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Photographer: Arsenal Hill Marker
Caption:
Upper right picture | Additional Description: From 1920 through 1936, self-taught photographer Richard
Samuel Roberts recorded an important chapter in Columbia
history - African-American life during the era of Jim Crow.
Through his masterful cameraskills this Florida native
documented the lives of both ordinary and influential black
Columbians with an eye for detail and humanity. Roberts
worked out of a shed behind his family's Wayne Street home
before opening a studio on Washington Street. in the heart of
the capital city's African-American commercial district.
Image
courtasy South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina.
From A True Likeness, The Black South of Richard Samuel
Roberts: 1920-1936.©
The Estate of Richard Samuel Roberts,
by permission of Bruccali Clark Layman, Inc.
Submitted: April 12, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p149914
File Size: 0.206 Megabytes
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