From the photographer, handwritten on the verso of the photograph: "Spc. Tyson Johnson III, 22, a mechanic with the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, was wounded September 20, 2003 in a mortar attack on the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He suffered shrapnel wounds, a punctured lung, and lost his kidney. / Photographed at his home in Prichard, Alabama, May 6, 2004. / From the Purple Hearts Series"
From the photographer, handwritten on verso of photograph: "PFC Alan Jermaine Lewis, 23, a machine gunner with the 3rd Infantry Division, was wounded July 16, 2003 when his vehicle hit a land mine while he was delivering ice to other soldiers. He lost both legs and suffered multiple fractures. / Photographed at his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin November 23, 2003 / From the Purple Hearts series"
A mounted black and white photograph; young African American girl wearing a vertically striped dress, gathered at waist with white bonnet on her head; young white boy wearing light colored top and pants with black hose and black leather boots seated on the arm of a wicker chair holding a rod across his lap, wearing a hat on his head.
From slavery to Jim Crow segregation, African American girls worked in fields and as maids. Girls found themselves serving families and becoming lifelong nursemaids and domestic workers.
Girls as young as three carried heavy babies, scrubbed dirty diapers, and stayed up late to mend clothing.
What would it be like to care for an infant that was also your boss?
Clearly they were workers. The photographs make their work invisible.
two black and white photographs mounted on black, perforated construction paper; recto- three elderly women standing side by side in profile but with faces turned and looking towards photographer, woman on left is wearing a black hat and a black and white coat with a belt tied around waist, woman in middle is wearing a dark coat and has a white kerchief with spotted pattern wrapped around hair and tied under chin, woman on right is wearing a light colored jacket, dark kerchief around her head and tied under her chin and is pointing towards photographer with her left hand; verso- young African American boy is peering over the top of a drinking water fountain with the spray on, right hand is gripping edge of bowl
black and white photograph; African American woman singing into microphone; image of Ella Fitzgerald; image is very dark and only part of her face is visible