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[Furniture building shop, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania] – Historic Photograph Print

[Furniture building shop, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania], [1901] — historic photograph
[Furniture building shop, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania], [1901]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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[Furniture building shop, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania]

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Students at the Carlisle Indian School learned trades such as cabinetmaking in shops like this one, which the 1901 cyanotype records as a furniture building room. Founded in 1879 by Richard Henry Pratt, the boarding school required Native American students to set aside their languages and customs, and its vocational program was meant to prepare them for work in a changing economy. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer, documented the school, and the cyanotype process she used gives the print its distinctive blue tone. Viewers today often look at such images for the tools, the workbenches, and the young men at work.

Created / published[1901]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1900-1910.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsUnited States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)--People--1900-1910. Indians of North America--Education--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--1900-1910. Students--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--1900-1910. Workshops--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--1900-1910. Cabinetmaking--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--1900-1910. Vocational education--Pennsylvania--Carlisle--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,215 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115388

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