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Portrait of Lovie Patton and Claudine Waller

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Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of integration in Mississippi public schools. During that time, Olson photographed local students, their relatives, and other residents of Marion County, which she later compiled into a series entitled, "Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971."

Place

Marion County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

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Olson, Martha, American

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Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of integration in Mississippi public schools. During that time, Olson photographed local students, their relatives, and other residents of Marion County, which she later compiled into a series entitled, "Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971."

Place

Marion County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

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Olson, Martha, American

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Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of integration in Mississippi public schools. During that time, Olson photographed local students, their relatives, and other residents of Marion County, which she later compiled into a series entitled, "Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971."

Place

Marion County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

Portrait of an unidentified woman seated in a chair

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Olson, Martha, American

Caption

Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of integration in Mississippi public schools. During that time, Olson photographed local students, their relatives, and other residents of Marion County, which she later compiled into a series entitled, "Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971."

Place

Marion County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

Portrait of an unidentified student in kindergarten class

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Olson, Martha, American

Caption

Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of integration in Mississippi public schools. During that time, Olson photographed local students, their relatives, and other residents of Marion County, which she later compiled into a series entitled, "Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971."

Place

Marion County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

Portrait of an anonymous man on a mule drawn cart at 6 a.m.

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Olson, Martha, American

Caption

Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of integration in Mississippi public schools. During that time, Olson photographed local students, their relatives, and other residents of Marion County, which she later compiled into a series entitled, "Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971."

Place

Marion County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

Portrait of Annie Lee Taylor holding Geneva Taylor

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Olson, Martha, American

Caption

Martha Olson graduated from Northwestern University with her B.A. in Art in 1969, and within a year, she was working more than 800 miles away as the girls’ physical education teacher at Marion High School in Columbia, Mississippi. It was the first year of integration in Mississippi public schools. During that time, Olson photographed local students, their relatives, and other residents of Marion County, which she later compiled into a series entitled, "Marion County Mississippi: 1970-1971."

Place

Marion County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

Carte-de-visite of Hubert Gideon Welles in outfit sewn by Elizabeth Keckley

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Ulke, Henry, German-American, 1821 - 1910

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Brady, Mathew, American, 1822 - 1896

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United States, North and Central America

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Royster, Kenneth, American, born 1944

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United States, North and Central America

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Royster, Kenneth, American, born 1944

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United States, North and Central America

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Royster, Kenneth, American, born 1944

Place

United States, North and Central America

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Royster, Kenneth, American, born 1944

Place

United States, North and Central America

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Royster, Kenneth, American, born 1944

Place

United States, North and Central America

Lantern slide of the slave dealers, Birch & Co., in Alexandria, Virginia

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Brady, Mathew, American, 1822 - 1896

Place

Alexandria, Virginia, United States, North and Central America

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Eli Reed, American, born 1946

Place

San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America

Joseph and Charles, Walking the Labels Category, POCC Ball, Webster Hall, Manhattan, NY, 2007

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Gaskin, Gerard H., Trinidadian American, born 1965

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"The balls are a celebration of black and Latino urban gay life. They were born in Harlem out of a need for black and Latino gays to have a safe space to express themselves. Balls are constructed like beauty and talent pageants. The participants work to redefine and critique gender and sexual identity through an extravagant fashion masquerade. Women and men become fluid, interchangeable points of departure and reference, disrupting the notion of a fixed and rigid gender and sexual self. My images try to show a more personal and intimate beauty, pride, dignity, courage, and grace that have been painfully challenged by mainstream society. All of this happens at night in small halls in cities all over the country. These photographs, taken in New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, and Washington, D.C., show us different views of these spaces as they are reflected in the eyes of house and ball members who perform what they wish these cities could be." – Gerard H. Gaskin

Place

Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America