These are beautiful photographs which I wish I could see in person. I hope to see them at the Smithsonian American Art Museum one day! READ MORE
Unidentified artist, “Untitled (woman with hair ribbon),” ambrotype. “We see beauty, we see fashion,” said Deborah Willis, the historian and scholar of African American photographic history. “We see these multidimensional experiences of Black men and women during that time period.”Credit...Smithsonian American Art Museum (left) Unidentified artist, “Untitled (man with vest and jacket),” daguerreotype, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the L. J. West Collection of Early American Photography.Credit...Smithsonian American Art Museum (right)