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(MUSIC.) The University Singers of New Orleans. Pair of albumen cabinet card photographs; one showing the singers themselves, the other posed with what seem to be a few of the children of the Colored Orphans' Home. Both mounts and images lightly toned. Philadelphia: Sawyer, circa late 1870's
The "University Singers of New Orleans" were founded by the Methodist Freedmen's School in 1877, specifically to raise funds to rescue a faltering Colored Orphans' Home in Bayou Teche. We were able to find one copy of one of these cards at the Schomburg Center, and another card showing a different sitting of the same group at the Beinecke Library at Yale.
