Untitled: Museum Object and Cultural History
Untitled: Date: ca. 1935. Created by: Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940. Subject of: Bordentown School, American, 1886 - 1955.
The object in the museum catalogue
A gelatin silver print of band class at the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth in Bordentown, New Jersey. The director, right, has his hands raised in direction.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1935
- Created by: Lewis Wickes Hine, American, 1874 - 1940
- Subject of: Bordentown School, American, 1886 - 1955
- Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
- Place depicted: Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Band (Music)
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2011.165.5
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard and Ellen Greenberg
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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