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New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.
View of Negro Life in the Negro Section, Newport News, Virginia
New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.

View of Negro Life in the Negro Section, Newport News, Virginia

Artist Paul Schermerhorn Carter (American, 1903 - 1938)
CultureAmerican
Date1936; printed 1985
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 6 5/16 × 9 9/16 in. (16 × 24.3 cm)
Overall, Support: 7 13/16 × 9 15/16 in. (19.8 × 25.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number85.1.3
Not on view
DescriptionThis is one of a series of gelatin silver prints; FSA photographs in Virginia.

Label TextPaul Carter American, 1903–1938 View of Negro Life in the Negro Section, Newport News, Virginia, September 1936 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1985 Chrysler Museum purchase 85.1.3 Exhibition History"Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, May 3 - June 16, 1985. "Women and the Civil Rights Movement," Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 14 - October 30, 2016. Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson. _Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1985: p. 42.