Grace Willis, Avery Collection

Item

 

Title

Grace Willis, Avery Collection

Rights Information

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0
Copyright of this work is held by Joseph H. Avery Jr. It is provided here for scholarship, research, and private study. Further use or copying of the work beyond Fair Use may require permission from the rightsholder.

Type

Image

Creator

Avery, Joseph Henry Jr. (Photographer)

Date

1944

Description

Graduation portrait of Grace Willis taken at the Avery Studio. Operated by Joseph H. Avery Jr. in Frenchtown, Tallahassee, the studio captured the African-American community during the Jim Crow era when rarely other studios provided this service. Avery moved to Jacksonville in 1950, and later on to Washington, D.C. in the early 1960s, where he became the first Black photographer for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Genre

Photographs

Place

Tallahassee (Fla.)

Identifier

JGRCMA-FC-B042A-F001-I041

Topics

African American families
African American photographers
African American portrait photographers
Frenchtown (Tallahassee (Fla.))
African American students
African American women

Time Period

Jim Crow (1877-1964)

Physical Location

Families Collection, John G. Riley House Archives, Tallahassee Community College Library, Tallahassee, Florida.

Item sets