Roger Williams University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1916 – Antique Photo Print
(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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Roger Williams University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1916 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Roger Williams University, Nashville, Tennessee, A. M. Townsend, Pres.
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Roger Williams University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1916
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Roger Williams University in north Nashville, Tennessee, was a Black Baptist school in 1916, part of a network of institutions that northern Baptist mission societies had founded after the Civil War to train teachers and ministers for formerly enslaved people and their children. Nashville at that time was the state capital and a rail center, with the Louisville and Nashville and the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis lines shaping its growth. Its Black community supported a dense web of churches, schools, and businesses, and Nashville was becoming a publishing center for African American religious literature. The campus, like much of Tennessee in the years before the First World War, operated under segregation, and its students and faculty worked within the limits that Jim Crow laws imposed on Black education and civic life.
| Created / published | 1916 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Tennessee |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,535 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Roger Williams University, Nashville, Tennessee, A. M. Townsend, Pres. |
| Reference | TN 1916 Roger Williams University, Nashville |
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