Physics Class 1899 Hampton University Virginia Photogravure Frances Johnston

PHOTOGRAVURE BY MOONACHIE, NEW JERSEY. THE PAPER IS MOHAWK SUPERFINE TEXT, EGGSHELL.

FOREWORD: "These photographs, originally made for the Paris Exposition of 1900 by Frances Benjamin Johnston as part of an exhibition demonstrating contemporary life of the American Negro, comprise a body of work almost inexhaustibly revealing. In the following brief initial sketch of but one facet of Miss Johnston's vast labor, emphasis will be on her visual capacity rather than, as might be more fitting, her talent as a journalist, as portraitist, as architectural historian, or as a fascinating figure of American feminism in the decades from 1882 to 1952."

HAMPTON INSTITUTE VIRGINIA

"The thing to be done was clear: to train selected Negro youth who should go out and teach and lead their people, first by example, by getting land and homes; to give them not a dollar that they could earn for themselves; to teach respect for labor, to replace stupid drudgery with skilled hands; and, to build up an industrial system, for the sake not only of self-support and industrial labor but also for the sake of character. And it seemed equally clear that the people of the country would support a wise work for the freedmen."

Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute. 

Print is from The Hampton Album 44 photographs by Frances B. Johnston from an album of Hampton Institute with an introduction and a note on the photographer by Lincoln Kirstein. 1966 Publisher The Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by Doubleday

Size of sheet: 7” X 9 1/2”. Image: 7" X 5 1/2".

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