Historical Photograph: Group School Children

Penn School

Historical Photograph: Group School Children

c. 1862-1864

Historical Photograph

The Library of Congress features a photo, by Erastus Hubbarb, taken between 1862 and 1864, which shows a group portrait of four young African American children and one White child standing outside in front of trees at 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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