Flashback Digital Catalog - Baltimore Museum of Art

A close-up shows a wrinkled hand holding a knife, with a turquoise ring on the index finger. The person wears a plaid shirt.

Created in collaboration with the Baltimore Lumbee elders for the Library of Congress American Folklife Center Community Collections Program

Over the course of a year, folklorist and artist Ashley Minner Jones and artist and photographer Jill Fannon worked with 18 Lumbee elders to create a lasting record of their lives in Baltimore. In the middle of the 20th century, thousands of members of the Lumbee Tribe migrated from North Carolina to Baltimore, establishing a close-knit community centered along East Baltimore Street. Through portraiture and first-person oral histories, Beyond Baltimore Street: Living Lumbee Legacies reveals the distinct paths, memories, and traditions that have shaped Lumbee life in Baltimore. Together, these photographs and narratives offer an intimate account of identity, kinship, and place while preserving the history of Baltimore’s Lumbee community and their indelible mark on fabric of a city.

A woman with medium light skin wears glasses, a patterned blouse, and light green pants. She sits on a wooden bench next to the cement steps of a red brick building and looks directly forward. — Jill Fannon, Mary Helen Lewis (Lumbee) sits on Slim's Bench, near the corner of N. Madeira St. and E. Baltimore St., where Lumbee elders have gathered to socialize for decades from the Beyond Baltimore Street: Living Lumbee Legacies, 2024

Two adults stand smiling behind a sign that reads — Jill Fannon, Carl Dean Harding (Lumbee) and wife, Mary Harding, pose with the Indian Village sign near their Pasadena home from the Beyond Baltimore Street: Living Lumbee Legacies project, 2024

A woman with medium dark skin and shoulder-length gray hair, wearing a patterned dress and a white and yellow corsage, embraces a man with medium dark skin and a long white beard, glasses, and a baseball cap. — Jill Fannon, Minnie Sampson Maynor (Lumbee) embraces longtime friend Elree James "Peace" Locklear (Lumbee) during her 85th birthday celebration at South Broadway Baptist Church in Baltimore City from the Beyond Baltimore Street: Living Lumbee Legacies, 2024

A man in a red cap and plaid shirt leans over a black wood-burning stove set into a red brick fireplace. The mantelpiece above holds various decorative figurines and plates. A floral armchair sits to the left of the fireplace. — Jill Fannon, Howard Redell Hunt (Lumbee) shows the wood burning stove in his cozy Dundalk basement. It is surrounded by brickwork done by Carl Dean Harding (Lumbee) from the Beyond Baltimore Street: Living Lumbee Legacies, 2024