Photographs depicting students on arrival at Hampton Institute and again eighteen months later. Identifications of individuals are printed on verso.
The Hampton Institute was founded in the 1860s as the Hampton Normal School, a trade and industrial school initially for African Americans. The first Native American students arrived at the school in 1878 and the American Indian education program continued until 1923.
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Photo lot 73-9, Photographs of students at Hampton Institute, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Photographs, manuscripts and artwork relating to the Hampton Institute and its students can be found in other collections within the National Anthropological Archives, including MS 4751, Photo Lot 4605, MS 7500, and the BAE historical negatives.
Hampton University (formerly Institute) in Hampton, Virginia, holds institutional records and photographs in the campus library.
NAA INV.02779000
OPPS NEG.79-11507
Handwritten on recto: "Arrived at Hampton, Va. Oct 1879."
Names of students typwritten on verso: Tis-Cahf-Uh; Say- Ed-Da; U-Hah-Ke-Um-Pa; E-Corrupt-Ta-Ha; Ka-Ru-Nach;Koo- Nook-Te-Wan; Mok-Pi-A-Ma-Ni;Ari-Hotch-Kish; Pa-Ma-Ni; A-Hu-Ka.
NAA INV.02779100
OPPS NEG.79-11508
Handwritten on recto: "18 months after arrival at Hampton, Va."
Names and notes on students typwritten on verso: White Breast; U-Hah-Ke-Um-Pa; E-Corrupt-Ta-Ha; Ka-Ru-Nach; Laughing Face; Tis- Cahe-Uh; Pa-Ma-Ni; A-Hu-Ka; Ari-Hotch-Kish