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Professor Wallace Caldwell (1890–1961) with unnamed domestic
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North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- Original image housed by North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, University of North Carolina
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In this black and white photograph, a young black woman is serving Professor Caldwell at a dining table.
The college servants were all men, but African American women often worked for faculty families. Due to domestic servants’ low wages, even modestly paid professors could hire servants.
