Baseball Negro Leagues, Morris Brown College

	TITLE: [African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man, standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia], CALL NUMBER: LOT 11930, no. 337 [P&P], Summary: There are no known restrictions on the African American photographs gathered for the Paris Exposition of 1900 (THIS IMAGE)

Alternate Version: Digital ID: cph 3c14266 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-114266 (b&w film copy neg.)

Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve higher resolution JPEG version (136 kilobytes) Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (12 megabytes).

Original albums; Restricted access; Served by appointment only. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-114266 (b&w film copy neg.), MEDIUM: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. CREATED. PUBLISHED: [1899 or 1900]

NOTES: In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 337. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930.

PART OF: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Du Bois albums of photographs of African Americans in Georgia exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c14266 hdl.loc.gov/cph.3c14266 CARD #: 95507100

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-114266]

On October 15, 1885, just 22 years after Abraham Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation, 107 students and nine teachers walked into a crude wooden structure at the comer of Boulevard and Houston Streets in Atlanta, Georgia, marking the formal opening of the first educational institution in Georgia under sole African American patronage. That institution was Morris Brown College, named to honor the memory of the second consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Morris Brown College

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