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A photograph of Flora Mae Hunter a co-worker at the Horseshoe Plantation in the 1930s. Hunter cooked for the owners of Sunnyhill, Foshalee, and Horseshoe Plantations and wrote the recipe book "Born in the Kitchen: Plain and Fancy Plantation Fixings" (1979) for which she received the 1988 Florida Folk Heritage Award.
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A cropped picture of Grant Jackson from the Hart/Jackson Family Collection. His ancestors spent their early years living among Native Americans, which shielded them from slave owners. After, Jackson acquired and farmed his own land in Miccosukee, and became known as a "medicine man" for his cures using herbs and roots. The photograph also shows him wearing copper around his neck, often worn to relieve arthritis.
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A 1999 reproduction of an older photograph of Lucille Rivers and her husband, Mr. Rivers, from the Hart/Jackson Family Collection.
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A portrait of Valarie Hart from the Hart/Jackson Family Collection.
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A portrait of Tom Hadley, son of Harkless and Mary Hadley. Born into slavery in Georgia, Harkless moved to Tallahassee in the early 1900s and established the family business. Harkless and Mary Hadley's five sons continued operating their family businesses after their parents, which included two grocery stores, a filling station, and rental properties until the 1970s.
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A photograph of the Hadley Brothers (L-R): Herbert, Hayward, Virgil, Ralph and Tom. Born into slavery in Georgia, Harkless moved to Tallahassee in the early 1900s and established the family business. Harkless and Mary Hadley's five sons continued operating their family businesses after their parents, which included two grocery stores, a filling station, and rental properties until the 1970s.
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A portrait of Harkless and Mary Hadley, owners of Hadley Groceries on West Brevard street, Tallahassee, which operated from the 1900s to the 1970s. Born into slavery in Georgia, Harkless moved to Tallahassee in the early 1900s and established the family business. His sons Thomas and Ralph later ran the store, with Ralph later starting his own grocery store, as well as a gas station and auto dealership.
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A photograph of Barbara Norwood's wedding. She was the daughter of W.K. Perkins, former Principal of Griffin.
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A photograph of Edwin Norwood, former NAACP president and son of former Principal of Griffin W.K. Perkins.
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A photograph of Rev. C.P. Allen, former President of the State Primitive Baptist Convention, and Rev. D. Crawford, former pastor of St. Mary's Primitive Baptist Church on West Call Street. Part of the Griffin School collection, this photograph is notable since Rev. Crawford's children, Wilhelmina Wester, Phylis Dean, and Robert Crawford, were all graduates of Griffin.