Identifier: 25822752.4742.emory.edu
Title: Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, The thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race (electronic resource): embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each : in fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women : illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Haley, James T Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Mind and matter Settle, William B., former owner. GEU Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950, former owner. GEU Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, former owner. GEU
Subjects: African Americans African Americans African Americans
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Haley & Florida
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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rpenter work, plain sewing,dress making, cooking- and nursing are taught. The average attend-ance during the past five years has exceeded five hundred. Equipment. The University campus contains thirty-five acres, most favorablylocated for beauty and health, one mile and a quarter in a straightline northwest of the State House. The property of the Universityis valued at £350,000. The accompanying pictures of the four prin-cipal buildings will convey a more vivid impression of their size andarchitectural beauty than any description can do. Jubilee Hall. This is the Home for young women and for the female teachers.It is surrounded by eight acres of land, beautifully ornamentd bytrees and shrubbery. This building was erected with funds earnedby the famous Jubilee Singers, who left the University October 6,1871, under the leadership of Mr. George L. White, Treasurer.They spent seven years of continuous labor in the United States,Great Britain and Ireland, Holland, Germany and Switzerland.
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324 afro-american encyclopaedia. Livingstone Missionary Hall. This building was erected, principally, through the gift of $60,000by Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Maiden, Mass. It is the Home1 foryoung men, but the first two stories are now used for chapel, libraryand recitation rooms. When the great recitation hall is erected onthe central square midway between Jubilee Hall and LivingstoneHall, the entire work of instruction will be transferred from Livings-tone Hall. Fisk Memorial Chapel. This chapel was secured through the legacy of $25,000 in railroadbonds left the University by Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, which netted withinterest nearly $30,000. This Memorial Chapel gives a perfect audi-ence room for one thousand persons in the regular seats. Theological Hall. The cost of this handsome building was about $25,000. The moneywas furnished partly by the band of Jubilee Singers, which pleadedfor it during the fall and winter of 1890-91, and partly by the Amer-ican Missionary Association. The Gy

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