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Open Air Market Scene (Franklin Street, East from 17th Street), Richmond, Va. - These farmer entrepreneurs sold melons at the Richmond, Virginia, market on 17th and Franklin streets. They used horse-drawn carts to transport their goods from farm to city even as others adopted the automobile. Racist language on the back of this postcard, however, blinded viewers to the superhuman efforts required to sustain crops as well as family and human dignity during the era of Jim Crow.
April 19, 1921
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Open Air Market Scene (Franklin Street, East from 17th Street), Richmond, Va.
These farmer entrepreneurs sold melons at the Richmond, Virginia, market on 17th and Franklin streets. They used horse-drawn carts to transport their goods from farm to city even as others adopted the automobile. Racist language on the back of this postcard, however, blinded viewers to the superhuman efforts required to sustain crops as well as family and human dignity during the era of Jim Crow.