Striking Early Segregated School Class Photograph beautiful pie crimp I love the directness of

I love the directness of the gaze of our woman in blue with little lamb wrapped in her arms--seeming a picture of gentleness and goodness

I had the work of Pearl Blauvelt on my mind when I spotted it--sold to me by a rare book seller who knew nothing about it--and the intensity and changing directionality of the pencil lines animating every inch of the horse

and looks to me rather smitten with Miss Elsie

to single overhead light

Striking Early Segregated School Class Photograph beautiful pie crimp I love the directness ofA second class photograph of students at all black school, found along with the class photo at the Bruce School in Houston l've also listed, that one dated 1919 and this one I presume from around the same time, perhaps just a bit earlier This is a real photo postcard, with the name William Henry Rivers (or similar; last name a bit hard to discern) written on reverse. Another striking image, with several girls in sailor style dresses and the boys in