Negress Collection

Woman of Senegambia beating cotton, 18th century. She beats the raw cotton instead of carding it. She sits on a wooden bench in front of a thatched hut

Dahlia coccinea varieties: Mrs. Burbidge, Bronze and Negress. Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1884

JOSEPHINES PROPHECY
As a girl on Martinique, the future wife of Napoleon I is told by an old negress that one day she shall be a queen - and so it turns out ! Date: 1763 - 1814

Paris, France - Gare d Orsay (now the Musee d Orsay) - Advertising postcard for Vermeires Negress Pure Rice Starch. Date: circa 1904

Thessaloniki, Greece - A Venerable Black Turkish Woman pictured in the doorway of her home, surrounded by her extended family and some neighbours. Date: circa 1910s

White South African
The phrase white south African is given a new meaning by this albino negress who seems to be handy with the hatchet

Josephines Prophecy
An old negress of Martinique tells Josephine de Tascher that one day she will be a queen : sure enough, her second marriage is to Napoleon and she becomes an empress

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