New Negro teachers for the Negro schools in Arlington visit the local newspaper, the Northern Virginia Sun, as part of a workshop before school opening, Arlington, VA (Primary Title)

Eve Arnold, American, 1912–2012 (Artist)

1958, printed ca. 1958
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/2 × 13 15/16 in. (24.13 × 35.4 cm)
2017.123
Not on view
Typed publication label affixed to verso: "58 -11B-4-26... New Negro teachers for the Negro schools in Arlington visit the local / newspaper, the Northern Virginia Sun, as part of a workshop before school opening. / The young Negro teacher with the flower is Mary Henderson, 22, and with her in bow tie is Negro principal George M. Richardson. Miss Henderson, a graduate of Virginia State College, is teaching for the first year.". Stamped in red ink on verso: "HISTORICAL", "BLACK AMERICA", and "URBAN OCCUPATIONS". Eve Arnold Magnum Photos credit stamp in black ink on verso: Photograph by / Eve Arnold / © 1963 MAGNUM PHOTOS / 15 West 47th Street/ N.Y.C. 36". Magnum Photo Library stamp in black ink, with a graphite inscription in an unidentified hand when noted with single quotations, on verso: " M [A, faded] G [N, faded] UM / PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT / NEW YORK. / LOG REF. ' 20020' / TO BE RETURNED.".
Inscribed in unidentified hands in graphite on verso: "PES 420", "58-1113-4-26", “EA2689", and “by Eve Arnold 1958". Inscribed in unidentified hands in black ink on verso: "41+ [encircled]" and "Black America" ["Black” then crossed through in blue ink]. Inscribed in unidentified hands in blue ink on verso: “50’s Blacks" ["Blacks” then crossed through in blue ink] and "Education" Inscribed in an unidentified hand in blue ink on a white label affixed on verso: "84538".
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment

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