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Memoirs of Other Days.
Family album with
over 200 photographs of various size, as well as postcards and other mementos of travel;
first couple of pages loose, but otherwise in excellent condition.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Vp, circa 19 teens-1920’s
[600/800]
An exceptional family album, beautifully and whimsically captioned throughout. Chronicles
every day events in the life of a black family in the days just prior to and following World War
I. Each page carries a little printed “saying” in addition to whatever remark or captions there
might be, for example: “Dig the well before you are thirsty” It is apparent that this was a mili-
tary family and there are numerous photos of people in uniform; one however is rather odd. A
group photograph titled “L.M. Corps-Camp Little.” Pasted at the foot of the page is the fol-
lowing: “We pardon easily a wrong in which we participate.”
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The Henderson Negro Institute
Baseball Team.
Silver print photograph,
5 x 7 inches, on the original photogra-
pher’s mount, overall size 7
3
⁄
4
x 9
7
⁄
8
inches.
[North Carolina, circa 1921
[600/800]
Fine image of the Henderson Negro Institute
baseball team with their coach or manager.
Sitting in front, in a three pieced suit is their
well-dressed “bat-boy.” The school was origi-
nally established in 1887 in Bluestone, VA
(near Clarksville) by the United Presbyterian
Church but was later moved to Henderson in
1891. The school’s objective was to give black
people an opportunity to obtain a good educa-
tion. While the school was operated primarily
to educate black teachers who were housed on
the campus, it also taught pupils of all ages.
The school remained in operation until 1970
when it was closed as a high school due to inte-
gration.
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