Our 20th Century African American Photograph archive features family photographs, African American communities, and African Businesses from 1900 to 1970.
Copy or portrait of James Dawson, Sr., United States Colored Troop Veteran. 33rd Regiment/1st South Carolina from Beaufort, South Carolina. Caption states that Mr. Dawson was married to Judy and then Sophia and had 13 children. He was the great-grandfather of Lottie Williams Brown, the grandfather of Regina Irene Dawson.
Full-length portrait of Joseph C. Sheffey wearing his jockey uniform.
Full-length portrait of Joseph C. Sheffey (25 September 1881-8 February 1959), the son of Daniel Henry Sheffey, Jr. (1844-1914) and Jane A. White (1860-1912), was born on 25 September 1881.
He married was married to Nannie E. Buford, and later, to Susan "Susie" Julia Roane.
Joseph C. Sheffey was a professional African American jockey in his young adulthood. He is pictured here wearing his winter jockey silks. He was known to have jockeyed in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and New Jersey. While he lived in Virginia, New Jersey and New York over the course of his life, he passed in 1959 in his native Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia, United States
A copy of a framed portrait of Joseph P. Sumter (~1848-1920). He was born, raised, and died in Sumter County, South Carolina, and also served in 104th USCT.
The photograph belonged to Mary Louise Burgess Ghee (1924-2014) who was born and raised in Sumter, South Carolina. She spent the last 60 years of her life in New York City.
Portrait of Mildred Evelyn Simmons Adamson.
Mildred was born 14 November 1930 in Charleston, South Carolina. She and her husband, Frank Adamson, lived in New York and Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Photograph of Pauline Matthews and Joseph Thurman Turner in front of building.
Pauline Matthews (25 October 1912-1989), born in Edgefield County, South Carolina was the great-granddaughter of Lewis Matthews. She married Joseph Thurman Turner (10 March 1910-2004) of Washington, DC.
