Research: Looking for Descendants
Are you a descendant of one of the early African American families who lived on the land that is now Historic Greenbelt? Or do you have knowledge of African American workers who helped build Greenbelt? Please contact us. We would love to hear your stories!
And about the photo above (by Carl Mydans): The gentleman in the picture is a hod carrier who worked on the Greenbelt project in July 1936. He is holding a hod, which is used to transport bricks and mortar at construction sites.
Interesting post! I was reading about the July 1936 hod carrier photo and it reminded me-I've been trying out an ai photo editor to edit photos with prompt, and the online photo editor description says you can upload an image and describe changes. Maybe someday I'll restore old photos like this. Thanks for sharing!