The Hampton Album: 44 photographs by Frances B. Johnston from an album of Hampton Institute with an introduction and a note on the photographer by Lincoln Kirstein

Book Description

New York: MOMA, 1966. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Light shelf/edge wear, light even toning at edges of wraps, very minor soiling at rear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Pictorial wraps, black endpages, frontispiece. Oblong 8vo. 55pp. Illus. (b/w plates). These photographs, originally made for the Paris Exposition of 1900 by Frances Benjamin Johnston as part of an exhibition demonstrating contemporary life of the American Negro, comprise a body of work almost inexhaustibly revealing." (from Foreword)

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