Virginia, 1975-2016

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This series houses 76 11x14 inch black-and-white photographs taken mainly in the Halifax, Virginia area; other locations include the towns of Danville and Virgilina, and various locations in Franklin and Pittsylvania Counties. Andrews conducted oral history interviews with some of the individuals; these are available in the form of digital audio files upon advance request.

Many of the portraits form part of the Carter-Wooding Project and are primarily of farmers. Additional subjects include small business operators, townspeople, musicians, and rural farms and landscapes.

A note from the photographer on the the Carter-Wooding project: "The Carter-Wooding project is something I started in the late 1990s, documenting the 'old Carter farm' in Halifax County, where I now live. The property was originally a 5000-acre land grant from King George, divided into five parcels and given to the five (then) Carter brothers. As was common at that time, the Woodings and Carters intermarried over several generations, thus the name. The Woodings were prominent early settlers in both Halifax and Pittsylvania Counties. The Carters were prominent Virginia settlers since the beginning. The land grant extended from the Banister river, which borders the north side of Halifax (town), northward up what is now Rt. 501. It was probably little more than a footpath then. There are two fragments of the land grant remaining, one of them being a 200 acre parcel (the old Carter farm) and another smaller parcel located about a mile north of the other. One of them is owned by a friend of mine, who is in one of the photographs in the collection, an image of him standing in the doorway of the pack barn. His father is seated on the step in front of him. His father, Robert Wooding, died in 2004, and took a great deal of history with him. His son, Robbie (my friend) still lives on the farm and still grows a little dark-fired tobacco."

A selection of these prints were digitized and are featured on the Duke Digital Collections website. Links to the digital images are in the series entry for each digitized print.

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Photographs are arranged in order as received. Original titles, captions, and negative identifiers as assigned by the photographer have been retained. Each print has also been assigned an institutional identifier.

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Access restricted. Collection contains fragile audiovisual items in the form of original compact discs with oral history recordings. They are closed to use.

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