Striking Early Segregated School Class Photograph beautiful pie crimp which I might hang near

which I might hang near the bed--or coffee maker--to be greeted by first thing in the morning

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 the variegated color of the now well rusted iron

to single overhead light

and looks to me rather smitten with Miss Elsie

Striking Early Segregated School Class Photograph beautiful pie crimp which I might hang nearA 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