Thanksgiving Day lesson at Whittier – Vintage Wall Art
![Thanksgiving Day lesson at Whittier, [1899 or 1900] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d1/d129da1ec0c4-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Thanksgiving Day lesson at Whittier in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Thanksgiving Day lesson at Whittier
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Among the Thanksgiving pictures on this board, this one shows a lesson in progress at Whittier, the primary school attached to Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia. Frances Benjamin Johnston photographed the school around 1899 and 1900, during the same period she documented Hampton's work for an exhibit of its program. Hampton, founded in 1868 to educate African American and American Indian students, trained teachers who often practiced in schools like Whittier, so the scene shows the school's methods as much as the holiday. The children's close arrangement around their teacher is worth a look, since it reflects the classroom practice the photographs were meant to present.
| Created / published | [1899 or 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1900.Group portraits 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 9. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Education--1890-1900. African Americans--Children--1890-1900. Classrooms--Virginia--Hampton--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,625 × 3,577 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-199908 |
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