[Louisa McCauley, Rosa Parks' paternal grandmother]
still image
graphic
still image
Gelatin silver prints-Hand-colored-1910.
Portrait photographs-1910.
Airbrush works-1910.
1910
monographic
[ca. 1910?]
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1 photograph : airbrushed hand-colored gelatin silver print ; sheet 25.3 x 20.2 cm.
Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Louisa Collins McCauley (ca. 1875-1941), Rosa Parks' paternal grandmother.
Use digital image. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information, see
Publication may be restricted. For general information see "Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers...,"
Caption label from exhibit Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words--Early Life and Activism: Grandmother, Louisa Collins. Louisa Collins was born in Georgia, the daughter of a mixed-race slave. She married Anderson McCauley, another mixed-race Georgian. Ten of their seventeen children survived to adulthood. All ten were literate. The eldest was Addie (b. 1884) and the youngest was George Gaines McCauley (b. 1904). Rosa lived with her grandparents as a toddler.
Title devised by Library staff.
Inscription on separate piece of paper housed with item: "Luiza, Mrs. Parks' father's mother".
Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "Rosa Parks: Beyond the Bus" at the South Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., December 5, 2019 - September 2020.
Parks, Rosa,
1913-2005
Family
LOT 15045, no. 2336 [item]
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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