Photo Collection Honors 1900s Black Nebraska Communities
As a part of Black History Month, California State University, Chico, Calif., currently holds a photo exhibition featuring a series of black-and-white photographs taken in Lincoln, Neb., between 1910 and 1925.
Titled Black and White in Black and White, the exhibit presents a series of photos that were scanned and printed from glass-plate negatives. The pictures are part of Douglas Keister’s collection of glass plate negatives, 1910–1925, and are on display for the first time publicly until Feb. 24, in the university’s Humanities Center Gallery.
Courtesy of California State University, Chico Performing Arts Center
In the beginning of February, the new African American Museum at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., expressed interest in acquiring 30 to 50 of the images. “This is a very big deal and validates the images as a major part of African-American history in America,” Keister wrote in an email.
The photographer was unknown for some time. Based on similar photographs and written records, he was later identified as John Johnson from Lincoln, a black laborer who also listed himself as a photographer.
See online exhibit at: Black&White in Black&White
Article by Fae Frazier Price
Published by: The Epoch Times, February 19, 2012
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