Tantum Hall - Tuskegee Institute, Ala.: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A hand-tinted photographic postcard of Tantum Hall at the Tuskegee Institute. The postcard depcits Tantum Hall, a large rectangular brick building with a portico on one side and a porch on the left side, sitting on a hill and framed by green lawns and trees. The portico has six tall white columns topped by a triangular pediment. The porch is also white and has stairs that leads down to the lawn. Along the bottom is a narrow white margin with the words [TANTUM HALL -TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALA. Hand-colored] printed in black ink. In the bottom left corner are the words [Copyright 19007 by / Arthur P. Bedou / N.O.] printed in white ink. The back of the photographic postcard is unused and has [POST CARD] printed in black at the top and blank spaces for [CORRESPONDENCE] and [ADDRESS ONLY]. In the upper right corner, there is a stamp box with dashes. The back also has printed information about the photographer Arthur P. Bedou.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1907; printed 1907-1914
• Photograph by: Arthur P. Bedou, American, 1882 - 1966
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881
• Type: photographic postcards
• Medium: colorant on silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper with ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 3 7/16 × 5 1/2 in. (8.8 × 13.9 cm)
• Place depicted: Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Architecture
• Topic: Education
• Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2014.37.13.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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