Family Matters
Collective Portraits of Africans in America 1860-1960
By Museum of Public Art
Vintage photographs from the collection of Kevin Harris
unknown (1880) by Detroit Publishing Company Museum of Public Art
title by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
FAMILY ALBUM COVERS
Family Albums at the turn of the century were works of art all by themselves.
UNKNOWN (1900) by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
Family album with hand tooled leather and gold leaf.
UNKNOWN (1890) by KEVIN HARIS Museum of Public Art
Family album with celluloid cover and velvet back.
UNKNOWN (1900) by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
Brass and leather album cover
unknown (1890) by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
Elaborately detailed cover in velvet with brass and celluloid inset.
UNKNOWN (1900) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
The Kevin Harris Collection
Album Pages
UNKNOWN (1900) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1860) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1870) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
unknown (1860) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
sixth plate ambrotype
unknown (1865) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1870) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1870) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
Ambrotype of "free woman of color" circa 1850.
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
Great grandparents by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
Maternal great grandmother and great grandfather born into slavery.
unknown (1880) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
unknown (1890) by Detroit Publishing Company Museum of Public Art
unknown (1890) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
Although this photo was taken in 1896, little had changed in the lives of African Americans in North Carloina 33 years after emancipation.
unknown (1880) by Detroit Publishing Company Museum of Public Art
unknown (1900) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
Mother and son both born slaves. She had 27 children and 7 sets of twins!
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
unknown (1880) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1880) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1880) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1890) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
Grandmother and her sisters (1910) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
Family Band (1880) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
unknown (1870) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
uknown (1890) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1870) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1880) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1870) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1890) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1880) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
unknown (1910) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1900) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1920) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1920) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
uknown (1920) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
Tight Like That (1920) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
untitled (1927) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1920) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
mom and dad (1950) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
Mom and Dad
unknown (1922) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
Aunt Maxine (1930) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
Aunt Maxine
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown (1940) by KEVIN HARRIS collection Museum of Public Art
unknown by KEVIN HARRIS Museum of Public Art
All images are part of the private collection of Kevin Harris, Director Museum of Public Art.
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