[Bell rack on model, museum in Mobile, Ala.]
still image
graphic
government publication
still image
Gelatin silver prints-1930-1940.
xxu
1937
1938
monographic
[between 1937 and ca. 1938]
eng
1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
No known restrictions on reproduction.
10143B.
Caption: The bell rack. Contraption used by an Alabama slave owner to guard a runaway slave. This rack was originally topped by a bell which rang when the runaway attempted to leave the road and go through foliage or trees. It was attached around the neck as shown in the picture. A belt passed through the loop at the bottom to hold the iron rod firmly fastened to the waist of the wearer. In the accompanying photograph Richbourg Gailliard, assistant to the director of the Federal Museum and also a well-known young Mobile artist, poses to show the use made of the bell rack.
Photo by Russell, Mobile.
Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.
Gailliard, Richbourg.
Fugitive slaves
Alabama
Mobile
1840-1870
United States
Alabama
Mobile
LOT 13262-1, no. 6
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.01038
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c25130
Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections
(DLC) 2001696353
99615417
LC-USZ62-125130 DLC
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hdl:loc.pnp/cph.3c25130
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DLC
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