These stunning images bring to life the struggles and hardships of ordinary people living through some of the most turbulent years in American history.
At a time when segregation laws were being introduced, the last battles with Native Americans were fought and restrictions on immigrants were first implemented, one photographer documented the people who lived through these times.
Hugh Mangum documented the South as the 'Jim Crow' laws were coming into effect to take a close-up look at life and work of early 20th century.
The personalities in Mangum's images show everyday life, depicting the triumphs and struggles of many facing disenfranchisement, racial segregation and inequality during this pivotal era in American history.
Born in 1877, the year the Civil War's Reconstruction period ended, Mangum died in 1922, only three years after the First World War and two years after women gained the right to vote.
He traveled across the South, primarily working in his home state of North Carolina and the Virginias, Mangum pictured subjects from across racial and economic divides.
Mangum used a camera designed to create multiple and distinct exposures on a single glass plate negative to capture his fascinating subjects' portraits.
A century after their making, Mangum's photographs reveal the faces of the past and an unusually insightful glimpse of the South at the turn of the 20th century.
For the first time Mangum's work has been published in a new book, Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum by Sarah Stacke with texts by Maurice Wallace and Martha Sumler - Hugh Mangum’s granddaughter.
This picture shows a group of men working in a chain gang. The Southern Reconstruction era spawned the first chain gangs, which saw prisoners shackled together and forced to do manual labor to repay their debt to society. The picture was printed from modern negative generated from a high-resolution scan
This image was printed from the original glass plate negative and shows two women playing instruments. This stunning set of photographs have been published for the first time in a new book made in collaboration with Hugh Mangum's granddaughter, Martha Sumler, and features never-before-seen photographs and ephemera from their family archive
In this collection of portraits Hugh Mangum pictured himself in the top left. He traveled across much of the South and pictured subjects of various ages from across racial and economic divides. Though the American South of his era was marked by disenfranchisement, segregation and inequality, Mangum portrayed all his sitters with candor and heart, as well as showing them as individuals, author Sarah Stacke said
Another self-portrait image of photographer Hugh Mangum sitting alongside his wife Annie. He was said to
