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The William Cooper family of Williamsburg County, photographed outside their home near Hemingway. A tobacco farmer, William "Yankee" Cooper owned about a hundred acres of land on which he supported...
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The unidentified woman in this portrait had her photo made in two ways: with her maid's uniform, and with her jewelry. She illustrates well the two separate roles that many African-American women...
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An important event at the Penn School was the annual Baby Fair, sponsored by the school as a way to encourage good nutrition and other health practices for children of St. Helena's Island. This...
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Mitchell Holloway is identified in this 1912 photograph as an "ex-slave of Boozer's." Courtesy of the Lexington County Museum.
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The family of photographer Walter L. Blanchard sitting in their Columbia dining room, around 1920. Photo by Blanchard. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The Conyers family of Maple Mills, in Dillon: Father A.L. Conyers in the doorway, Mrs. Conyers, Llewlyn, Bessie, Ramsey, Sammie and Andres. All of the family except Mrs. Conyers worked in the mill...
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Miss Sedgewick and her house servants pose outside her home in the Winter Colony of Aiken in 1896. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Three generations of African-American men pose in front of their cabin in the Welsh Neck area in 1904. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.
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A group of women with their infants in front of a row of slave cabins on a plantation in the Beaufort Area. Hubbard and Mix photograph from about 1865. From the Penn School Collection. Permission...
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Katherine Osman Wilson traveled to Charleston to see her husband, and was photographed there in a companion portrait to his in 1861 (see Original Daguerreotype Of George Wilson). From Horace Harmon...