A community-based photo exhibition in Richmond, Virginia — a city at the center of a lot of Black history — showcases portraits of African Americans across the centuries for Black History Month.

The photos can be seen on storefronts along East Main Street and nearby streets in the city's Shockoe Bottom area. The region along the James River played a historical role in the nation's interstate slave trade.

The pictures tell individual stories that collectively highlight the daily lives of African Americans from the early 1800s to the 1980s within the context of labor, which the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) named as the theme for this year's Black History Month.

The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia partnered with the City of Richmond and Venture Richmond to collect and display more than two dozen large photos.

"BHMVA has partnered to create this exhibition in alignment with the ASALH theme to pay homage to our ancestors who were brought to America for their skills, expertise, and intellectual capital, all of which were instrumental in building this nation," the museum's website reads.

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This outdoor exhibition will be available for viewing throughout February. For more information, visit the Black History Museum's website.

This story was originally published by Scripps News Richmond.