Blacksmithing, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama

Artist Frances Benjamin Johnston (American, 1864 - 1952)

Date1902

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 3/16 × 8 15/16 inches (15.72 × 22.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2017.61.18

Signednone

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: “7549”

On View

Not on view

Collections

Photography

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DescriptionImage of men working with blacksmithing tools inside room with concrete floors, brick walls, and three windows along facing wall. One man tends to a horse.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.

Gallery Label

In the period around 1900, Frances Benjamin Johnston made a series of photographs documenting educational programs for minority youth. In 1881, Booker T. Washington founded The Tuskegee Institute to train African American teachers. The school continued to thrive over the years and achieved University status in 1985.

Johnston was one of the nation’s most renowned and prolific photographers from the 1890s through the 1930s. Skilled as a portrait, news, architectural, and social documentary photographer, Johnston enjoyed an international reputation as a pioneering professional photographer and businesswoman.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.

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