2-832-927 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

A gelatin silver print of a man with white hair and a tie smiling, probably a member of staff at the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth in Bordentown, New Jersey. The Bordentown boarding school for African-American students was founded in 1886. It was known as the "Tuskegee of the North" for its adoption of many of the educational practices first developed at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.