The colored school Charleston S.C. U.S.A. – Antique 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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The colored school Charleston S.C. U.S.A. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The colored school Charleston S.C. U.S.A.
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Few stereographs of this period name their subject as directly as this one: a school for Black students in Charleston, South Carolina, with girls among those pictured. Benjamin West Kilburn, whose studio was in Littleton, New Hampshire, issued views like this in large numbers for parlor stereoscopes, so the card shows how northern households encountered the postwar South. Schools for formerly enslaved people and their children had expanded rapidly in Charleston after emancipation, many with support from northern missionary societies, and by the 1890s education had become a visible measure of that effort.
| Created / published | 1891 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from item. Copyright by B.W. Kilburn. No. 6680. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Education--South Carolina--Charleston--1890-1900. Girls--South Carolina--Charleston--1890-1900. Education--South Carolina--Charleston--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,608 × 2,217 px · prints to 15 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-268024 |
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