African Burial Ground, New York, New York

Architect: Rodney Leon.
Began in 1991, when, during excavation for a new federal office building, workers discovered the skeletal remains of more than 400 free and enslaved Africans. The site is a national Monument and is the single-most important, historic urban archaelogical project undertaking in the United States. Built in 2007.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.
Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083).
Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.