Joseph H. Avery Jr., 1999
Item
Title
Joseph H. Avery Jr., 1999
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Type
Image
Date
1999-09
Description
A portrait of the photographer, Joseph H. Avery Jr. from 1999 when he was 80 years old. 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-I049
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.