Behind the photographs | Stories of UC Berkeley Library

DAVID JOHNSON’S ARCHIVE is extensive, with subjects ranging from jazz musicians to civil rights activists to ordinary people. Want to learn more about the photographs? Click on an image below to hear the stories behind the works — in Johnson’s own voice.

An African-American child holding a flag and sitting on the lap of a statue of Abraham Lincoln

An African-American child sitting on concrete steps

A man playing bass at a jazz club in the Fillmore district.

Men getting their hair cut in a barber shop

A man sitting on a skateboard on a sidewalk

The corner of Post and Fillmore streets in San Francisco

[David Johnson photograph archive], BANC PIC 2017.001. © The Regents of the University of California, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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