Description

Photograph taken about 1936 of the front of slave quarters at the Northampton plantation located near Largo, Prince George's County, Maryland. This building is an early 19th century one-and-one-half-story brick duplex dwelling with a gable roof covered with metal on one side (left) and wood shingles on the other (right). According to the Maryland Historical Trust Historic Site Summary done in 1974, the African American woman standing in the doorway of the dwelling was a descendant of the black farmers who had worked on the plantation. For a later view of the same structure, see pgjw030. (Editor's note: This photograph in the Wilfong Collection may be from the Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey and may have been photographed in 1936 by John O. Brostrup. When compared, the two photographs (Wilfong's and Brostrup's) appear to be identical, thus the date of Wilfong's photograph of circa 1936 and the Coverage (Time Period) of 1931-1940.)

Record Contributed By

Prince George's County Historical Society

Record Harvested From

Digital Maryland