Tougaloo, Mississippi – Two women, “Aunt Daphne” and “Aunt Rachel”

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16207115

Description

Title: Tougaloo, Mississippi – Two women, “Aunt Daphne” and “Aunt Rachel”
Creator: From the Collection: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Contributor: From the Collection: Johnson, Grace Nail, 1885-1976
From the Collection: Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created: 1892
Description: As described in an accompanying note by Zora Neale Hurston, the photograph was taken in Hinds County, Tougaloo, Mississippi, by a teacher at Tougaloo University: “Aunt Daphne (left) and Aunt Rachel, were born and raised on the plantation and were believed to have been nearly 100 years old when the picture was made. This cabin in which they lived was the last of the original slave cabins on the place.”
Provenance: Acquired from various sources beginning in 1941. Sources include Carl Van Vechten, Grace Nail Johnson, and Langston Hughes.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 76

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Container / Volume

Box 22, folder 342

Access: Public
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Citation: Photographs of Prominent African Americans. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.