Roberts, Richard Samuel

Harris, Charles “Teenie”

1908-1998

Spent roughly four decades as staff and freelance photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, amassing an archive of nearly 80,000 images — now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art — that forms one of the largest and richest visual chronicles of 20th-century Black urban life in the United States

Scurlock, Addison Norton

1883-1964

Built the Scurlock Studio into the definitive photographic chronicle of Black Washington, D.C., for six decades, becoming Howard University's official photographer and the portraitist whose work signified having “arrived socially” in the city's Black community

Bedou, Arthur Paul

1882-1966

Served as Booker T. Washington’s personal photographer from 1908 until Washington’s 1915 death, then built a nearly six-decade career as one of New Orleans’s leading studio photographers, documenting Black Creole family life, Xavier University, and the city’s Catholic institutions

Washington, Augustus

1820-1875

Built one of the most successful daguerreotype studios in antebellum Hartford, Connecticut, then emigrated to Liberia in 1853 to become one of the earliest professional photographers to work in West Africa, documenting the young republic’s political and merchant elite