African American construction workers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
African American visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS68
Scope and Content
This collection contains various types of visual images, including photographs, lithoghraphs, posters, and prints from periodicals, pertaining to African Americans. Included in the collection are stereotypical racist pictures and postcards; photographs of African Americans working as domestics, agricultural laborers, musicians, streetcar conductors, etc.; portraits of African American women, men, and children; prints depicting significant events, such as the Fort Pillow Massacre and the...
Dates:
1860-1957, undated
Atlanta Transit System, Inc. photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS507
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images from a photo album of Atlanta Transit System construction scenes around Atlanta, Georgia. Included are scenes of workers (primarily African American workers) constructing trolley lines in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Also included are unidentified street scenes, trolley cars, rail bridges, and an unidentified mill in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dates:
approximately 1890-1920
Meredith Zara photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS61
Scope and Content
This collection contains two prints depicting unidentified African American laborers involved in construction work on Alabama Street, between Pryor Street and Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early twentieth century. The other image is of the exterior of the Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, which is now Ford Motor Lofts.
Dates:
1900-1930