Our 20th Century African American Photograph archive features family photographs, African American communities, and African Businesses from 1900 to 1970.
Copy of portrait of Sarah Carter Richardson, hand-colored.
Sarah Richardson (~1831-unknown) was the widow of Mark Richardson, Sr. who was born about 1840 in South Carolina. She and many of her immediate family left South Carolina for Florida after the death of her husband Mark.
Sarah worked as a midwife. She had moved from South Carolina to Fort McCoy, Marion County, Florida with her twin sons Mark and Matthew, as well as two of her grandchildren Arthur and Esther Richardson. Her son Robert, his wife Martha, and their three children. Her only daughter and son-in-law also moved with Sarah to Florida.
Colorized by John Smith
Full-length portrait of Thelma Berry and O. C. Richardson.
Thelma and O. C. Richardson were the parents of William and Hutchinson Richardson. This is the only known photograph of O.C. Richardson. O.C. Richardson was kidnapped and later died being held in a chain gang in Alabama after the birth of his second son.
