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[Letter on official stationary from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md., notifying an applicant that no colored students are accepted"]" – Historic Print

[Letter on official stationary from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md., notifying an applicant that no colored students are accepted"]", 1926 Feb. 22. — historic photograph
[Letter on official stationary from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md., notifying an applicant that no colored students are accepted"]", 1926 Feb. 22.. Historic photograph from the Baltimore 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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Step back in time with [Letter on official stationary from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Md., notifying an applicant that no colored students are accepted"]", a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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In 1926, the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore sent a letter informing an applicant that it did not accept colored students, and this photographic print preserves that refusal in the institution's own words. Peabody was one of the city's best-known music schools, and it kept Black musicians out during an era when segregation was the norm across Maryland. The NAACP collected letters like this one as evidence in its campaign against racial barriers in education. The print is a copy held within the association's records at the Library of Congress.

Created / published1926 Feb. 22.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesForms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Collection finding aid available.
SubjectsPeabody Conservatory of Music--Recruiting & enlistment--Maryland--Baltimore--1920-1930. African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--Baltimore--1920-1930. Race discrimination--Maryland--Baltimore--1920-1930. Correspondence--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,289 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117354

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