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A black-and-white print of vocational students learning how to cook and bake at the Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth in Bordentown, New Jersey. A prayer is partially visible on the dining room chalkboard to the right of the frame. 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.