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Summary:

Print of one of the 12 images from the artist's work Through darkness to light, which retells how slaves escaping the south on the underground railroad may have experienced the journey in a series of atmospheric and evocative photographs by Jeanine Michna-Bales.

Author/Creator:

Michna-Bales, Jeanine, photographer

Contributors:

Holland Photo Imaging, printer

Photography Study Collection

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery (Dallas, Tex.), donor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Over the hills [by Michna-Bales, J.]

Included Works:

Through darkness to light: photographs along the underground railroad, a photographic essay [by Michna-Bales, J.]

Subjects:

Underground Railroad — Pictorial works

Underground Railroad

Fugitive slaves — Travel — United States — History — Pictorial works

African Americans — History — 19th century — Pictorial works

Historic sites — United States — Pictorial works

United States — History, Local — Pictorial works

1800-1899

Fugitive slaves — Travel

Fugitive slaves

African Americans

Historic sites

Local history

United States

Genres:

Laser prints — United States — Texas — 21st century

Photographs — United States — Texas — 21st century

Works by women - photographer — United States — 21st century

Pictorial works

History

General Notes:

Edition of 12.
Original photograph taken 2014. This edition printed 2019.
Gift; Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery and Jeanine Michna-Bales; 2019.

Physical Description:

1 photograph : digital chromogenic print (color) ; 42 x 56 cm

Physical Characteristics:

paper; polychrome

Call Numbers:

TR655 .M5351 2019

OCLC Numbers:

1102678919