Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition

Three young women of Annapolis County

Dorothy Hill, Jean Morrison, and Evelyn Jackson in their summer dresses. Photograph was likely taken outside Inglewood, Annapolis County. The negative was developed and printed at Georgia Cunningham's studio in nearby Bridgetown. A 'colorized' version of this photo is featured in the cover illustration of George Elliott Clarke's Whylah Falls (Polestar Press, 1990).

Date: ca. 1955

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives  accession number 1989-433 series E number 1 negative number: N-5959

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