Browse Items (7 total)

Once the center of Charleston’s commerce, these homes have since been purchased and restored by Dorothy Legge. The name “Rainbow Row” was coined with these buildings due to their wide variety of vibrant colors. These 1700s style buildings used to be…

Adopted by Dubose Heyward, this section of Church Street is responsible for inspiring “Catfish Row” in his story “Porgy”. This story was eventually turned into the opera production “Porgy and Bess” which depicts black life in the 1920s in Charleston.…

Two young girls near a home in Calheta. The girl on the right appears to be re-using a toothpaste box to collect rocks or shells (unknown).

Residents of a village in, what is believed to be, Calheta, a small, coastal village. The streets are lined with homes, many of which are concrete but some are older stone houses.

A shady cobblestone street in Calheta is lined on both sides by stone houses. Calheta is a small coastal village on Maio.

This photo features what appears to be the interior town of Rabil, Boa Vista. Homes in this area are usually either made with mud-brick, concrete, or stone. The town streets are all very flat, rather deserted, and covered in rocks.

This photo was take off shore from Sal Rei, the principal city on Boavista. Homes can be seen lining the beach as well as beached vessels.