Michael Francis Blake is credited as the first African American to open a photography studio in Charleston, South Carolina. Blake was born in 1850 in Needham, Massachusetts. He spent his formative years as a scientist on the United States Coast Survey and Darien Exploring Expedition from 1866 to 1874. After such a great experience, Blake […]
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