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10/15/2025

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A “PEOPLES” AMERICAN HISTORY WILL SPEAK ITS MIND [Coming Soon]
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“The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex.”― Howard Zinn
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“NEGRO DAYS”. Tennessee and Texas | Volume 15/22 | Max Singer’s “FORGOTTEN AMERICA”
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>>EXCERPT ONE— Black attendees at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1897 were relegated to a single space within the entire exposition, the Negro Building >>EXCERPT TWO— On October 29, 1895, Henr

10/15/2025

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A “PEOPLES” AMERICAN HISTORY WILL SPEAK ITS MIND
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William Henry Ellis, decided to move to New York after it was revealed in San Antonio that he was African American. In 1904 Ellis bought a seat on Wall Street.
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photo: William Henry Ellis. Unknown author. Courtesy F***y Johnson-Griffin. Public domain. [animated using midjourney]
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from: “NEGRO DAYS”. Tennessee and Texas | Volume 15/22 | Max Singer’s “FORGOTTEN AMERICA”
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10/15/2025

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AMERICA STRIKES A POSE [Coming Soon]
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“Many had been well-known in their communities. Some even achieved National notoriety”
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FORGOTTEN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS & THEIR SUBJECTS
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The 19th-Century photographic portraits from Max Singer’s personal collection and featured in his “Forgotten America” include portraits by Napoleon Sarony (New York) — perhaps the Richard Avedon of his time — a photographer of celebrities such as Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde; The Bendann Brothers (Baltimore) whose studio today an art gallery run by the family; and Moses Parker Rice (The District of Columbia ) thought to have taken the famous “Gettysburg Portrait” of Abraham Lincoln
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from: FOOTNOTES TO HISTORY. Portraits of Americans. A Portrait of America. Introduction to Max Singer’s “FORGOTTEN AMERICA”. Volume 1.
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Inspired By My Personal Collection Of 19Th-Century American Photographic Portraits (Cabinet Cards & Cartes De Visite From Each Of The 50 States Plus The District Of Columbia) & Armed With The Slimmest

08/17/2024

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The Empty Quarter: A Memoir of My Stay in the French Quarter During the Plague Years 2020–2021

12/22/2018

11/13/2018

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