Historical Photograph: View of Penn School from the Road

Penn School

Historical Photograph: View of Penn School from the Road

c. 1890s

Historical Photograph

The University of North Carolina Special Collections Library features a photo taken by Helen C. Jenks sometime in the 1890s, the precise year is unknown, showing Penn School, one of the country's first schools for formerly enslaved African Americans established on St. Helena Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

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

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