Descriptive Summary
Manuel, Herschel Thurman, b. 1887
Herschel Manuel Photographs
1928-1930
English
BENSON-MS MANUEL, HERSCHEL
23168059
24 photographs
Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin
24 b/w photographs of Mexican American school children and segregated schools in the late 1920s.
Biographical Sketch
Professor and researcher Herschel Thurman Manuel was born Dec. 24, 1887 in Jackson County, Indiana. Manuel received his B.A. from DePauw Univ. in 1909, M.A. from Univ. of Chicago in 1914, and Ph.D. from Univ. of Illinois in 1917. He taught educational psychology at the Univ. of Texas beginning in 1925. In 1928, he received a grant to study the education of Mexican and Spanish-speaking children in Texas, which sparked a life-long interest in bilingual education. He developed standardized tests, including Inter-American Tests, which were parallel achievement tests in English and Spanish. Manuel died in 1976.
Scope and Contents Note
Consists of twenty-four black-and-white photographs of Mexican American school children, their segregated schools, and contrasting images of schools for other children. Photographs have minimal identification, but seem to be images of Texas schools and children in the late 1920's. The photographs were found among papers at the Office of Bilingual Education, University of Texas at Austin.
Access RestrictionsUnrestricted.
Use RestrictionsStandard copyright restrictions apply.
Related MaterialThe Manuel (Herschel T.) Papers, 1944, may be found at the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Manuel's book
The Education of Mexican and Spanish-speaking children in Texas (Austin: The Fund for Research in the Social Sciences, University of Texas, 1930) can be found in the Benson Collection at call number LA 370 M27. Other publications are also available.
Preferred CitationCite as: Herschel Manuel Photographs, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin.
Index TermsThe Herschel Manuel Photographs are classified under the following Subject Headings in the University of Texas Libraries catalog:
Discrimination in education--Texas--Pictorial works
Mexican American children--Education--Texas
Public schools--Texas
Box and Folder Inventory
List of Photographs
111. Interior of Mexican school [shown in 2.]. Note windows without shades.
12. Mexican school in small city.
13. Interior of school [shown in 4.].
14. Mexican school in small former church building. Other white children of district are transported to city schools.
15. Mexican school in another district.
126. School for Mexican children.
17. School for other white children
18. School for other white children.
19. School for Mexican children of same community.
110. School for Mexican children.
111. School for other white children.
1312. School for Mexican children - complete segregation.
113. Buildings for other white children.
114. School for other white children.
115. School for Mexican children. Interior was even worse.
116. School for Mexican children. Note playground.
117. School for other white children.
1418. School for other whites.
119. Mexican school less than two blocks away.
120. A city Mexican school.
121. School for other whites in same city.
122. Rural school for other whites.
123. Mexican school - Valentine Day.
124. [School interior - with cake]