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Title
African
American
ex-slave
portrait
,
Charles
Green
Subject
Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Federal Writers' Project.
African Americans -- Photographs
African American women -- Ohio -- Photographs
African American Ohioans
Slavery
Freedmen
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Springfield (Ohio)
Clark County (Ohio)
Description
Reverse
reads
: "
Charles
Green
,
231
Buxton
,
Springfield
,
Ohio
.
Ex-slave
picture.
" This
is
a
photograph
of
Charles
Green
, an
ex-slave
who
lived
at
231
Buxton
in
Springfield
,
Ohio
. He
is
photographed
standing
on the
porch
of his
home
. 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
.
Creator
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Collection
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
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
SA1039AV_B13F05_008_001.tif
Image Height
2056
Image Width
2130
File Size
13148624 Bytes
Display File Type
image/jp2
Format
picture
Date created
2011-05-25
Date modified
2011-05-25
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