THE WAY WE WERE - THE BLACK VICTORIANS | 1898
Formal portrait of African American woman of the Victorian Age (1890s).
BOARDING HOUSE BLUES | 1948
Vintage African American “Race” Movie Poster
Directed by Josh Binney and featuring an all-black cast headed by the Moms Mabley. Because films like this were aimed specifically at segregated inner-city black audiences, they were treated like disposable product by the studios, which offered them a surprising amount of leeway in terms of material. Drug jokes and sexual innuendos, which would surely have been censored in mainstream films in 1948, rub elbows with some truly bizarre novelty acts
THE BLACK VICTORIANS
Name unknown. Hugh Mangum Photographs Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University (circa 1900s)
The Black Jean Harlow | 1921
Portrait of an African American vaudeville entertainer, name unknown, sporting a platinum blonde wig. Circa 1921. African American Vernacular Photography courtesy of Black History Album.
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