Kitchen Table History

Kitchen Table History

a visual love letter to black women

i love you, i love you, i love you

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Jessica Marie Johnson
Oct 04, 2025
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Dark nights, lonely mornings, but we remain.

Portrait of a Black woman by Olide Schexnayder, circa 1890s

Woman with a basket by Alfred Rudolph Waud, circa 1871
Group portrait of African American musicians by Abel J. LeBlanc, circa 1909-1920
Sketch of two Negro women by Alfred Rudolph Waud, 1870s
Praline Mammy by Corinna Morgianna Luria
On the Levee, New Orleans by Alfred Waud, 1871
French Market N. O. by William Woodward, 1891
Portrait of an African-American Woman Holding an Ewer by Selina Elizabeth Bres, circa 1893-1896

Held at State Library of Louisiana, Historic New Orleans Collection, Louisiana State University Special Collections via the Louisiana Digital Library

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