Author: Johnston,
Title: The Hampton Album: 44 photos by Frances B. Johnston.
Description: NY, Museum of Modern Art, (1966). VG PB. Photos made for the 1900 Paris Exposition by Frances Benjamin Johnstson as part of an exhibition demonstrating contemporary. life of the American Negro. These photos conspire to place Hampton Institute in a uniquely symbolic position in American social history and educational philosophy. to place it in the era of Reconstruction in its first steps after the Civil towards the essential, not the legal, enfranchisement of the Negro." Photos show blacks in various workshops learning trades etc.

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