African American Families Photograph Scrapbook

MS919

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Biographical and Historical Note

The scrapbook contains a few clues about its historical origins. Locations pictured include Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia; Mount Zion Baptist Church, likely the Mount Zion in Winston-Salem; Sampson Air Force Base next to Seneca Lake, N.Y.; St. Paul Baptist Church in Gastonia, N.C.; and the United Usher Chorus of High Point (N.C.).

Collection Overview

This collection contains a photograph scrapbook and items from the scrapbook. The family or families documented in the scrapbook are unknown at this time. Some individuals in the photographs are identified with handwriting on the image or on its reverse. Two printed items are included: an image of Winston-Salem State University founder and first president S. G. Atkins and an image of the Mount Zion Baptist Church Boy Scout troop 1942-1943. A small number of photo postcards from the Hampton Institute are also in the scrapbook.

People identified by name or partial name include: Bundy, Campbell, Jake Ballard, Anna Bell (or Annabell), Winston-Salem State University founder and inaugural president S. G. Atkins (Simon Green Atkins), Precious Foster, Cheek, Smith, Gertrude Dixon, and Sassner.

Scrapbook paper is shedding and breaking, handle with care.

Administrative Information

Publication Information: Processed by Stephanie Bennett, 2021
Access Restrictions: The collection is open for use.
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Preferred Citation: African American Families Photograph Scrapbook (MS919), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

Collection Inventory

Photograph scrapbook (circa 1920-1960) Box 1 Folder 3The scrapbook contains Hampton Institute photo postcards as well as photographs documenting buildings under construction, various groups of people with cards, in front of buildings, in horse-pulled open-top carriages, in fields, and holding items such as parasols and guitars. There are also images of what appears to farmland and ducks.
Photograph scrapbook pages (circa 1920-1960) Box 1 Folder 2This folder contains images of people, both in candid and portrait settings, buildings being built, and others. Names identified include: Bundy, Campbell, Jake Ballard, the United Usher Chorus of High Point (N.C.), the 1954 Sampson Air Force Base FLT 3188 3660 BMTs, Anna Bell (or Annabell), and St. Paul Baptist Church in Gastonia, N.C. Also pictured are a Watkins Products delivery man and a published image of Winston-Salem State University founder and inaugural president S. G. Atkins (Simon Green Atkins).
Photographs and clipping (circa 1920-1935, circa 2000) Box 1 Folder 1The newspaper clipping is modern, circa 2000, and features an image of what appears to be an all-Black Boy Scout troop, detailed as Mount Zion Baptist Church Boy Scout troop 69 and dated 1942-1943 in the paper caption. Two other photographs feature groups of young Black people; one has a man in a suit with a group of ten young women. The second has five women, some seen in the other photograph, identified in handwriting on the back: Precious Foster, Cheek, Smith, Gertrude Dixon, and Sassner.

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