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This photograph shows a young Black American girl in fancy clothing posing with an old man. We do not know the identity of these two people or their relationship.

Photograph of African American man, George Mero of Woodstock, ca. 1860. According to the 1860 census George Mero, age 25, lived in Woodstock with his father Hezakiah (50), mother Harriett (45), brother Charles (20), brother Sylvester (12), and…

Julius (a.k.a. Julian) Willard, 1857-1914, was a blind musician who lived with the Perham family of Cambridgeport (Rockingham), Vermont. He was the son of Linus B. and Harriet Clark Willard. The family lived in Cavendish, Chester, and Westminster,…

Julius (a.k.a. Julian) Willard poses with a ukulele with two other musicians. The woman with the banjo in thought to be his friend Alice Perham. The identity of the man with the guitar is unknown. Willard and Perham were known to give musical…

Musicians Julius (a.k.a. Julian) Willard and Alice Perham sit on a lawn swing and play their instruments.

The Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era program to provide jobs for unemployed men in the Vermont forests, brought some African-Americans to Vermont. According to some histories of the time, this was the first time that many Vermonters had…