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Leigh Richmond Miner (1864 - 1935) was a photographer in the United States.[1][2]

He was the director of the Applied Arts at Hampton Institute.[3][4] He photographed Gullah people on St. Helena Island off the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina from about 1900 to 1924 in studio portraits. The photographs include plantation workers, midwives, students and alumni of the Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School as well as activities at the Penn health clinic and industrial activities at the school.[5]

He was the official photographer at Hampton Institute and his work appeared in its publications.[6] His photographs were inckuded in several of Paul Laurence Dunbar's publication.[7] He was photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston.[8]

A collection of his large format photographs of Saint Helena Island, South Carolina was published in 1970.

Publications

  • Candle-Lightin' Time by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar with photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner and illustrations by Margaret Armstrong (1901)
  • Face of an Island: Leigh Richmond Miner's Photographs of Saint Helena Island edited by Edith M. Dabbs (1970)
  • "Home Decoration, Hampton Institute leaflet (1921)[4]
  • "Li'L Road to Rest", musical score (1921)[9]
  • Li'l Gal by Paul Laurence Dunbar, book of Negro songs with illustrations by Margaret Armstrong and photographs by Miner

References

  1. ^ "Miner, Leigh Richmond 1864-1935 [WorldCat Identities]".
  2. ^ "Leigh Richmond Miner (American, 1864 - 1935) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
  3. ^ Thaxton-Ward, Vanessa (2005). "An Extraordinary Visual Record". International Review of African American Art (20(1)): 58–61. ISSN 1045-0920. Accession Number:16910738.
  4. ^ a b "Home decoration". The Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. January 23, 1921 – via Open WorldCat.
  5. ^ Miner, Leigh Richmond (January 23, 2022). "Photographs from the book "Face of an Island"" – via Open WorldCat.
  6. ^ "Leigh Richmond Miner Photo Archive - Cape Elizabeth". Alignable.
  7. ^ "Leigh Richmond Miner (Miner, Leigh Richmond, 1864-1935) | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  8. ^ "A Cross-Collection Endeavor: Researching Photographs of Hampton Institute in Harvard's Social Museum Collection | Index Magazine | Harvard Art Museums". harvardartmuseums.org.
  9. ^ "Li'l road to rest". January 23, 1921 – via Open WorldCat.
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