Description

This is a black and white photocopy of a photograph. The subjects are a group of men: four men standing behind five men seated on chairs. The men in the image have been identified in a handwritten note on the back of the page: "Jerry Roane, Issac Rowland, Squire Scwemp, Perry Robinson."There is also a black and white photocopy of the same photograph from a printed page. It looks like this picture was on the lower half of a page. There is a caption that likely relates to an image above this one. The printed caption for this image reads, "The august members of a Negro lodge in Lexington pose for Miley in their Sunday best. (8 x 10. c. 1900)." There are handwritten notes identifying the men in the image: "John Gooch, Hugh A. Williams, Will Price, Oceola Coles, Ulysees (?) Judge Fisher, [Harris in a different hand] Sam Jackson (?), Johnson Pettigrew, Julius Bibbs, James Stewart (Shields?)." There is an additional note in the left margin: Top to bottom, 1.?, 2. Wms, 3. Price, 4. Coles, 5. Fisher, 6. Jackson, 7. Pettigrew, 8. Bibbs, 9. Stewart.

Record Contributed By

Washington and Lee University

Record Harvested From

Digital Virginias