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[Washington, D.C. Public Schools - classroom scenes and school activities] – Antique Print

[Washington, D.C. Public Schools - classroom scenes and school activities], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Washington, D.C. Public Schools - classroom scenes and school activities], [1899?]. 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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Blue-toned cyanotypes like this one were a cheap, durable photographic process, and the caption card identifies this print as a scene from Washington, D.C. public schools, the subject of a series of classroom and school-life views. Frances Benjamin Johnston, the photographer whose collection holds the print, is believed to have made it around 1899, when she documented the city's schools, reportedly for display at the Paris Exposition of 1900. The picture offers a glimpse of the capital's classrooms at the turn of the century, when public education was expanding rapidly.

Created / published[1899?]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1890-1900.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). In album: 1st Division.""
SubjectsEducation--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,202 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116749

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