Series : Print collections.
Image Number : PR00784
Date : 1905?
Subject Heading(s) :
Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls (Daytona
Beach,
Fla.)
Afro-American students.
Afro-American girls--Florida--Daytona Beach.
Afro-American women--Florida--Daytona Beach.
Sewing machines.
Sewing.
Classes (Groups of students)
Needlework.
Daytona Beach (Fla.)
Notes :
Established 1904 by Mary McLeod Bethune with 5 girls and $1.50 cash in
a rented cabin. By 1918 there was a four story building called Faith Hall,
a 2 story building used for kitchen and a new $40,000 auditorium on 20
acres. Classes offered in sewing, dressmaking, domestic science, gardening,
poultry raising, raffia work, rug weaving, chair caning, broom making
teacher and nurses training. An additional building some distance from
the campus was fitted up for the education of boys and men. |
