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Group of 21 silver gelatin photographs, ca 1900-1950, including some mounted on cardstock, ranging in size from approx. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. to 22 x 14 in. Most identified to various school groups via mount recto and verso inscriptions. Conditions vary, but generally fair, with toning, creasing, some significant mount wear or loss being present in several.

Highlights include: On-stage silver gelatin portrait of the "Mills Blue Rythm [sic] Band" at the famed Cotton Club in Harlem, New York. -- A printed postcard featuring students in a lecture hall or assembly room at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas. Postally used and cancelled at Marshall, 1922. -- A group portrait of the members of "Ward #1, Mt. Zion Baptist Church 1932." -- A composite photograph featuring individual oval portraits of graduates of the 1936 class at the Birmingham Alabama Industrial High School. -- An outdoor group portrait of the attendees of a YMCA camp, "Camp Osceola," taken 13 August 1940. -- A real photo postcard featuring an outdoor group portrait of students at the "Jacksonville Colored School." -- A photograph of summer school students in a chemistry classroom, credited to "The Photographic Division, C. M. Battey, Instructor, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama" in blindstamp to lower left. Captioned on verso paper label. -- And many more.