"A Parsee School. Bombay."

"A Parsee School. Bombay."

India--Parsee School--Spence Family--Asia--Fisk Jubilee Singers

A commercially-produced image depicting a group of sixteen Parsi women and girls at a school in India. Fifteen of the women and girls sit on couches in a semi-circles surrounding a desk in the center of the image. Several leather-bound books cover the surface of the desk. In front of the desk sits a woman facing left and pointing to a globe atop an ornate pedestal. This woman may be the teacher of the classes. In the upper center of the back wall hangs a large map of India and Burma. The reverse of this image has writing in ink, reading "A Parsee School. Bombay." This image was one of many commercially-produced images of various places and peoples in Asia likely gifted to the Spence family by the Fisk Jubilee Singers upon their return to the United States in 1890.

Unknown

John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, Special Collections, Fisk University. Spence Family Collection. Box 94, Folder 94-47-1.

Ca. 1889

Dr. Patrick D. Rasico, metadata input

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("A Parsee School. Bombay."). John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, Special Collections, Fisk University. Spence Family Collection. Box 94, Folder 94-47-1