Bob Brooks' Photographic Portrait of Africville in the 1960s
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Bird's eye view of Africville, showing its location on Bedford Basin, with north end Halifax and the Narrows in the background. Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16
Two Africville children, with Seaview African United Baptist Church and houses behind it in the distance. Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16
Halifax city dump with Seaview African United Baptist Church and Africville houses in the background. Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16
Canadian National freight train passing through Africville. Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16 Negative no.: neg. sheet 5, image 8
Rear view of Seaview African United Baptist Church, with Africville houses and laundry flapping in the breeze in the foreground. Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16 Negative no.: neg. sheet 5, image 16
View overlooking the back of Seaview African United Baptist Church, Africville. Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16 Negative no.: neg. sheet 4, image 19
Africville houses on either side of a hillside lane, seen from the opposite side of the railroad tracks. Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16 Negative no.: neg. sheet 4, image 29
About 15 Africville houses, with a well and nearby sign reading, "Please boil this water before drinking and cooking." Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16 Negative no.: neg. sheet 6, image 31
Boys beside Canadian National railcar, Africville, with "Please boil this water before drinking and cooking" sign in foreground. Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16 Negative no.: neg. sheet 18, image 37
Two boys lifting the cover of a well, Africville, with nearby sign reading, "Please boil this water before drinking and cooking." Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16 Negative no.: neg. sheet 4, image 33
Another of Africville's wells with a sign reading, "Please boil this water before drinking and cooking." Date: ca. 1965 Reference no.: Bob Brooks NSARM 1989-468, box 16 Negative no.: neg. sheet 4, image 8