"Maple Leaf Rag" and "Bethena" by Scott Joplin

Vintage images of African Americans, mostly from the Paris Exposition of 1900, set to immortal ragtime classics by Scott Joplin.

Photo ID's:

0:34 Banjo Player by Wolfgang Hermann
0:42 Summit Avenue Ensemble, Atlanta, Georgia
0:45 Officers of Tobacco Trade Union, Petersburg, Va.
1:05 Corner in a Negro teachers' home, New Orleans, La.
1:09 Brent Woods, Medal of Honor recipient.
1:17 Louisville, KY, 1900
1:24 Amanda America Dickson: One of the most moneyed black women of the 19th century
1:30 S.J. Gilpin shoe store, Richmond, Virginia
1:36 Interior view of "Dr. McDougald's Drug Store"
1:40 Interior of Negro store, Buffalo, N.Y.
1:46 Mr. Dodson, jeweller in Knoxville, Tenn.
1:51 Press room of the Planet newspaper, Richmond, Virginia
1:56 Blacksmithing at Agricultural and Mechanical College, Greensboro, N.C.
2:02 Roger Williams University -- Nashville, Tenn.-- Ministers' class
2:06 Agricultural and Mechanical College, Greensboro, N.C. Biological laboratory
2:17 "Clarence and Alonzo," photo taken by Wilbur or Orville Wright, back of the Wright Cycle Co. in Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1900 (from Shorpy)
2:25 Three women and one man hoeing in field in Georgia
2:30 Man, standing in field, with hoe, looking upward, in Washington, D.C. or New York area
2:34 Old African American couple eating at the table by fireplace, rural Virginia
2:40 Two African American children feeding chickens in a fenced-in yard in Georgia
2:50 Patty had Puppies, Kids having fun in Pensylvania, ca.1898
2:55 Happy at home in old Alabama
3:06 Horse-drawn ice wagon in Georgia
3:10 Group of Children from the Model School, Fisk University, Nashville Tenn.
3:36 Henry A. Rucker, internal revenue collector, Atlanta, Georgia, seated at large desk in office
4:57 Three African American women at the State Fair at Saint Paul, Minn.
7:28 Sewing class at Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, Augusta, Georgia
7:34 Five female Negro officers of Women's League, Newport, R.I.
7:48 African American women on the steps of a building at Atlanta University, 1899 or 1900. Photo by Thomas E. Askew
8:46 Four elegant Victorian ladies with fans from the Alvan S. Harper (1847-1911) collection, Tallahassee c 1884 State Library and Archives of Florida

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Scott Joplin
• Maple Leaf Rag
• Bethena
• Ragtime
• Rags
• Black Americana
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Victorian
• Music

[Ed1936]

Stunning photos. Any identifications?

[Parysia77]

@Ed1936 Most of the portraits are anonymous. I have added ID details for the known photos in the information section above.

[Boomboomroomish]

African Americans in the Gay Nineties!!

[Boomboomroomish]

I wonder what the hygiene was like in those days??

[knowledgebk305]

amanda dickson is my family

[volzka]

Nice to hear Bethena played at the right tempo for the what it meaned to Joplin. I think I'm going to start playing it that way....

[SkinnyBabe38]

Wonderful video and pictures....thanks

[opensecret51]

Amazing photos so beautiful people !! Thanks Gilda !!!

[ofwhobrokewhat]

It is as though all these people are still moving around somewhere...

[ofwhobrokewhat]

Amazing photos!