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Jacob C. White, Jr. clipping portrait with autograph

Portrait of Jacob C. White, Jr. [1837-1902].  From the Leon Gardiner collection of American Negro Historical Society records [0008].  A Black educator and close friend of Octavius V. Catto, White was the principal of the Robert Vaux school for 40 years.  He was a founder of the city&r...

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Collection:Leon Gardiner collection of American Negro Historical Society records (#0008)
Format: Electronic
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White, Jacob C., 1837-1902
Clipping
Copyright:Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org)
Online Access:https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/14106
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Summary: Portrait of Jacob C. White, Jr. [1837-1902].  From the Leon Gardiner collection of American Negro Historical Society records [0008].  A Black educator and close friend of Octavius V. Catto, White was the principal of the Robert Vaux school for 40 years.  He was a founder of the city’s first Black baseball club, the Pythians, and the first president of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital.

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