Field work, Tuskegee – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Field work, Tuskegee
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Tuskegee, Alabama, is the setting named in this glass negative's title, and the record ties it to the George Grantham Bain Collection, the large body of pictures issued by the Bain News Service in New York in the early twentieth century. The title is an unverified note from the negative or its caption card, and the record gives no date, so the exact year and the people shown are unknown. Tuskegee was home to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, founded in 1881 to train Black teachers, and agricultural field work there was central to its mission of practical education for rural farming communities. Still, a field scene of this kind may show many different activities, so the picture should be read as a view of the rural South in that period rather than a documented record of a specific event.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21613 |
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