Historical Photograph: Back Steps to the School, Miss Laura M. Towne & Miss Ellen Murray

Laura Towne

Historical Photograph: Back Steps to the School, Miss Laura M. Towne & Miss Ellen Murray

1899

Historical Photograph

The University of North Carolina Special Collections Library presents an 1899 photo, by Helen C. Jenks, of the Penn School building on St. Helena Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina. African American women and children are seen walking and standing around the building, while Laura Matilda Towne and Ellen Murray - both White abolitionists, missionaries, and educators from the North - stand at the top of the steps at the back of the school.

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The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina (Contributor: Penn Center)

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