https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/alfred-jackson International Center for Photography

Andrew Joseph Thuss, Thuss, William Gustav Thuss [Alfred Jackson]

Date ca. 1900 Location Nashville Tennessee United States Dimensions Image: 5 11/16 x 4 in. (14.4 x 10.1 cm) Mount: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (16.5 x 10.8 cm) Print medium Photo-Gelatin silver The sitter is "Uncle Alfred," one of Andrew Jackson's slaves at the Hermitage outside of Nashville. Alfred Jackson (ca. 1812-1901), the head coachman, was the son of Betty, Jackson's cook. After emancipation, Alfred stayed at the Hermitage as a tenant farmer and eventually led tours when the house was turned into a museum in 1889. This image was probably taken at the Thuss studio in Nashville but such images were likely sold at the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, where the brothers operated a studio and where Uncle Alfred was featured. Integral parts of Nashville's photographic community at the turn of the twentieth century, the Thusses opened their first studio in 1889 and a second one in 1916. Their partnership dissolved the following year and each ran his own studio under the Thuss name.

Credit line Gift of Daniel Cowin, 1990