ALCOA COLORED SCHOOL - 5 EARLY 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS

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Outside of Knoxville in East Tennessee is Alcoa , home of Alcoa Aluminum Company Of America the town is named for the company and borders Maryville Tennessee at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National park. These original glossy photographs are of Alcoa Colored School children and teachers circa 1920 as one is marked on back as such. Also , the stamp of Thompson Photo w these were developed a well known photography studio with decades of history in the Knoxville area. This was the South then and these images portray the grinding poverty blacks struggled through during those times and in these photographs are five haunting images of their time. If you look I think you'll find one child with shoes and she is in her Sunday best. Many of the children are wearing adult clothes many times to big , one on the end has his fathers shirt on with the hemn and sleeves dragging the ground. Big straw hats and caps of their fathers far too large for their heads. Captured in time is this day when all had their pictures made. The image of the handmade crafts and the girls posing with their lunch buckets is priceless behind them is my favorite. One image is of the teachers holding up some sort of banners behind the students on a porch and I really do not know what these say or the meaning but my guess is it's part of the celebration going read more

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