#Portrait Studios In Columbus Ohio

[2022-mmac]

Sundays at 2pm at MMAC Center

Three Sunday concerts of original music composed and performed by local musicians

Events made possible by funding from the New Mexico Music Commission https://www.newmexicomusic.org/

November 5: James Yeager

James Albert Yeager moved to New Mexico in 2009. He has performed regularly as conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and choral accompanist. He retired as Professor of Sacred Music at the Josephinum College in Columbus, Ohio (1984-2009). James has done numerous compositions and arrangements, including music for two short films. His orchestral works have been performed in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. At present, his primary musical interest remains as a composer

Program: The program will center on James’ three recent compositions: Passacaglia for Organ & Orchestra (2022), Fugue for Piano and Chamber Orchestra ”Mystical Desert”(2023), and Sonata for Piano Quintet (2023). Since the Passacaglia and the Fugue require large ensembles, they will be performed using recordings from Ravel Virtual Studios (NYC) . The Sonata will be played by New Mexico musicians - Flutist Ms. Hyorim Kim, a string quartet of Eric Sewell, Grant Hanner and Lisa Donald, and pianist Natalia Tikhovidova. - as a premiere performance. James will also play short pieces from his film scores. The program will last one hour and is free to the public.

November 12: Michael Hays

Mike Hays is a retired English teacher who has been playing music, especially on bass, since he was a young teen. In the last ten years, he has taken his interest in songwriting more seriously and has been creating jazz-based both vocal and instrumental compositions for the group he is working with. The current group (to whom Mike is deeply grateful) is more classically based, and the audience of the November Concert Series will notice his current compositions reflect this.

Program: Basement Dancing is a group that performs music written by Michael Hays. The group comprises Luis Delgado on clarinet and flute, Juli Palidino on viola and violin, Katie Harlow on cello, mandolin and accordion, Joseph Sabella on drums, and Michael Hays on bass and vocals. . Vocal songs at this concert will include musical portraits of the lonely soul waiting for his lost love in the Plaza de los Arboles Muertos, of the longing that hapless Señor Sapo feels as he watches a lovely circus acrobat, and of the nocturnal activities of Groany Bones, a skeleton who leads a danse macabre.

November 17: Kathleen Ryan + Exhibit Opening of "Masks & Metal"

Composer/pianist Kathleen Ryan is a Whisperings Solo Piano artist. She was the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico commissioned composer in 2008, for which she composed a set of 24 piano left-hand-alone preludes titled Verbs. Several of her piano solo pieces were featured in the Emmy Award-winning Iowa Public TV special, The Seasons. Ryan lives near Mountainair with her husband and two quirky but inspiring cats.

Program: Composer/pianist Kathleen Ryan's piano solo performance will illustrate aspects of her composer’s life: being inspired, becoming ambitious, recovering from writer’s block, making money, and recycling teenage angst songs into piano solos. She will finish with some premieres, including music that’s not quite composed just yet! The full range of her 21st century impressionist style will be heard, from silly to soothing, from complex to simply serene.

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Maternity and Newborn Photography in Hilliard, Ohio

Welcome to Joanna Andres Photography LLC is one of the leading Portrait Studios in Columbus, Ohio that provides top-notch Columbus Newborn & Baby Photography for capturing life most precious and irreplaceable memories of your child. Joanna is a talented, experienced and passionate Newborn and Baby specialist photographer that loves her profession and works with loyalty to give the best photo session with unique style poses by using a wide variety of props, clothes and accessories. She not only does Newborn and Baby Photography, but she also provides stunning quality and unique sessions to meet all your portrait needs. With over years of experience in photography, Joanna is ready to offer you in-home and studio photography sessions for your convenience.

Joanna Andres Photography specializes in Newborn Photography, Baby and Children Photography, Newborn Maternity Photography, Milestone Photography, Maternity and Family photography. Joanna is Columbus specialist photographers that look forward to creating lovable memories for you that will last a lifetime.

If you are seeking a versatile and courteous Baby Photographer in Columbus Ohio, turn to Joanna Andres Photography. Newborn and Baby Photography specialist Joanna is so confident to frame all those special memories that you never want to forget. Joanna always ready to create and capture fantastic images that express the love and detail you want!  At Joanna Andres Photography, we offer a broad range of Professional Portrait Photography in Upper Arlington, including maternity, newborn, baby, child and family, milestone, infant and newborn baby family photography throughout Columbus, Ohio and all surrounding cities. The expert at Joanna Andres Photography is committed to offering the Professional Maternity Photography in Lewis Center, Ohio and all nearby cities. Are you keen to hire a reliable and top photographer for Newborn Maternity Photography in Hilliard, Ohio? If yes, turn to Joanna Andres Photography. For more details, today call me at and visit us at www.joannaandresphotography.com!!

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Julia; Columbus, Ohio

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The Story Behind C.T. Webber’s Iconic Painting  ‘The Underground Railroad’

It is among the most iconic paintings in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum, and among the most reproduced. Charles T. Webber’s “The Underground Railroad” has illustrated books, magazines and encyclopedias by the score. And yet it took decades for the museum to accept the painting. One might say that this painting justifies the location of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in our city.

Although Webber was born in New York, he spent most of his artistic career in Cincinnati. His first job involved tinting photographs in a local studio. He helped organize a number of arts organizations and clubs in the Queen City and consequently was very well connected in the local arts scene.

It is obvious that Webber possessed some talent. A painting of his was accepted in the 1881 Paris Salon and local newspapers reported that it was the first painting by an American artist, painted on American soil, accepted by the Salon. (Other American artists had provided work that they painted in Europe.)

Although Webber painted in a variety of genres – landscape, mythology, still life, etc. – he made his living painting portraits and through his studio got to know many significant residents of the Queen City.

Levi Coffin, known as the “President of the Underground Railroad,” met Webber after relocating from Indiana to Cincinnati in 1847. Webber painted Coffin’s portrait and also a companion portrait of Coffin’s wife, Catherine.

When the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition was announced – the Chicago World’s Fair scheduled to celebrate Columbus’ arrival in the New World – Webber set about painting his tribute to the Coffins and other “conductors” of the Underground Railroad. It took five years from initial sketches to final canvas. Webber’s painting was accepted for exhibition in Chicago along with some still-renowned artists like Frank Duveneck, T.C. Steele, Douglas Volk, Henry Farny and others.

Among this august assemblage, Webber’s painting stood out. The Daily Inter Ocean, a Chicago newspaper, published a lengthy article on “The Underground Railroad” in its issue of 8 July 1893:

“The peculiar strength of the picture, and which undoubtedly calls a halt to the footsteps and signals this out as interesting among the many, is the expression on the different faces.”

Those faces, unlike many other artistic representations of abolitionist activity, were painted from life. As noted, Webber had painted portraits of the Coffins and also painted a portrait of abolitionist Hannah Haydock who, although pictured in this image actually lived in Warren County, the next stop of the Underground Railroad.

It is likely that Webber expected this painting to fetch a good price when the Columbian Exposition ended, but it was not to be. Nearly 20 years later, as Webber lay dying in his home along the Ohio River near Sedamsville, the canvas was still in his possession.

At the close of the Chicago World’s Fair, Webber was nearly 70 years old. His sales declined as younger artists emerged on the scene. Webber’s wife died in 1891 while he was still working on his masterpiece and he moved in with one of his students, artist Mary Spencer, who eventually became his executrix.

In the years before Webber died, some of his colleagues, led by artist John Rettig, endeavored to collect a fund to purchase “The Underground Railroad” and present it to the Cincinnati Art Museum. Rettig, according to the Cincinnati Post [5 April 1911], had visited Webber as he lay dying:

“Even with the hand of death on him, Webber recognized his friend. Then his mind wandered. He grasped an imaginary brush in his gaunt hand and pointed to the easel he thought was before him, asking his friend’s advice as to the picture there.”

For a couple of years, Rettig’s fund-raising group had exhibited Webber’s “The Underground Railroad” at galleries and men’s clubs around Cincinnati in an effort to raise the $10,000 purchase price. With Webber’s death, the canvas was finally hung at the Cincinnati Art Museum, though only on loan while fund-raising continued.

It is a mystery, given the names associated with Rettig’s committee, why the painting could not have been purchased with the pocket change of half the organization. Among the subscribers were James N. Gamble, of Procter & Gamble; jeweler Loring Andrews; drug store magnate Cora Dow; artist Henry Farny; Judge Alfred K. Nippert; best-selling author William H. Venable; kindergarten pioneer Annie Laws and other names from the highest echelons of Cincinnati society.

According to Anita Ellis, former curator of decorative arts at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the purchase price was not fully collected until 1927. That year, the painting was officially donated to the Cincinnati Art Museum. By then, Webber had been in his grave at Spring Grove Cemetery for 16 years. Mary Spencer, Webber’s executor, died in 1923 at the age of 87.

Having acquired “The Underground Railroad,” the Art Museum almost immediately got rid of it. According to Anita Ellis [Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin, Summer 1979]:

“On June 27, 1930, the painting was lent to Woodward High School, Cincinnati. It was returned on April 10, 1961, and has remained at the Museum since.”

Ellis, in her analysis of this painting, determined that Webber must have actually visited Levi Coffin’s suburban “farm” between Avondale and Walnut Hills to portray that location as the scene depicted in the painting.

Restoration of the painting in the late 1970s emphasized the historic aspects of the painting rather than its somewhat confusing artistic qualities. Still, “The Underground Railroad” stakes Cincinnati’s claim as a beacon of hope  – however dim – in a very dark time.

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Welcome to my first Artist Spotlight;  Kimberly Crist is a photographer and artist living in Grand Junction, Colorado. She moved here just late last year with her boyfriend Keith and has already met and collaborated with other artists and businesses with some amazing work. When we first connected, Kimberly had a huge smile on her face and gave me a hug. We found each other through a mutual friend on facebook and she needed a model for a diaper bag she was shooting for. We instantly connected and the second time she shot some hat pictures of me and we got creative in her home studio. She’s completely shy about her artistry which makes it even more appealing. She has amazing works  of her macrame and stitched art on her walls, full of color and different braids and designs. It’s completely humbling and if given the chance, take her up on the offer to have her make you a caramel latte, it’s the best one I’ve ever had

Kimberly Crist; Tell me a bit about your full name and where it came from. The origin.

I just happen to be one of those people who has no understanding of where their name comes from. I do know that my parents liked the name Kimberly, and I asked them where Crist comes from but my father said that he got it from his mom and dad.

Where did you grow up? How do you think growing up there influenced your artistry? I grew up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. Living in the midwest helped me see so much beauty in what some people might not find conventionally attractive. Unlike in Colorado where its easy to take a great landscape photo, growing up in Ohio really forces you to find beauty in the overgrown, the run down. It’s just so completely different than out here.

Where are your parents now? Do you have any siblings? Tell me about them. My parents live in the same place I grew up, a little suburb outside of Columbus, Ohio, and my older sister lives out in Fall River, Massachusetts. In the 6 years I've been away from home and the 10 years my sister has, we've been good at getting all four of us together about every other year. Otherwise I try to fly home once a year, but every time I am home, I visit friends who see their family on a daily or weekly basis and it reminds me of how much you give up when you move away from home. Last fall, my sister and I were lucky enough to spend, I think it was a consecutive two weeks, driving around New England with our parents. It was the most time we had all spent together in probably a decade. I know that's not really information about them but I've done enough crying for the day and its hard for me to write about them without crying! (literally tearing up!)

What sort of art medium are you focusing on right now? In the past?

Photography has always been my main focus, ever since high school, primarily digital but sometimes small format film. I really love any creative outlet though, writing, drawing, or even just general arts and crafts.

Tell me what kind of photography makes you the happiest to shoot. What kind of photography do you like looking at that others have created?

Photography that can capture emotion or movement or a moment is typically what I am drawn to in my own work, even though I shoot everything from product and lifestyle to people and places. I think that's why I've always been drawn to lifestyle photography, because it isn't typically posed, you just happen to capture the right moment. As for others work, probably about the same, anything that feels documentary, that it's capturing the moment instead of creating it.

What or who inspires you? Why?

People, always. Traveling inspires me too but I always find that I can be in the coolest location, but no matter how much I try to enjoy solo travel - its just always better when there is someone to share that story with.

What are some instagram accounts that inspire you right now? 

@kaleyfromkansas and her soft, fine art approach to portraits. @julesville for her attention to color and composition. @justynaebutler for her ability to capture movement and her focus on detail.

Share a bucket list item you have. I'm not sure if this is considered one but at some point in my life I would really like to live out of my car for a few months, traveling around with my significant other just hiking and exploring and waking up somewhere new. Also, when I'm ready, I would love to build my own house on a tiny plot of land somewhere. Tell me about your favorite shoot to date and your favorite photograph from it. I think my favorite shoot to date was the one I did a few weeks ago with local Kagami Vintage shop owner, Sky! We didn't have a location, concept, or really anything planned, which might sound like a disaster for some people but I think I just thrived in that moment. We stumbled on so many different locations and because there was no pressure or time constraints, I got to step out of my comfort zone and try different approaches to how I shoot; focusing on movement and what I want the viewer to feel. I think it’s one of the few times I've allowed myself to slow down and focus on creativity, instead of just photography.

How do you feel about social media in this day and age and how it affects the photography industry? Do you see it having a more positive or negative impact in the future for photography? Why?

I've met so many amazing creatives through it but I became a lot happier with my own work when I began limiting my time on it. It made me realize how important it is to see my photos as a collective portfolio or collective blog, versus the one photo that I'm going to post to my instagram feed. For photography as a whole, I think it just depends on how you look at it. You can see social media and photography as this thing thats oversaturated the market, turned everyone into a photographer, or you can see it as this thing where now you have so many people learning and sharing and creating. I'll always try to see social media as community, instead of competition.

Best and worst piece of advice you've received so far in life?

I always remember from a young age my father casually mentioning to never rely on your partner for monetary or financial support in life, and subconsciously I've just carried that around with me forever. I grew up in the 90's where traditional gender roles seemed to be the path in life so at first I thought, okay yeah sure. and I don't think I ever really knew what it meant until I moved 1,200 miles from home and started to learn what being independent meant for me as a woman, living alone in a new city, and how that became my identity. Even now being in a relationship, its something I find so important to prioritize because I can become emotionally dependent in my partnership if I don't sort of step back and force myself out of my comfort zone. Now I think it's one of the most important parts of who I am, and I love knowing that it grew out of this subtle thing my father would mention every now and then.

The Artists Works:

Social Links Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kimberlycrist/  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/KimberlyCristPhotoCo Pinterest-https://www.pinterest.com/kimberlycristphotography/ Website - https://kimberlycrist.com

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Here's Donalee whose photos I took in OHIO. I got to do the photos at her home and studio...which really gives you a feeling of who Donalee is. AND we ended with a little creative Light glow photo. She’s a rock hound but this is actually a chunk of glass from her Dad. I'll be planning a couple more Traveling Photo Sessions next year to New England, North Carolina, down to Florida, Midwest and of course NY/NJ/PA. If you have a few people interested in doing a Portrait Photo Session, please contact me and we will get it going. Personal Portrait, Headshot, Couples, Families and more. Tag & Share as you please. Photography: Bonnie McCaffery #headshots #headshotphotography #portraitphotography #quiltersofinstagram #quilter #quilting #portraitphotographer #headshotsession #saqaart #fiberart #fiberartist #fiberarts #light (at Columbus, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHaj7y4HjS6/?igshid=13aqcffj0lr5v

[2022-mmac]

Sundays at 2pm at MMAC Center

Three Sunday concerts of original music composed and performed by local musicians.

November 5: James Yeager

James Albert Yeager moved to New Mexico in 2009. He has performed regularly as conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and choral accompanist. He retired as Professor of Sacred Music at the Josephinum College in Columbus, Ohio (1984-2009). James has done numerous compositions and arrangements, including music for two short films. His orchestral works have been performed in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. At present, his primary musical interest remains as a composer

Program: The program will center on James’ three recent compositions: Passacaglia for Organ & Orchestra (2022), Fugue for Piano and Chamber Orchestra ”Mystical Desert”(2023), and Sonata for Piano Quintet (2023). Since the Passacaglia and the Fugue require large ensembles, they will be performed using recordings from Ravel Virtual Studios (NYC) . The Sonata will be played by New Mexico musicians - Flutist Ms. Hyorim Kim, a string quartet of Eric Sewell, Grant Hanner and Lisa Donald, and pianist Natalia Tikhovidova. - as a premiere performance. James will also play short pieces from his film scores. The program will last one hour and is free to the public.

November 12: Michael Hays

Mike Hays is a retired English teacher who has been playing music, especially on bass, since he was a young teen. In the last ten years, he has taken his interest in songwriting more seriously and has been creating jazz-based both vocal and instrumental compositions for the group he is working with. The current group (to whom Mike is deeply grateful) is more classically based, and the audience of the November Concert Series will notice his current compositions reflect this.

Program: Basement Dancing is a group that performs music written by Michael Hays. The group comprises Luis Delgado on clarinet and flute, Juli Palidino on viola and violin, Katie Harlow on cello, mandolin and accordion, Joseph Sabella on drums, and Michael Hays on bass and vocals. . Vocal songs at this concert will include musical portraits of the lonely soul waiting for his lost love in the Plaza de los Arboles Muertos, of the longing that hapless Señor Sapo feels as he watches a lovely circus acrobat, and of the nocturnal activities of Groany Bones, a skeleton who leads a danse macabre.

November 17: Kathleen Ryan + Exhibit Opening of "Masks & Metal"

Composer/pianist Kathleen Ryan is a Whisperings Solo Piano artist. She was the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico commissioned composer in 2008, for which she composed a set of 24 piano left-hand-alone preludes titled Verbs. Several of her piano solo pieces were featured in the Emmy Award-winning Iowa Public TV special, The Seasons. Ryan lives near Mountainair with her husband and two quirky but inspiring cats.

Program: Composer/pianist Kathleen Ryan's piano solo performance will illustrate aspects of her composer’s life: being inspired, becoming ambitious, recovering from writer’s block, making money, and recycling teenage angst songs into piano solos. She will finish with some premieres, including music that’s not quite composed just yet! The full range of her 21st century impressionist style will be heard, from silly to soothing, from complex to simply serene.

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Artist of the Day

Kehinde Wiley

Barack Obama 2018 Oil on canvas

Los Angeles native and New York-based visual artist Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history's portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists--including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, and others--Wiley engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic, and sublime in his representation of urban black and brown men found throughout the world.

By applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, wealth, prestige, and history to subject matter drawn from the urban fabric, Wiley makes his subjects and their stylistic references juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery. Wiley's larger-than-life figures disturb and interrupt tropes of portrait painting, often blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation and the critical portrayal of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view of black and brown young men.

Initially, Wiley's portraits were based on photographs taken of young men found on the streets of Harlem. As his practice grew, his eye led him toward an international view, including models found in urban landscapes throughout the world--such as Senegal, Dakar and Rio de Janeiro, among others--accumulating to a vast body of work called, "The World Stage." The models, dressed in their everyday clothing--most of which are based on the notion of far-reaching Western ideals of style--are asked to assume poses found in paintings or sculptures representative of the history of their surroundings. This juxtaposition of the "old" inherited by the "new"--who often have no visual inheritance of which to speak--immediately provides a discourse that is at once visceral and cerebral in scope.

Without shying away from the complicated socio-political histories relevant to the world, Wiley's figurative paintings and sculptures "quote historical sources and position young black men within the field of power." His heroic paintings evoke a modern style instilling a unique and contemporary manner, awakening complex issues that many would prefer remain mute.

Kehinde Wiley received his MFA from Yale University in 2001. Shortly after, he became an Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Wiley’s work has been the subject of exhibitions worldwide and is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Denver Art Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the High Museum, Atlanta; the Columbus Museum of Art; the Phoenix Art Museum; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Jewish Museum, New York; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York. In 2015, Wiley was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, entitled A New Republic, now traveling and currently on view at The Toledo Museum of Fine Art in Toledo, Ohio. courtesy of skny.com, kehindewiley.com

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Kelly; Columbus, Ohio

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Starting today, I am reopening with outdoor portraits and one -on-one studio headshots. We’re also moving into a larger space this week! Contact me for special pricing for those who have have experienced hardship from the pandemic. #reopening #ohiophotograoher #columbusphotographer #photographer #portraitphotography #prople #pandemic #columbusohio #columbus #headshots #ohio #lewiscenter #atrillionsouls (at Harry Acosta Photography) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAE00Izghr9/?igshid=4n598kussmxy

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Young Slave During the Civil War Reduced to Such Poverty He Is Wearing Only Rags

c. 1862-1863

The Library of Congress, where this portrait can be located today, describes the fellow in this photo as simply a “Raggedy African American” and does not have the image officially on display online.

A digitally colorized Version of this Image can be seen on Shutterstock​‘s website here.

Photographer: George Washington Armstead (1835-1912), Armstead & White Photograph Gallery, Corinth, Mississippi

G.W. Armstead, head-and shoulders portrait, facing front taken between 1850 and 1860 (Source: The Library of Congress)

About the Photographer:

George W. Armstead, from Columbus, Ohio, was very active with a profitable business for a year and a half during the years 1862 and 1863. He operated with partners under the names Armstead & White and Armstead & Taylor.

Armstead started his studio in Corinth during its occupation by Union forces in May 1862 following the seige of that city by soldiers under the command of General Henry Halleck​. The Second Battle of Corinth​ in October 1862 saw a failed effort by Confederates to recapture Corinth.

Armstead made many carte de viste portraits of mainly soldiers in the Union army. He also took some photos of outdoor scenes such as the iconic image of Confederate Colonel William P. Rogers' body among his dead comrades after the battle of Corinth.

After the war, Armstead continued his business in Columbus, Ohio where he was originally from. In 1885, he moved to Nebraska and established another studio "Armstead & Sons" in North Bend.

Portrait of G. W. Armstead and his son George Clarence Armstead, who took over his father’s studio taken c. 1885 (Source: Progressive men of Nebraska; a book of portraits by David Matthew Carr (1864 - ed), published 1902, page 161)

According to writer Francis Trevelyan Miller​ in his 1912 series The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes, "George Armstead was a wonderful photographer, rivaling Matthew Brady at his best."

Clothing of Slaves

[From the Narrative and Testimony of Rev. Francis Hawley,Baptist Pastor in Colebrook, Litchfield county, Connecticut, who has resided fourteen years in the slave states, North and South Carolina.]

“The rule, where slaves are hired out, is two suits of clothes per year one pair of shoes, and one blanket; but as it relates to the great body of the slaves, this cannot be called a general rule. On many plantations, the children under ten or twelve years old, go entirely naked—or, if clothed at all, they have nothing more than a shirt. The cloth is of the coarsest kind, far from being durable or warm; and their shoes frequently come to pieces in a few weeks. I have never known any provision made, or time allowed for the washing of clothes.

If they wish to wash, as they have generally but one suit, they go after their day's toil to some stream, build a fire, pull off their clothes and wash them in the stream, and dry them by the fire; and in some instances they wear their clothes until they are worn off, without washing. I have never known an instance of a slaveholder putting himself to any expense, that his slaves might have decent clothes for the Sabbath.

If, by making baskets, brooms, mats, &c. at night or on Sundays, the slaves can get money enough to buy a Sunday suit, very well. I have never known an instance of a slaveholder furnishing his slaves with stockings or mittens. I know that the slaves suffer much, and no doubt many die in consequence of not being well clothed.

American Slavery As It Is by Theodore Dwight Weld​ New York: American Anti-Slavery Society​, 1839

Read Weld's book in its original format here: (via The Internet Archive, Boston Public Library​) https://archive.org/details/americanslaverya1839weld2

Here’s Booker T. Washington​ recalls the clothing he wore as a slave:

One thing I remember more vividly than any other in connection with the days when I was a slave was my dress, or, rather, my lack of dress.

The years when the war (The War of the Rebellion, 1860-65) was in progress between the States were especially trying to the slaves, so far as clothing was concerned. The Southern white people found it extremely hard to get clothing for themselves during that war, and, of course, the slaves underwent no little suffering in this respect.

The only garment that I remember receiving from my owners during the war was a "tow shirt." When I did not wear this shirt I was positively without any garment. In Virginia, the tow shirt was quite an institution during slavery. This shirt was made of the refuse flax that grew in that part of Virginia, and it was a veritable instrument of torture. It was stiff and coarse. Until it had been worn for about six weeks it made one feel as if a thousand needle points were pricking his flesh. I suppose I was about six years old when I was given one of these shirts to wear. After repeated trials the torture was more than my childish flesh could endure and I gave it up in despair.

To this day the sight of a new shirt revives the recollection of the tortures of my first new shirt. In the midst of my despair, in connection with this garment, my brother John, who was about two years older than I, did me a kindness which I shall never forget. He volunteered to wear my new shirt for me until it was "broken in." After he had worn it for several weeks I ventured to wear it myself, but not without pain.

Soon after my shirt experience, when the winter had grown quite cold, I received my first pair of shoes. These shoes had wooden bottoms, and the tops consisted of a coarse kind of leather. I have never felt so proud since of a pair of shoes.

An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work Illustrated by Frank Beard (1842-1905) Published 1901 pages 16-17

Read Washington's book in its original format here: (via The Internet Archive, UNC-Chapel Hill Library​) https://archive.org/details/autobiographysto00wash

Sources:

Getty Images​ http://www.gettyimages.com/license/640487221

Find A Grave​ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143014999#view-photo=138116670

Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War, edited by J. Matthew Gallman​ and Gary W. Gallagher​, University of Georgia Press​, Apr 15, 2015

pages 180-181, 183

(via Google Books) https://books.google.com/books?id=BRHUCgAAQBAJ&dq

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