Choose one of the photographs featured in the documentary, A True Likeness. Analyze the photograph using the prompts from the learning activity.
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A True Likeness: Introduction | Carolina Stories
An old photograph taken sometime between 1912 and 1914 is found, and experts were told to visit a Miss Hattie May Cornwell, in the Arsenal Hill community of Columbia, S.C. She not only identified the...
View AssetA True Likeness: Early Life, and Becoming a Photographer | Carolina Stories
The people in the photos; who were they? Identifying the subjects in the photos would prove to be difficult, since few records were kept of those who were photographed. The Roberts family became a...
View AssetA True Likeness: Sharing Richard Roberts' Works | Carolina Stories
The Roberts family always wanted to do something with the historic photographs they had on hand. With the cooperation of both the Roberts family and the Columbia Museum of Art, the book A True...
View AssetA True Likeness: Richard Roberts' Legacy | Carolina Stories
Throughout Richard Roberts’ works, the image of “The New Negro” is personified; that after years of slavery, there are now new opportunities, along with freedom, and upwards mobility. Roberts loved...
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