Black History | Musicians in New Iberia, Louisiana

Original Title: Negro musicians playing accordion and washboard in automobile, near New Iberia, Louisiana
Photographer: Russell Lee
Date: October 1938

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Cotton Picking Day Laborers

Day Laborers Waiting to be Paid for Cotton Picking

Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
Date: October, 1939

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"Colored" Water Fountain - Old Russell Lee Picture

Original Title: Negro drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal
Photographer: Russell Lee
Date: July, 1939

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Medicine Show, Strange 1935 Picture

Medicine Show Performer by Ben Shahn in 1935, is an odd image of an African American man in black face preparing for a medicine show in Huntingdon, Tennessee.

Argent Editions is always on the lookout for odd and wonderful pictures from the American past. We're not sure what to make if this one except to say that it's eye-catching but a little peculiar.

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The new Argent Editions site has launched. There are about fifty photographs in six collections.

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Black History Photographs

The addition of Black History photographs has begun. The first set of pictures includes Civil War era photographs and 1930s portraits of former slaves. The next group will include more images from W.E.B Du Bois' 1900 Paris exhibition.