Higher Gallery

Group photo, Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, USA

Group photo of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. They were an African-American a cappella ensemble who toured and performed to raise money for their college which was in danger of closing due to lack of funds. The singers pictured here are: Maggie Porter, E.W. Watkins, H.D. Alexander, F.J. Loudin, Thomas Rutling, Jennie Jackson, Mabel Lewis, Ella Sheppard, Maggie Carnes and America W. Robinson. Date: 1870s

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Fourah Bay College, Mount Aureol, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Founded in 1827 by the Church Missionary Society as an Anglican missionary school, it is the oldest university in West Africa. Date: circa 1912

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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Union Workhouse, Birkenhead, Cheshire

View of the school/sanatorium entrance of the Birkenhead Union workhouse in Church Road, Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire. The workhouse, designed by Thomas Layland of Liverpool, opened in 1864. It later became Birkenhead Municipal Hospital, then St Catherine's Community Hospital

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection

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