Joseph H. Avery Jr.

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Title

Joseph H. Avery Jr.

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Type

Image

Description

A portrait of the photographer, Joseph H. Avery Jr. Avery operated the Avery Studio on Virginia Street in Frenchtown, Tallahassee, where he captured the African-American community in the area. More specifically "classy women, zoot suited men, and persons of distinction" during the Jim Crow era when rarely other studios provided this service. He 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.)

Physical Description

1 item

Identifier

JGRCMA-FC-B042A-F001-I046

Topics

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

Time Period

Jim Crow (1877-1964)

Physical Location

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

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