[Wash., D.C. public school classroom scene, ca. 1899: students studying the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. (1st Div. no. 159)] – Historic Reproduction
![[Wash., D.C. public school classroom scene, ca. 1899: students studying the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. (1st Div. no. 159)], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/21/21710a3a6b2f-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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Step back in time with [Wash., D.C. public school classroom scene, ca. 1899: students studying the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. (1st Div. no. 159)], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Wash., D.C. public school classroom scene, ca. 1899: students studying the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. (1st Div. no. 159)]
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Rather than a mother-and-child or a schoolyard, this picture shows a Washington, D.C., public school classroom where students are studying the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer known for her documentary views of schools and daily life, made the image around 1899, and the cyanotype process gives it the distinctive blue tone of early photographic prints. By the late 1800s, the Pilgrim story had become a standard part of American schoolroom lessons on national origins, so the scene shows how that narrative was taught to children in the capital.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : cyanotype. |
| Subjects | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Colonial life--Pilgrims; Geogr.; Schools. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,927 × 1,450 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142262 |
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