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This is a photograph of a group of children standing in front of a wooden church building. The children are dressed in a mix of light and dark colored clothing. The background includes the church, trees, and a white picket fence.
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This is a photograph of a group of children standing in front of a wooden church building. The children are dressed in a mix of light and dark colored clothing. The background includes the church, trees, and a white picket fence.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

"The Colored School, Vicksburg, Mississippi"

James M. Davis

Date
1891
Medium
stereoscopic albumen silver prints
Dimensions
image/sheet (each): 7.6 × 7.6 cm (3 × 3 in.) mount: 8.8 × 17.9 cm (3 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2023.39.130
Credit line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CPH
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • portrait
  • American
  • School
  • African American
  • Students
  • Mississippi
  • Stereograph
Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Inscription

along left edge of mount printed in black ink: JAMES M. DAVIS. / New York City, and St. Louis, Mo; along right edge: Copyright 1891, by B. W. Kilburn.; bottom right: 6584. The Colored school, Vicksburg, Miss., U. S. A.; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: AF70E / 8.2021 KE [underlined]; center printed in black ink: Photographed and Published by / B. W. Kilburn, = Littleton, N. H.

NGA object ID 227148. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.