Negro quarters, T.J. Fripp plantation, St. Helena Island (near Beaufort), S.C.

Photograph shows a group of African American women holding babies outside of their living quarters, possibly on Thomas J. Fripp plantation on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

Handwritten caption on another copy of this stereograph from an anonymous collection not held by LC: "Infantry review" at 'quarters' on a plantation at Port Royal, South Carolina.
Attributed to photographers Hubbard & Mix by collector.
Date of photo based on years that photographers were in business together. Source: Teal, Harvey S., Partners with the sun: South Carolina Photographers, 1840-1940. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
Photograph was remounted in Sept. 1961 by Philip Batchelder.
Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.
Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.