Exhibit displays Bay Shore's black history
Photo credit: James T. Johnathan | James T. Johnathan took this photograph of himself with his automobile and an unidentified young boy, possibly in the early 1920s.
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He was born a scant generation after slavery's end, in the Virginia ruins of the old Confederacy. After he died in relative obscurity in Bay Shore nearly 80 years later, much of his life's work faded like the old photographs that they were.
But over a career that spanned at least five decades, Bay Shore photographer James T. Johnathan used a camera to open a window into life on pre-suburban...
