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Photography Collection

Photographs of People at the Avery Normal Institute and Vicinity

Description

Fourteen photographs from the scrapbook of Ruth Esther Lee, a 1919 graduate of the Avery Normal Institute [125 Bull Street]. Thirteen photos feature young men and women, likely students, with various buildings (either the Avery Normal Institute or others in the vicinity) in the background:

a: Avery Normal Institute.

b: Young woman standing on the front steps of the Avery Normal Institute. View looking east showing the west elevation of neighboring building in background [123 Bull?].

c: Three young women standing on the front steps of the Avery Normal Institute. View looking east showing the west elevation of neighboring building in background [123 Bull?].

d: Two young women seated on the grass in front of the side (west elevation) of Avery Normal Institute.

e: Group of young men posed in front of the side (west elevation) of the Avery Normal Institute.

f: Group of young women posed in the rear of the Avery Normal Institute. View looking east showing 107 Ashley Avenue.

g: Miss Anna Dart seated on the front lawn of the Avery Normal Institute. View looking showing 111 Ashley Avenue.

h: Two young women standing in the rear of the Avery Normal Institute. View of 107 Ashley Avenue in the background.

i: Two young women standing by the Avery Normal Institute fence. 111 Ashley Avenue in the background.

j: Two young women standing by the Avery Normal Institute fence. 128 Ashley Avenue in the background.

k: Young woman seated by of the Avery Normal Institute fence. 128 and 130 Ashley Avenue in the background.

l: Young woman standing by the Avery Normal Institute fence. 128 Ashley Avenue and 111 Ashley Avenue in the background.

m: Woman holding a baby standing by a fence. Portions of two buildings on St. Philip Street in the background.

n: Young woman seated on the bumper of a car parked across the street from 67 Bogard Street.

Buildings in photos identified by Kevin Eberle.