Dec 1866 Zion School for Colored Children, Charleston, S.C.
date: label: date published
content: 1866-12-15
name: label: original artist
content: Waud, A. R.
label: publisher
content: Harper & Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: This print was made from a woodblock engraving and appeared in the Harper’s Weekly issue dated December 15, 1866. The image depicts a large class at the Zion School in Charleston, South Carolina. An African American teacher is standing and addressing dozens of well-dressed African American children who are seated in long rows.
label: Description
content: The Zion School was a Freemen School under the direction of the American Missionary Association. Francis Cardozo was its first Director. During Reconstruction, Northern freedmen's aid organizations began establishing schools in the former states of the Confederacy. These benevolent organizations raised funds, recruited teachers, and attempted to keep the future of the freed people before the Northern public. The accompanying caption states that: “It is a peculiarity of this school that it is entirely under the superintendence of colored teachers.”
label: Description
content: The original artist was Alfred Rudolf Waud (1828-1891), a British-born American illustrator. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts before immigrating to the United States in 1850. According to Britannica, Waud’s “lively and detailed sketches of scenes from the Civil War, which he covered as a press correspondent, captured the war’s dramatic intensity and furnished him with a reputation as one of the preeminent artist-journalists of his era.”
label: Description
content: Harper’s Weekly was an American political magazine based in New York City and was published by Harper & Brothers from 1857-1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor, as well as illustrations.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3049.105
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3049
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3049.105
objectType: label: Object Name
content: periodical print
label: Object Name
content: newspaper clipping
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/2 in x 16 1/4 in; 29.21 cm x 41.275 cm
label: Measurements
content: print: 11 in x 16 in; 27.94 cm x 40.64 cm
label: Measurements
content: image: 9 in x 14 in; 22.86 cm x 35.56 cm