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The Roberts, who migrated to Riviera from the Bahamas in 1915, sit daily under the mango trees in the back yard.

The Roberts, who migrated to Riviera from the Bahamas in 1915, sit daily under the mango trees in the back yard.

Credit this photo: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/166219
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Title

  • The Roberts, who migrated to Riviera from the Bahamas in 1915, sit daily under the mango trees in the back yard.

Image Number

  • Pr25416

Year

  • 1939

Date Note

  • Photographed in May 1939.

Series Title

General Note

  • L-R: Clarence Sands, Georgie Sands, Wilbur Roberts, Phyllis Smith, William Keye, Mary Jane Roberts, Betty Jean Smith, Bernice Smith.

    Biography Note

  • In the summer of 1939, Works Projects Administration (WPA) photographer and artist Charles C. Foster was assigned to take photographs for Florida Writers Project (FWP) writer Veronica Huss' profile of the "Conchs" (Bahamian immigrants) of Riviera Beach. Armed with his Reflex-Korelle single-lens camera and four rolls of 12 exposure black and white film, Foster spent the day photographing Veronica and her subjects - immigrants from the Bahamas, who were derisively referred by locals as "Conchs". While the book was never published, the WPA's Florida Art Project used the images for a traveling exhibit titled "Conch Town" that toured the nation between 1939 and 1943.

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Physical Description

  • 1 photoprint - sepia - 11 x 11 in.

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The Roberts, who migrated to Riviera from the Bahamas in 1915, sit daily under the mango trees in the back yard.
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