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Description

1. 14 items (.5 cubic ft., one box); 28 x 36 cm (prints), 41 x 51 cm (mats)

Summary

1. Depictions of the descendants of the Gullah people, living on St. Helena Island off Beaufort, South Carolina, from approximately 1900 to 1924, consisting of studio portraits of plantation workers, midwives, and current and former students of the Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School; a group portrait of young girls visiting the Penn health clinic; and views of Penn students working on campus, a shoe cobbling class, a meeting of home management instructors and health care providers, a group of men excavating a site for a community hall, and a nurse treating an elderly resident.

Subject

1. Gelatin silver prints > 1990-1999
2. Group portraits > 1990-1999
3. Portrait photographs > 1990-1999
4. Saint Helena Island (S.C.)
5. Gullahs > Health & welfare > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > 1900-1929
6. Gullahs > Education > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island > 1900-1929
7. Laborers > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island
8. Plantation workers > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island
9. African American students > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island
10. African American midwives > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island
11. African Americans > South Carolina
12. Gullahs > South Carolina > Saint Helena Island
13. Penn School (Saint Helena Island, S.C.)

Genre/Form

1. Portrait photographs – 1990-1999.
2. Group portraits – 1990-1999.
3. Gelatin silver prints – 1990-1999.

Call number

1. Sc Photo Portfolio (Miner, L.R. Face of an island)

Note

1. Title based on images and captions from the book "Face of an Island."
2. All photographs are matted. One item bears name of photographer handwritten on recto of mat.
3. All photographs were captured between 1900 and 1924, and later printed from the original glass plate negatives during the 1990s.
4. All prints appear in the book; two prints are combination prints of two portraits that are reproduced separately in book.

Terms of use (note)

1. Collection may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

1. Leigh Richmond Miner, 1864-1935, was a photographer, artist, educator, and botanist. Born in Cornwall, Connecticut, Miner was educated mostly in New England, and later graduated in applied arts from the Academy of Deisgn in New York City. In 1898, Miner became a drawing instructor at the Hampton Institute, in Virginia, where he would eventually become Director of Applied Arts. His interest in photography broadened in the late 1890s, resulting in images depicting the campus and community life at Hampton; the lives of the Gullah people and the campus of Penn Normal School on St. Helena Island, South Carolina (1900s-1920s); and photographic illustrations for various publications, notably for writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1890s-1900s). Miner died at Hampton in 1935.

Publications (note)

1. Face of an island : Leigh Richmond Miner's photographs of Saint Helena Island / by Edith M. Dabbs. New York : Grossman, 1971, c1970.

Author

1. Miner, Leigh Richmond, 1864-1935, photographer.

Title

1. Photographs from the book "Face of an Island" / Leigh Richmond Miner.

Production

1. [between 1990 and 1999?]

Type of content

1. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Terms of use

1. Collection may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

1. Leigh Richmond Miner, 1864-1935, was a photographer, artist, educator, and botanist. Born in Cornwall, Connecticut, Miner was educated mostly in New England, and later graduated in applied arts from the Academy of Deisgn in New York City. In 1898, Miner became a drawing instructor at the Hampton Institute, in Virginia, where he would eventually become Director of Applied Arts. His interest in photography broadened in the late 1890s, resulting in images depicting the campus and community life at Hampton; the lives of the Gullah people and the campus of Penn Normal School on St. Helena Island, South Carolina (1900s-1920s); and photographic illustrations for various publications, notably for writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1890s-1900s). Miner died at Hampton in 1935.

Publications

1. Face of an island : Leigh Richmond Miner's photographs of Saint Helena Island / by Edith M. Dabbs. New York : Grossman, 1971, c1970.

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Research call number

1. Sc Photo Portfolio (Miner, L.R. Face of an island)