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A Pathway to Opportunity : High Point Normal and Industrial Institute

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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.002.018
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting students of High Point Normal and Industrial Institute. Eleven young women and ten young men, all African-American, stand outside a wooden building. A man at front center appears to be a teacher. The women we... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.002.010
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting a faculty member and students of High Point Normal and Industrial Institute. The students stand on the steps of a brick building and the teacher stands at far right. The nine male students wear suits; the youn... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.002.005
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting faculty members of High Point Normal and Industrial Institute, ca. 1910s. Principal Alfred J. Griffin is seated on a chair in front and the others stand on the steps of a brick building. Ophelia Thompson Griff... View Full Record
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• Postcard
• 1999.002.019
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• Photographic postcard, black and white, depicting faculty members of High Point Normal and Industrial Institute, ca. 1920s. E. E. Curtright (second from left) and principal Alfred J. Griffin sit in the front row and are flanked by their wives, Lola... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.018.008
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting students in a carpentry class at High Point Normal and Industrial Institute. Several young African-American boys work with hand saws on wooden workbenches. At left, an older man wearing a suit watches their pr... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.018.009
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting a large group of students and faculty of High Point Normal and Industrial Institute outside the first school building, a large, three-story, brick building with tower, gabled roof, and dormers. Principal Alfred... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.018.005
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting carpentry students from High Point Normal and Industrial Institute at work building a two-story, wooden house. The exterior of the house is largely finished, although scaffolding remains. Most of the students... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.002.007
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting female students in a dressmaking class at High Point Normal and Industrial Institute, ca. 1905. None of the individuals are identified. Several students stand at desks and sit at sewing machines. At right, a... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.018.002
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting a dressmaking class at High Point Normal and Industrial Institute, ca. 1910s. Several young African-American women work at sewing machines and a long table. In foreground, a student measures the skirt length o... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.002.008
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting the High Point Normal and Industrial Institute freshman class of 1906. E. E. Curtright stands, holding a book, at far right. The students, four male and twelve female, stand on the steps of a brick building.... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.002.002
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting the High Point Normal and Industrial Institute junior class of 1905. Principal Alfred J. Griffin stands at far left with his young son, Carroll Sylvus Griffin. The three young men and six young women stand on... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.002.004
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting the High Point Normal and Industrial Institute class of 1909. Principal Alfred J. Griffin is at far right and E. E. Curtright at far left. The students, four young women and one young man, stand on the steps o... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 2005.114.001
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• Photograph, sepia, mounted on board, depicting E.E. Curtright, Alfred J. Griffin, and ten young men and women, probably students, seated on the stone steps of a brick building, probably on the campus of High Point Normal and Industrial Institute/Will... View Full Record
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• Program
• 1999.002.052
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• Program, Fourth Annual Cooking Demonstration and Fashion Revue, High Point Normal and Industrial Institute, April 11, 1927. Demonstrations provided by female students of the high school and the vocational classes. The cooking demonstration was foll... View Full Record
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• Program
• 1999.002.051 A-B
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• Program, student production of "The Black Pearl", High Point Normal and Industrial Institute, June 7, ca. 1928. 2 copies.... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.002.011 A
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting E. E. Curtright with a group of High Point Normal and Industrial Institute students, ca. 1920s. All are seated on the steps of a brick building. The twelve female students wear dresses or blouses and calf-leng... View Full Record
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• Print, Photographic
• 1999.002.015
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• Photograph, black and white, depicting E. E. Curtright with a group of High Point Normal and Industrial Institute students outside a brick building. Curtright stands at far right. Three young women sit on a wooden bench. Two men sit on the ground... View Full Record

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