Photographs from the book "Face of an Island"
Leigh Richmond Miner (Photographer)
Depictions of the descendants of the Gullah people, living on St. Helena Island off Beaufort, South Carolina, from approximately 1900 to 1924, consisting of studio portraits of plantation workers, midwives, and current and former students of the Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School; a group portrait of young girls visiting the Penn health clinic; and views of Penn students working on campus, a shoe cobbling class, a meeting of home management instructors and health care providers, a group of men excavating a site for a community hall, and a nurse treating an elderly resident
Image, English, 199u