Inventory No. 10-78
Accession No. 35-05
Date: 1840-1855
Photographers: Joseph T. Zealy (1812-1893) and others
Collector: Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
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Paper Archives: 35-05.
A small daguerreotype collection includes a group of 15 of the earliest known images of African-born slaves. The daguerreotypes were commissioned by Louis Agassiz as he sought visual support for his views about racial typology. Many of the portraits taken in 1850 by Joseph T. Zealy of Columbia, South Carolina, are identified by the slave's first name, region or tribe of origin, and plantation.
Inventory No. 10-10
Accession No. 993-21
Date: 1926-1931
Photographers: Various
Collector: Caroline Bond Day (1889-1948)
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Paper
Archives: 993-21
Publication: Caroline Bond Day. A Study of Some Negro White Families in the United States. Varia Africana V, Harvard African Studies, vol. 10. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1932.
Caroline Bond Day collected over 3,500 photographs during a comprehensive anthropometric analysis begun under the direction of Earnest A. Hooton in 1918 and completed in 1931 with the publication, A Study of Some Negro White Families in the United States (1932). Many of the hundreds of informal family portraits sent to Bond Day, rephotographed, and returned reflect her sociological interests. Related materials include correspondence, tables, family histories, genealogical charts, hair samples, manuscripts, and other printed matter.
See also the Caroline Bond Day and Ernest A. Hooton Finding Aids to Archival Collections.