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The Lincoln gates, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. – Vintage Print

The Lincoln gates, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., c1906. — historic photograph
The Lincoln gates, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., c1906.. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: The Lincoln gates, Tuskegee Institute, Ala., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The Lincoln Gates stand at the entrance to Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the school Booker T. Washington founded in 1881 to train Black students in teaching and practical trades. The gates were built as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln and to emancipation, and they became one of the campus's best-known landmarks. This view was made around 1906 as a large 8 by 10 inch glass negative by the Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American towns, landscapes and institutions for sale as prints and postcards. Its catalog markings show it passed through several hands before reaching the Library of Congress, and it preserves how the entrance looked in the school's early decades.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 3658" and "58" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019465. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUniversities & colleges. Gates. African Americans--Education.United States--Alabama--Tuskegee.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62866

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