Mobile Photography

Going Nowhere

Black And White Photography, David Jensen, iPhoneography, Mobile Photography

This truck is done hauling and now rests in a lovely mountain town for the benefit of tourists.

More of my photography can be found on my website and my blog.

Room for a Family

Black And White Photography, Laurie, Mobile Photography, Photography

In my previous two posts, Hallway for the Enslaved and Where They Worked and Lived I told of visiting the Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston. Purchased by the Historic Charleston Foundation in 1975, the house is being “preserved as found” and represents a stark example of the wealthy vs the urban enslaved, c 1820s.

This image is of a windowless room that housed an entire family.

From the website we learn that “while many dependency buildings in Charleston have been demolished or adapted, the Aiken-Rhett House’s kitchen, laundry and quarters – with their original paint, floors and fixtures – survive virtually untouched since the 1850s, allowing visitors the unique chance to better comprehend the every-day realities of the enslaved Africans who lived on-site, maintained the household and catered to the needs of the Aiken family and their guests”.

Where They Worked and Lived

Black And White Photography, Laurie, Mobile Photography, Photography

In my previous post, Hallway for the Enslaved, I told of visiting the Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston. Purchased by the Historic Charleston Foundation in 1975, the house is being “preserved as found” and represents a stark example of the wealthy vs the urban enslaved, c 1820s.

From the website we learn that “while many dependency buildings in Charleston have been demolished or adapted, the Aiken-Rhett House’s kitchen, laundry and quarters – with their original paint, floors and fixtures – survive virtually untouched since the 1850s, allowing visitors the unique chance to better comprehend the every-day realities of the enslaved Africans who lived on-site, maintained the household and catered to the needs of the Aiken family and their guests”.

Hallway for the Enslaved

Black And White Photography, Laurie, Mobile Photography, Photography

While visiting family in Charleston, SC, we toured the Aiken-Rhett Museum. The house and its surviving furnishings offer a compelling portrait of urban life in antebellum Charleston. Purchased by the Historic Charleston Foundation in 1975, the house is being “preserved as found” and represents a stark example of the wealthy vs the urban enslaved, c 1820s.

I’ll be sharing more from this tour as the weeks go on, but for now this hallway connected the quarters of the enslaved as well as the kitchen and laundry.

Of course I forgot my camera, so all photos from the Aiken-Rhett Museum are from my Samsung Galaxy.