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Normal School [Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute], Hampton, Va. – Antique Print

Normal School [Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute], Hampton, Va., [between 1890 and 1906] — historic photograph
Normal School [Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute], Hampton, Va., [between 1890 and 1906]. 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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Normal School [Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute], Hampton, Va. 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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Normal School [Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute], Hampton, Va.

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Few schools in Virginia have a more consequential history than the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, shown here with its waterfront in view. Founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association and Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the school trained formerly enslaved people and their children as teachers and farmers, and Booker T. Washington was among its best-known students. The Detroit Publishing Company made this large glass negative between 1890 and 1906, when it was recording American towns, landmarks and institutions across the country. The shoreline in the view reflects the campus's位置 on the waters of Hampton Roads.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 11 x 14 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesListed in Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0825. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsTeachers' colleges. Educational facilities. Waterfronts.United States--Virginia--Hampton.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 770 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77716

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