[S.J. Gilpin shoe store, Richmond, Virginia]

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[S.J. Gilpin shoe store, Richmond, Virginia]

1899

https://lccn.loc.gov/90706964

Mail carrier and six other men posed standing at entrance to shop.

1 photographic print.

eng, Latn

Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 11665866

Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division

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Gilpin, St. James, 1850-1934

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St. James Gilpin was born in Richmond, Va., Dec. 30, 1850 of free parents. He learned the trade of shoe-making from his father and opened a shoe-shop for himself in 1873. Gilpin conducted one of the largest shoe establishments owned by a Black man. Despite existing prejudice, he secured a place on the main thoroughfare of Richmond. He married Miss Cordelia A. Reese in 1875; together they had nine children. ...