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DETAILS:Original cabinet card photograph of anAfrican American female tennis teamfrom Scotia Seminary, a black female college in Concord, North Carolina. Circa 1900. Writingon bottom edge reads: "At Scotia Seminary, Concord, North Carolina. Time, Early 1900's. For other items from this estatecollection, visit our store. KEYWORD: Scotia Seminary
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: Scotia Seminary (1867-1915)wasan African American female seminary school founded inConcord, North Carolina, in 1867by the Presbyterian Church to prepare young black southern women (the daughters of former slaves) for careers as social workersand teachers.It was the first historically black female institution of higher education established after the American Civil War. Historians consider it to bethe first black institution built after the Civil War. For the first time, it gave black women an alternative to becoming domestic servants or field hands. Scotia Seminary offered its students grammar, science, and domestic arts. In 1908 it had 19 teachers and 291 students. From its founding in 1867 to 1908 it had enrolled 2,900 students, with 604 having graduated from the grammar department and 109 from the normal department.The school was modeled after Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) and was referred to as "The Mount Holyoke of the South".
GUARANTEE: We offer a lifetime guarantee on all of our photographs and historical paper items to be authentic originals and as stated. They are not later re-issues or reproductions. We forensically examine all of our itemsprior to listing to make certain they are authentic and guarantee their authenticity for the lifetime of the item.
Oxxbridge Galleries
Established 1987
Oxxbridge Galleries was founded in 1987 and specializes in vintage paper itemswith a large selection of historical and 19th Century tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, as well as other types of early photography.We invite everyone to visit our storeto see our entireinventory.
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