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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
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Large-format glass negatives of his Sea
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Laurence Dunbar, With Photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner of the Hampton Institute Camera Club, and Decorations by Margaret Armstrong (1904).
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During his lifetime, Miner’s images made at
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in several trips from 1906 to 1924. The photographs include educational methods, midwives, students, and alumni of the
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Miner was also an author and poet in his own right, having published his own writing in
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in 1898 and became Director of Applied Art in 1912 until his retirement in 1933. He photographed
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