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[Identification of item], in the Barber-Scotia College Photograph Album #70144, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased by the North Carolina Collection, in December 2022; accession no. 20221212.1.

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Processed by: Patrick Cullom and Saija Denay Wilson, 2023

Encoded by: Patrick Cullom, March 2023

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• African Americans universities and colleges.
• African Americans--Education (Higher)--North Carolina--Concord--Photographs.
• African Americans--Education (Higher)--North Carolina--Concord.
• African Americans--Education--North Carolina--Photographs.
• African Americans--Education--North Carolina.
• African Americans--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Barber-Scotia College--History--Photographs.
• Barber-Scotia College--History.
• College campuses--North Carolina--Concord--Photographs.
• Concord (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Historically Black colleges and universities.
• Women--Education (Higher)--North Carolina--Concord--Photographs.
• Women--Education (Higher)--North Carolina--Concord.

• Virginia Omega Collier Photograph Album (#70146)

Barber-Scotia College was the first female historically Black college or university opened after the U.S. Civil War when it was founded by the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. in 1867. Initially named Scotia Seminary, the school would later be named Scotia Women’s College in 1916, and later Barber-Scotia College following its merger with Barber Memorial College of Anniston, Alabama in 1930. The school was created chiefly to educate African American women in the fields of education and social work. Most of the photographs depict students at the school between 1930 and 1934, but numerous faculty and staff members of the college are also pictured, along with numerous images depicting buildings and grounds on the Barber-Scotia campus. The college continues to operate in Concord, N.C.

Collection of pages from a disassembled photograph album consisting chiefly of images depicting campus life at Barber-Scotia College, located in Concord, N.C., from the early 1930s. A majority of the photographs in the album depict students of the school between 1930 and 1934, but numerous faculty and staff members of the college are also depicted, along with numerous images including buildings and grounds on the Barber-Scotia campus. The faculty of the college was composed of both Black and white faculty and staff at the time, who are seen here both individually and in group portraits. One group portrait of the faculty from 1934 reveals that all but one of the instructors were women (the one exception being "Dean" Leland S. Cozart, president of the school from 1932-1964), and the great majority of the faculty were African American, a break with previous tradition at the college; this portrait is also captioned in manuscript with the name of every faculty member in the photo. The students are also depicted in a combination of informal snapshots that include, candid shots on campus, outside buildings, and in more formal organizational or class groups. One page depicts the "Teacher Training 'Class of 1930'" featuring a group shot of twenty young women. Dozens of students and instructors are identified by name in either manuscript captions or printed cut-outs from a student publication, most likely a yearbook. This album preserves student life for Black women in the 1930s. The creator of the album is unidentified, but made two later notes in the album, documenting when two people in the photographs later passed away in 1947 and 1956.