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