The Found Photo Guy

Jun 03

This photograph, gorgeous in its’ tragic sadness, depicts a lone black woman in a bonnet standing near a slave pen, a structure used by slave dealers to hold enslaved people temporarily before they were moved futher south for sale.

Taken in Alexandria, Virginia

Derived from a glass negative.

“Rex Theatre For Colored People”

Leland, Mississippi

June 1937

Photographer: Dorothy Lange

Photographers working for the Farm Security Administration Historical Section were encouraged to document continuity and change in many aspects of life in America They were particularly encouraged to photograph billboards and signs as one indicator of such developments, and that search produced haunting photographs of signs enforcing racial discrimination.