Wofford Fitting School, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1909 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Wofford Fitting School, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1909, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Wofford Fitting School, Spartanburg, S.C.
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Wofford Fitting School, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1909
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Wofford Fitting School in Spartanburg, South Carolina, was the preparatory department of Wofford College, the Methodist-affiliated college founded in 1854. It prepared boys for college-level study at a time when public high schools were still scarce across the state. In 1909 Spartanburg was a growing Upstate city whose economy rested on cotton mills and the railroads that hauled their output, and mill work drew families from surrounding farms into town. The 1895 state constitution had already stripped most Black men of the vote, and segregation shaped daily life, so the students on these grounds grew up in a white civic order that the college largely took for granted.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Carolina |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,323 × 1,565 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wofford Fitting School, Spartanburg, S.C. |
| Reference | SC 1909 Wofford Fitting School, Spartanburg |
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