A new collection of family portraits from the early 1900s offers a glimpse into the lives of African American families in the era immediately after Civil War reconstruction.
Virginia-born coachman Thomas A. Dillon and his wife, Margaret, native of Newton, MA, pose in the parlor of their home at 4 Dewey Street with children Thomas, Margaret, and Mary in 1904.
(left) Lillian, Luvenia, and Cora Ward were the daughters of William H. and Arries Ann Ward. (right) Richard and Mary Elizabeth Ward Wilson in 1902.
Portrait of Raymond Schuyler and his children, Ethel, Stephen, Beatrice and Dorothea, in about 1904.
James J. Johnson, of Narragansett, RI and Jennie Bradley Johnson, a migrant from Charleston, SC, pose with their daughters Jennie and May in 1900.
