Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 292

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THE FIRST GUIDE TO HAMPTON INSTITUTE (EDUCATION.) HAMPTON INSTITUTE. Visitor's Hand Book of Old Point Comfort, VA, and Vicinity. Copious illustrations and two folding plates. 12mo, original pictorial blue and magenta wrappers; tiny closed tear to the outer margin of the front cover. Hampton, VA: Press of the Hampton Institute, 1883
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first edition of the first guide to the hampton institute, published by the institute. After the Civil War, the Hampton Normal School ("Normal" meaning to establish standards or norms while educating teachers) was formalized in 1868, with former Union brevet Brigadier General Samuel Chapman Armstrong (1839-1893) as its first principal. The new school was established on the grounds of a former plantation named "Little Scotland," which had a view of Hampton Roads. The original school buildings fronted the Hampton River. Legally chartered in 1870 as a land grant school, it was first known as Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.