[Girls in dance class] – Historic Print
![[Girls in dance class], c1908. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/01/01b13a5d5dbc-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Girls in a dance class take up this 1908 stereograph, a pair of nearly identical photographs meant to be viewed through a stereoscope so the scene appears three-dimensional. Underwood & Underwood, one of the largest publishers of stereo cards in the early 1900s, sold such views for home parlors and school use, and its catalogs often grouped scenes under educational headings like school classrooms. Around 1908, dancing and rhythmic movement were increasingly included in school physical training, reflecting broader interest in exercise and posture. The card is a useful record of how formal schooling and everyday activity were presented to the public at the time.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: School classrooms--1908; Dance; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 956 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144819 |
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