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Title
African
American
ex-slave
portrait
,
Charles
Green
Subject
African Americans -- Photographs
African American men--Ohio
African American Ohioans
Slavery
Freedmen -- Ohio
Time Period
1930s
Place
Springfield
(Ohio)
;
Clark
County
(Ohio)
Description
Photograph
of
Charles
Green
, an
ex-slave
who
lived
at
231
Buxton
Avenue
in
Springfield
,
Clark
County
,
Ohio
,
District
1
. The
photo
is
from the
African
American
Small
Picture
Collection
,
SC
1495
. The
photographs
were
taken
by
staff
of the
Federal
Writers
'
Project
of the
Works
Progress
Administration
(WPA)
. The
Federal
Writers
'
Project
(FWP)
was a
United
States
federal
government
project
to
fund
written
work
and
support
writers
during
the
Great
Depression
. On
April
1
,
1937
, the
FWP
received
formal
approval
and
instructions
to
conduct
interviews
of
surviving
ex-slaves
in
Ohio
.
Most
of the
narratives
were
compiled
in
1937
and
1938
and
gathered
from
around
the
state
.
After
the
termination
of the
Federal
Writer's
Project
,
most
narratives
were
transferred
to the
Writers
'
Unit
of the
Library
of
Congress
.
However
, an
additional
twenty-eight
narratives
were
discovered
in the
State
Archives
holdings
. The
collection
contains
a
photo
of
three
"
very
efficient
members
of the
WPA
group
on
project
of The
Ohio
State
Archaeological
and
Historical
Society
,
1936-1937
:
B[sic.]
Williams
,
Carl
G
.
Beason
, and
Margaret
Clark
Oakfield
". There are also
portraits
of
male
and
female
ex-slaves
of
Springfield
,
Ohio
and
Youngstown
,
Ohio
; the
backs
of the
photographs
contain
street
addresses
,
county
names
and
district
numbers
of
each
of the
former
slaves
'
residences
.
Creator
Writers
'
Program
(Ohio)
Date of Original
1937
Collection
New
Deal
Source
SC
1495
Submitting Institution
Ohio
Historical
Society
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
sc1495_09_01.tif
Digitization Information
1200
dpi
Image Height
4313
Image Width
4194
File Size
54291992 Bytes
Format
picture
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