Hampton Institute-Girls passing Mansion House, [Hampton Institute, Va.

Title: Girls passing Mansion House, [Hampton Institute, Va.] [graphic].

Date: April 24, 1912

Photographer: Marriott Canby Morris, 1863-1948.

Physical Description: 1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 3 x 5 in.

Geographic subject: Hampton (Va.)

Genre: Gelatin silver prints.

Location: Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris
Collection [P.9895.2121]

Accession number P.9895.2121

Collections: Marriott C. Morris Collection Prints - African Americana Photographs

Description: Photograph shows a group of women students, attired in white dresses, marching in lines across a lawn at the Hampton Institute.

Walking in front of the women are four African American men, attired in uniforms and caps, two of which carry an American and a “H.I.” flag.

They march past the Mansion House, with its columned portico. In the left background, several women walk on the grass.

The Hampton Institute, originally the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, was founded in 1868 by the American Missionary Association to provide education for freed Black citizens after the Civil War.

It was built on the grounds of a former plantation, known as Little Scotland.

The school was legally chartered in 1870 and accredited as a university in 1984.

Notable graduates include Booker T. Washington.

The Mansion House was the original residence of the plantation built in 1828.