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Another rare image of women and men displaying their fresh catch on the James River in Virginia, 1915.

This photograph depicts the recently restored kitchen of Gunston Hall, where enslaved people, especially bondswomen, would have prepared the meals that fed Mason family members and guests.

A photograph of African-American shad fishermen on the James River in Virginia, circa early 1910s

"Inventory of the goods and Chattels belonging to the Estate of George Mason of Lexington deceased taken on the Tenth day of January One thousand seven hundred and Ninety seven"

This oil painting is a reproduction of the wedding portrait of George Mason IV and Ann Eilbeck Mason (1734-1773); the bride was sixteen-years-old when she married in April 1750 on the Charles County, Maryland, plantation called Mattawoman.

A drawing of enslaved people fishing in the Albemarle Sound of North Carolina.

This work was among the medical books willed to George Mason by his uncle, John Mercer.

This ledger entry shows that George Mason IV's neighbor Martin Cockburn (1731-1820), a white planter born in Jamaica, paid Gunston Nell, an enslaved woman of Gunston Hall, for her expertise in delivering a baby. This originally hand-written document…

This photograph depicts the narrow stairs that enslaved people of Gunston Hall were forced to use when moving between the first and second floors of George Mason IV's home.

Pictured in this photograph is a horizon view from the back of the manor. The area containing Mason family gardens in the 1700s extends away from the path lined by dwarf boxwood trees. In the distant left corner of the image is the Potomac River. On…