A hundred years ago, thousands of Black residents visited Washington Street for something modern Columbians take for granted — getting a photo taken. There, they found the studio of Richard Samuel Roberts, whose side-job portraits captured a slice of Black Columbia in the 1920s and ’30s, posed in front of painted backdrops and wearing everything …
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University of South Carolina Archivists Digitizing Century-Old Photos of Black Columbians Found Under Crawl Space
A hundred years ago, thousands of Black residents visited Washington Street for something modern Columbians take for granted — getting a photo taken. There, they found the studio of Richard Samuel Roberts, whose side-job portraits captured a slice of Black Columbia in the 1920s and ’30s, posed in front of painted backdrops and wearing everything …
Digital Project Opens Possibility to Research Hungarian Noble Families
A group of young people with noble roots, led by art historian Villő Szekeres-Ugron, embarked on an ambitious project: the Hungarian Noble Photographic Archive (MaNeFo), reports kronikaonline.ro. This initiative aimed to preserve and digitize photographic material related to the Hungarian nobility. The inspiration for the project stemmed from a digitization competition, highlighting the importance of …