On Friday, under the supervision of University of Virginia history professor John Edwin Mason, portraits of African Americans in Charlottesville taken by Rufus Holsinger in the later 1800s and early 1900s were installed around the construction site that will become UVA’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers.
In the photo above, two Facilities Management employees affix a portrait of Bill Hurley, taken in 1909. Hurley was the coachman for Mayor J. Samuel McCue. (McCue, incidentally, has the dubious distinction of being the last man hung in Charlottesville, executed for shooting his wife.)
In all, there are more than 30 portraits on the site.