Collection

Snapshots of Black Iowans in log homes, laundry, fishing

5 original photos, early 1900s, by the same photographer, 2 stamped on reverse, “POWELL YOUR PHOTOGRAPHER ALBIA, IOWA.”
These black and white photographs Black Americans in their daily life: hoeing, pumping well water into a bucket for cows, doing laundry, fishing, sweeping. One of the photos is backed as a postcard.
Albia is 9 miles south of Buxton, Iowa.

compare to photograph of white woman in front of log house in Albia, Iowa

Date

1910s

Location

Albia, Iowa

Source

POWELL, PHOTOGRAPHER, ALBIA, IOWA

Media Type

PhotographSnapshot