeks I was in Barbados. I love it.

What a fascinating image!

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auntada: Studio portrait of Mrs. Fannie Hendricks in formal dress. Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Charles Van Schaick, photographer ca. 1893 The 1880 Census lists Mrs. Hendricks as the 24-year-old “mulatto” wife of William W. Hendricks. The couple lived in Jackson County, Wisconsin and at the time of the census, they had three children, Clark (7), Nona (5) and a baby (1). What a beautiful portrait!  She looks so regal and lovely!

auntada:

Studio portrait of Mrs. Fannie Hendricks in formal dress. Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

Charles Van Schaick, photographer

ca. 1893

The 1880 Census lists Mrs. Hendricks as the 24-year-old “mulatto” wife of William W. Hendricks. The couple lived in Jackson County, Wisconsin and at the time of the census, they had three children, Clark (7), Nona (5) and a baby (1).

What a beautiful portrait!  She looks so regal and lovely!

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auntada: Isaac Burns Murphy (April 16, 1861 - February 12, 1896) was the first jockey to win 3 Kentucky Derby races: “Buchanan” in 1884, “Riley” in 1890, and “Kingman” in 1891. “Kingman” was owned and trained by Dudley Allen, the only horse owned by an African American to ever win the Derby. Murphy is considered one of the best jockeys who ever lived. Photo: Dated 1885. J.H. Fenton, photographer. Remarkable social history aside, how charming is that jockey cap?  I want one!

auntada:

Isaac Burns Murphy (April 16, 1861 - February 12, 1896) was the first jockey to win 3 Kentucky Derby races: “Buchanan” in 1884, “Riley” in 1890, and “Kingman” in 1891. “Kingman” was owned and trained by Dudley Allen, the only horse owned by an African American to ever win the Derby.

Murphy is considered one of the best jockeys who ever lived.

Photo: Dated 1885. J.H. Fenton, photographer.

Remarkable social history aside, how charming is that jockey cap?  I want one!

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