292
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(EDUCATION.) Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute.
”Climbing but not
at the top.”
mounted silver print composite group photograph, 8 x 10 inches showing
oval bust portraits of a coed class from June of 1917.
Petersburg, VA, 1917
[300/400]
The 1917 graduating class from what would eventually become Virginia State University.
Founded in 1882 as the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. Tthe name was changed to
Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute in 1902.
293
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(EDUCATION.) WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.
Booker T. on his favorite
horse.
Silver print photograph, sepia-toned 4
1
⁄
4
x 6
3
⁄
8
inches, in the original photographer’s
card mount.
Tuskegee: Photographic Division L.G. Hyman, Instructor, circa 1910
[1,000/1,500]
293
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291
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(EDUCATION.) PHELPS VOCA-
TIONAL HIGH SCHOOL.
Group of 47 8
x 10 glossy photographs of the school
and school life in the 1950’s.
Mostly in
good condition with a slight “curl” at the
edges.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Washington, D.C., circa 1950’s
[500/700]
The Phelps Vocational High School was
founded in 1912 and named after Seth
Ledyard Phelps, an American Civil War naval
officer. The School specialized in teaching
young African American males in the trades of
printing, bricklaying, carpentry etc. The School
began to accept girls in 1943 when it became
the Phelps Career High School. These photos
show various events as school life in the
1950’s.
