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September 21, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Portraying Ourselves: Nineteenth-Century Black Fashion History through Photographs, 1840-1900

Dr. Karin Bohleke discuses how the invention of photography at the end of 1839 made it possible for ordinary citizens to obtain their portrait and represent themselves as they wished […]

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