Historical Photograph: Students Near Penn School

Penn School

Historical Photograph: Students Near Penn School

c. 1899-1905

Historical Photograph

The University of North Carolina Special Collections Library features a photo, by Helen C. Jenks, taken between 1899 and 1905 that shows African American students, dressed in formal attire, gathered in a field near Penn School- one of the first schools for formerly enslaved African Americans established on St. Helena Island in Beaufort, South Carolina.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Contributor: Penn School)

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