Historical Postcard Photograph: Sales House

The Mather School

Historical Postcard Photograph: Sales House

6/18/1922

Historical Postcard Photograph

The Lowcountry Digital Library features a 1922 postcard, by an unknown photographer, with an image of Sales House on the Mather School Campus. The Mather School was a Reconstruction Era boarding school for newly freed African American girls in Beaufort, South Carolina. The black and white postcard shows a group of three women, two older White women and one Black woman, standing in front of the Sales House holding a barrel.

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