Leigh Richmond Miner

Miner illustrated the last three books in the series individually while running a photography studio in Yonkers, New York, during an leave from the school in 1904-07.

After studying drawing at the Academy of Design in New York (1886–91), and Applied Arts at the Pennsylvania Museum School in Philadelphia (1891), he traveled to Yakutat, Alaska, during the Gold Rush, where he closely observed and collected Inuit and indigenous Northwest coast crafts.

[8][9] He photographed Gullah people on St. Helena Island off the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina in several trips from 1906 to 1924.

The photographs include educational methods, midwives, students, and alumni of the Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School, a satellite of Hampton, as well as illustrating activities at the Penn health clinic and trades, living conditions, and craft traditions of area residents.

Miner was an accomplished craftsman his entire life: a potter, print maker, metal worker, furniture maker, collector of African American and native American craft objects, painter, photographer, cinematographer, interior designer, and landscape designer.

Self portrait of Leigh Richmond Miner drawing, circa 1900. Vintage platinum print from the Leigh RIchmond Miner Archive.
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Leigh Richmond Miner Teaching Drawing at Hampton, 1900.
Books of Paul Laurence Dunbar 's work were illustrated with photographs by Miner and decorative art by Margaret Armstrong
Photograph by Leigh Richmond Miner on the cover of The Crisis , November 1914
Young woman washing an older woman's foot, St. Helena Island, SC. Vintage platinum print from the Leigh Richmond Miner Archive.