Dear Anna, Try the UVa. Library's Special Collections Department or Hampton Institute. UVa's Special Collections just produced a great photographic book entitled, "Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education," that depicts images on your subject. At 08:20 AM 6/22/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Dear listers, I curated a touring exhibition about Christiansburg >Institute, a former African American school; now I find myself curating an >on-line exhibiton of its history. We need an image of an African American >child/adult/group learning to read or reading which will be used to >illustrate the fact that, under slavery, it was illegal to teach blacks to >read. We will then contrast that prohibition with the establishment of the >school immediately after the civil war. > >I thought there was such an image by O. Tanner in the Smithsonian's Sharing >Traditions, but when I looked again, it was a music lesson. Can anyone >suggest an image like this? Of course, we will still have to go through >the traditional reproduction/permission routes. >thanks >Anna Fariello > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Anna Fariello, Curatorial InSight, Box 505, Christiansburg VA 24068 >www.curatorialinsight.com; 540-382-3946; [log in to unmask] >Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061-0227 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >========================================================= >Important Subscriber Information: > >The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). > >If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). > > Darlene Richardson Historian & Archivist Virginia Museum of Transportation 303 Norfolk Avenue, SW Roanoke, VA 24016 Direct Phone #: (540) 767-4642 Fax: (540) 342-6898 mail to: [log in to unmask] ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).