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(EDUCATION.)
“Colored Graded City School for Nicholasville, Kentucky.”
Albumen photograph, 4
3
/
4
x 8 inches, on the original cardstock mount; a couple of closed
cracks to the bottom edge of the mount.
Kentucky, circa 1900
[800/1,200]
An exceptional image of a small, one-room schoolhouse in Kentucky. A sign over the doorway reads
“Colored Graded City School Graded 1-3.” It was probably placed there for this photo, or perhaps
something the photographer added to the negative. A note on Kentucky’s early colored schools does
mention the Dunbar school in Nicholasville moving into a four room brick structure around 1920.
This suggests a much smaller previous school, probably the one pictured here.
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(EDUCATION—WASHINGTON,
BOOKER T.)
Two silver print pho-
tographs of Washington by Arthur P.
Bedou: Washington on his favorite
mount, “Dexter,” and Washington in
his study.
7 x 8
3
/
4
and 5
3
/
8
x 3
3
/
4
inches,
both slightly trimmed and bearing traces
of black paper from an album; the smaller
with Bedou’s white lettered stamp in the
negative; the larger with a small puncture
at the top right corner not affecting the
image.
Tuskegee, AL, circa 1900
[600/900]