view of the market square in Chattanooga Tennessee, 1907.

group portrait in front of local shoe store, owned and operated by former slave S.J. Gilpin, in Richmond Virginia, 1899.

LEFT: Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga Tennessee, 1906. RIGHT: workers at Republic Marble Quarry in Knoxville Tennessee, 1903.

crowds gathered at the emancipation day parade in Richmond Virginia, 1905.

Crossville Tennessee, 1937.

workers at the Lexington Laundry Company in Richmond Virginia, 1899.

performance of a Greek play at the Parthenon in Nashville Tennessee, circa 1900 – 1921.

Richmond Virginia, circa 1870 – 1875.

view of the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga Tennessee, 1902.

children’s portrait in Nashville Tennessee, 1901.

view of Richmond Virginia, the Confederacy’s capital, following conquest by Union troops in 1865.

crowds at the Big Ridge Park public pools in Hamilton County Tennessee, circa 1933 – 1945.

resettlement official investigating family of eight living in a farm shed outside Camden Tennessee, 1936.

workers constructing boxes at a tobacco factory in Richmond Virginia, 1902.