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Creation Date
5-1-2021
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The Archives and Special Collections recently acquired several candid photographs, featuring students at the Almeda Gardner Industrial School for Girls, in Moorhead, MS. Named for the wide of Chester H. Pond, the founder of the town and inventor of the electric self-winding clock, the American Missionary Association sponsored the African-American school. At one time, the institution boasted over 100 students, from primary through higher grades, who either boarded at the school or lived in town.
On display are enlarged reproductions of the original photographs taken during the devastating 1927 Mississippi River flood, when students literally boated across campus. The school closed a few years after the flood.
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