Photograph of Seven Uniformed Students at The Hampton Normal School. [Caption title]: "Success / Agr. 1916 / Crowns Labor"

Hampton, Virginia: Cheyne's Studio, 1916.

Price: $1,500.00

Unbound. Vintage gelatin silver print photograph. Measuring 7½" x 9½" on embossed mount measuring 11¾" x 13¾" with Cheyne's Studio blindstamp on lower mount. The embossed mount has moderate wear with slight loss at tips of corners, and the has a few small soil spots and light silver shadowing to image, else a nice, near fine photograph with very nice contrast and detail. A professional portrait of Hampton Normal students in 1916 ceremony depicting seven African-American and Native-American male students in Military uniforms. The Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute consisted of African-American and Native-American students.

The studio portrait shows the seven male students all dressed in the same military uniforms, some with ranks on their sleeves. Five of the students are standing in background in formal pose, hands at their sides, and two students, in the front row, are seated in chairs with hands clasped. Placed between the two seated students is a large potted plant on a stand and at the base of the stand leans a lettered sign stating: "Success / Agr." with a pictorial vignette of a white plow, growing plant, and white cloud and "1916 / Crowns Labor."

The photographer Christopher Ethelbert Cheyne was born in Canada. In 1894, he relocated to Hampton where he married Miss Emily Louise Couch, a Hampton school teacher.


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Item #499649 Photograph of Seven Uniformed Students at The Hampton Normal School. [Caption title]: "Success / Agr. 1916 / Crowns Labor"