Arkansas--Photographs

Horse drawn carriages- driven by African Americans- standing in muddy road outside a line of stores.

One-story wooden plank home- close up of family gathered on porch- front steps.

One-story wooden plank home- family gathered on porch- behind wooden fence.

Man with white mustache and pipe on horseback in foreground; line of men- boys- African Americans along a building (store?) in background.

Man on horseback in yard- another man standing nearby with several dogs.

Men and young boys in wagon bed outside Palace Drug Store- a mule is hitched to the wagon.

Two women in horse-drawn carriage chat with fruit peddler in covered horse-drawn wagon- outside of 2-story wooden house with white picket fence.

One-story wooden plank home- family gathered on porch- behind wooden fence.

Horse-drawn wagon at corner of two dirt roads in small town- men and boys standing around outside drug store opposite.

Small A-frame plaster house- two women and dog sitting on porch.

The Jessie Tarbox Beals Collection contains 420 black and white photographs, circa 1900-1940, primarily of New York City and its inhabitants. It also includes postcards, as well as larger prints, of bohemian Greenwich Village between 1905 and 1920. Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942), a school teacher who taught herself photography, joined the Buffalo Courier staff in 1902 and became known as the first woman press photographer.