These images here are works by Frances Benjamin Johnston that were exhibited in the 1900 Paris Exhibition, and these pictures were meant to explain what life was like for students at the Hampton Institute. The Hampton Institute was founded after the Civil War to provide vocational training and an education for newly freed slaves and Native Americans. And in these pictures, Johnston is justifying the work of the Hampton Institute as a way of helping them raise money to continue what they were doing. So she's trying to make something very clear in her pictures by the placement of the figures, by the carefully drawn words on the blackboard, by showing a range of their activities like working on a stairway, to traditional academic subjects. Johnston has a reputation for being the first photo journalist. She was actually very interested in the pictorialist tradition, in the fine artistic tradition of photographs and she worked very hard in the 1890s to get her work exhibited in artistic salons. What's amazing is that there are all these luxurious platinum prints, beautifully crafted, very silvery in tone. The composition is very deliberate in each one. So, it shows how she blended this work for hire with an artistic sensibility.