Kicha's photos

Formal portrait of an unknown young African American woman taken at the Devinney Studio in Moberly, Missouri. Missouri State Archives

Portrait of an unknown African American young woman. Ontario Library

A circa 1890 portrait of an unknown African American young woman. [ Hugh Mangum Photographs Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University ]

Beautiful portrait of a woman identified as Miss Clinton. C.M. Bell, photographer; C.M. Bell Studio Collection (Library of Congress)

Portrait of an African American young woman dressed in the latest fashions of the day. She is identified as Irene Hill. Calvert Brothers Studio, Nashville, Tennessee; Tennessee State Library and Archives

Tintype of an unknown African American woman. Images from this time frame depicting African Americans reading/holding a book was a way of showing they were able to read. Source: African American Vernacular Photography Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection

Portrait of a beautiful African American woman. Name unknown. Virginia Historical Society; Courtesy of Lucy Norris

Lovely portrait of a young African American woman identified as Nellie Brown. Taken circa 1890s by Joseph Pennell in Junction City, Kansas. Pennell Photography Collection/Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

Portrait of an unknown African American woman possibly in mourning. Source: A Saga of the Black Woman by Rosetta Lucas Quisenberry

Beautiful portrait of a lovely lady in a butterfly dress. Name unknown. African American Vernacular Photography; Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection

Portrait of a woman identified as Aunt Julia ... back reads, 'To the McCrorey children from Aunt Julia, Xmas 1912." [ A. O. & Dorothy Steele Collection ]

Beautiful portrait of a young African American woman identified as Mrs. Aldrich. Photographed circa 1902 by Joseph J. Pennell in Junction City, Kansas. Sources: Pennell Photography Collection/Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

Wife of Shadrick Johnson and mother of Cornelius Cooper Johnson, an Olympic gold medalist in the High Jump in 1936. Pearl Cooper Johnson was also chosen to ride in the Los Angeles Fiesta de Los Angeles parade in 1900 on a float submitted by the California Eagle newspaper which was a black owned Los Angeles based newspaper originally founded as The Owl in 1879 by John J. Neimore. UCLA Collections/Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection (circa 1895) photographer unknown

She was the first African American child on record born in the Wyoming Territory. Her family's affluence is apparent in her clothing and the accessories of the household that surround her in this picture, thought to have been taken in the 1890s. Edgar D. Meyers, Photographer. Wyoming State Archives, Wyoming Division of Cultural Resources

This tintype was in the possession of Iris Sloman Bell, of St. Catharines, Ontario. Relatives of the Bell - Sloman families are former slaves from the United States who settled in Canada. [ Brock University Digi Archives ]

An unknown African American young woman poses for her formal portrait at the J.A. Thomason Studio in Louisiana, Missouri. [ Missouri State Museum ]

Formal portrait of an unknown African American young woman. Locale and photographer unknown. [swanngalleries]

Two attractive fashionably dressed ladies. Names and locale unknown. John W Mosley, Photographer Charles L Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University