Races, Negroes: United States. Virginia. Hampton. Hampton Normal and Industrial School: Agencies Promoting Assimilation of the Negro. Development of Social Standards Among the Negroes. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va.: Seniors Reading Shakespeare.

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 3.2002.238
People: Frances Benjamin Johnston, American (Grafton, WV 1864 - 1952 New Orleans, LA)
Title: Races, Negroes: United States. Virginia. Hampton. Hampton Normal and Industrial School: Agencies Promoting Assimilation of the Negro. Development of Social Standards Among the Negroes. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va.: Seniors Reading Shakespeare.
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Social Museum Collection
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: display board
Date: 1899-1900
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States, Virginia, Hampton
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/159727

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Platinum print
Dimensions: image: 15.2 x 23.4 cm (6 x 9 3/16 in.)
mount: 35.5 x 56 cm (14 x 22 1/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection
Accession Year: 2011
Object Number: 3.2002.238
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Sarah Hermanson Meister, Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album, The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2019), p. 340, ill.

Exhibition History

32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/18/2019 - 10/17/2019

Subjects and Contexts

The Social Museum Collection

Verification Level

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3.2002.238: Races, Negroes: United States. Virginia. Hampton. Hampton Normal and Industrial School: Agencies Promoting Assimilation of the Negro. Development of Social Standards Among the Negroes. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va.: Seniors Reading Shakespeare.