Sujet

Diploma awarded to William A.Yancey by Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, June 12, 1873. Creators: Unknown, Samuel Smith Kilburn.

Légende

Diploma awarded to William A.Yancey by Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, June 12, 1873. Hampton Institute in Virginia was founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School. It was established by black and white leaders of the American Missionary Association after the US Civil War to provide education to freedmen. It later became Hampton University. 'The Trustees and officers...hereby certify that William A.Yancey has completed, with credit, a [three?] years' course of instruction in this Institution, and they hereby recommend him as competent to teach a Graded school. In testimony whereof, the undersigned have affixed our signatures...[illegible] President Board of Trustees, Principal'.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23A19_397

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

40,8Mo (1,5Mo) / 35,8cm x 28,6cm / 4225 x 3374 (300dpi)

Mots clés

North America building people black library university college education country design Virginia text location century teaching document degree African American African-American qualification diploma afro-american lettering public library MONOCHROME United States of America 19th century graphic design Institute New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL heritage American America USA Hampton University united states Unknown cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art diplomas HBCUs Historically Black Colleges and Universities 19th-century Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School Hampton Institute Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Samuel Smith Kilburn Kilburn Samuel Smith