Black people -- laborers
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Often defined as unskilled manual work for wages, usually requires skills and is hard demanding work. Includes: quarrymen; powdermen; assembly line worker; canal diggers; railroad track layers; factory workers.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Guncotton plant panoramic photographs
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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Guncotton plant panoramic photographs
Collection
Accession: 1969-145
Abstract:
The DuPont Company purchased a site near City Point, Virginia on the James River in 1912 in order to build a dynamite plant located closer to the southern market. The panoramic photographs show exteriors of the plant, views of the workers' housing, the town (including the African American section), and a photograph of the Hopewell China Corporation, a post-war reuse of one of the facilities.
Dates:
1918-circa 1920
Quarries and quarry workers panoramic photographs
Collection
Accession: 1969-148
Abstract:
Quarrying is the act of extracting natural stones to use in building materials. Throughout the 1920s quarries were the largest employers of African Americans. This collection consists of two panoramic photographs of unidentified quarries, one with workers, one without.
Dates:
circa 1920
