The photographer is, Leigh Richmond Miner (1864–1935) who was a photographer in the United States.
He was the principal photographer at Hampton Institute and his work appeared throughout the school’s extensive publications and publicity materials during the first three decades of the twentieth century.

He was photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston as a part of her celebrated series of early publicity images for the college, appearing in several images teaching art classes in school classrooms.

He photographed Gullah people on St. Helena Island off the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina in several trips from 1906 to 1924.
The photographs include educational methods, midwives, students, and alumni of the Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School, a satellite of Hampton, as well as illustrating activities at the Penn health clinic and trades, living conditions, and craft traditions of area residents.

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