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Washington, D.C. - Martha Washington Seminary – Historic Reproduction

Washington, D.C. - Martha Washington Seminary, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Washington, D.C. - Martha Washington Seminary, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures Washington, D.C. - Martha Washington Seminary in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Washington, D.C. - Martha Washington Seminary

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The subject here is the Martha Washington Seminary in Washington, D.C., a private school for young women in the capital, and the picture records a campus where students were being educated at a time when women's schooling was expanding in American cities. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year is unknown, but the record's tags on schools, students, and women's education point to its focus on the institution and the girls who attended it. Photographs like this one, drawn from the Wittemann Collection, offer a useful window onto how private academies presented themselves to families and the public.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsWittemann Collection. No. 569. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Schools; Students; Women--Education.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148789

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