Bricklayers at Vocational Training Center, Johannesburg
odd: label: Local Note
content: Original Constance Stuart Larrabee Number: 36-100
label: Local Note
content: Contact Sheet Number: 332089-16
name: label: Creator
content: Larrabee, Constance Stuart
label: Collection Photographer
content: Larrabee, Constance Stuart
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: South Africa
label: Place
content: Johannesburg (South Africa)
creator: label: Creator
content: Larrabee, Constance Stuart
setName: label: See more items in
content: Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection
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content: Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection / Series 1: Photographs / Photographs / "Johannesburg Black Man" Series and Father Huddleson with Children, Pimville
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Negatives (photographic) ((silver gelatin)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print ((contact print)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Photographic print ((dupe print)., b&w, 8 x 10 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1948
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1998-006, Item EEPA 1998-061707
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Bricklayers at Vocational Training Center, Johannesburg, 1948. Photographic image of two men standing behind a brick wall laying down bricks. They are holding trowels, a tool used to spread the cement between the bricks. This is at the Johannesburg Vocational Training Center. Young men are trained at the center to become tailors, builders, carpenters, and cabinet makers. The training is free. Photograph by Constance Stuart Larrabee, 1948.
label: Scope and Contents
content: In 1945, Constance Stuart returned from her assignment as the first female South African war correspondent in World War II. Her reputation as a photographer grew. She maintained a photographic studio in Pretoria and Johannesburg. This series of images which she entitled "Johannesburg Black Man" depict life in downtown Johannesburg and in parts of the city, where Black South Africans lived, such as Sophiatown, Pimville, and Newclare. A second series of images focuses on Father Huddleston's work in Sophiatown. In 1948-1949, in the early days of apartheid, Stuart documented the building of the South Western townships (Soweto) and the way Africans adjusted to this new environment.
label: Scope and Contents
content: There are no prints of this negative in the Constance Stuart Larrabee Collection. EEPA produced an 8x10 study print for reference purposes.