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Girls of the Booker Washington School, Tuskegee, Ala. -- Mrs. McKinley in near carriage.

1899

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Washington, D.C., United States

A stereograph produced by Underwood & Underwood, dated 1899, of an outdoor scene titled: [Girls of the Booker Washington School, Tuskegee, Ala. -- Mrs. McKinley in near carriage / Copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman]. The stereograph is rectangular in shape with two identical albumen photographs that are square-shaped with a curved top edge attached to a piece of cardboard. The images feature a large procession of students in the middle of a street flanked by crowds of people. In the bottom left of each image, First Lady Ida McKinley is seated in a carriage that lines the street. The background of the photograph contains a large arch made of streamers and American flags. The left edge of the stereograph contains the following textual information: [Underwood & Underwood, Publishers / New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas] and the right side contains: [Works and Studios / Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H., Washington, D.C.].

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  • Title: Girls of the Booker Washington School, Tuskegee, Ala. -- Mrs. McKinley in near carriage.
  • Date Created: 1899
  • Physical Dimensions: H x W: 3 1/2 x 7 in. (8.9 x 17.8 cm)
  • Subject Keywords: Photography, Women, Education, HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
  • Medium: albumen, sodium chloride and silver nitrate on photographic paper and cardboard
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

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