Watering the plants

Watering the plants

Bull Run (Loudoun County-Fairfax County and Prince William County, Va.)
Women -- Virginia
Boys -- Virginia

A black woman stands on a porch of a house holding a bucket on the railings and watering plants with a ladle. The box of plants rests on top of a wooden barrel and a boy leaning against a column of the porch looks on. Caption: "This house is on Bull Run Battlefield, and at the time of the fighting was the home of a free negro. The little boy is watching his mommy water the plants."

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

Image from opposite page 346 of Highways and Byways of the South by Clifton Johnson, 1905

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CJ3236

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