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Profile: Leo Antony (Tony) Gleaton (1948-2015)

Leo Antony (Tony) Gleaton was an American photographer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he moved with his family to California at the age of 11. He joined the Marines after high school, then pursued a college degree at the University of California Los Angeles, where he became interested in photography. A large portion of his work was about capturing images of African displacement in the West (the Americas) and its influence. He was also well known for his photography of black cowboys. Gleaton died in his home in Palo Alto, CA, on August 14, 2015, after a long battle with oral cancer. Continue reading Profile: Leo Antony (Tony) Gleaton (1948-2015)

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Profile: Peter Salem (1750-1816)

Peter Salem was an American Moor from Massachusetts who served as a U.S. soldier in the American Revolutionary War. Born into slavery in Framingham, he was freed by a later master, Major Lawson Buckminster, to serve in the local militia. He then enlisted in the Continental Army, serving for nearly five years during the war. Afterward, he married and worked as a cane weaver. A monument was erected to him in the late 19th century at his grave in Framingham. Continue reading Profile: Peter Salem (1750-1816)

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Profile: Robert A. Gilbert (1870-1942)

Robert Alexander Gilbert was an African-American nature photographer. Gilbert was a servant and field assistant to the ornithologist William Brewster from 1896 or 1897 until Brewster’s death in 1919 and was later employed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. His photographic work while employed by Brewster went uncredited until the publication of a book-length biography on Gilbert by John Hanson Mitchell, Looking for Mr. Gilbert: The Unlikely Life of the First African American Landscape Photographer Continue reading Profile: Robert A. Gilbert (1870-1942)

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