Image: Lossy-page1-7216px-African Burial Ground, New York, New York LCCN2010719187 (edited)
Description: Title: African Burial Ground, New York, New York Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
Notes: Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083).; Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.; Began in 1991, when, during excavation for a new federal office building, workers discovered the skeletal remains of more than 400 free and enslaved Africans. The site is a national Monument and is the single-most important, historic urban archaelogical project undertaking in the United States. Built in 2007.; Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer.; Architect: Rodney Leon.; Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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