Caesar Mt. School, - one of the remote rural schools in Pocahontas Co. An average school except that it needs more playground space cleared and toilets need improving. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine. – Historic Photo Reproduction
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Step back in time with Caesar Mt. School, - one of the remote rural schools in Pocahontas Co. An average school except that it needs more playground space cleared and toilets need improving. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Caesar Mt. School, - one of the remote rural schools in Pocahontas Co. An average school except that it needs more playground space cleared and toilets need improving. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.
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Caesar Mountain School sat in the remote hills of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and its caption card describes it as an average rural school whose main needs were more cleared playground space and better toilets. Lewis W. Hine photographed it in October 1921 while documenting rural children for the National Child Labor Committee, which used such images to argue for schooling and against child labor. The picture offers a plain view of an Appalachian school of the period, with its modest grounds and the gap between rural schools and the facilities reformers hoped to see.
| Created / published | 1921 October. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints. |
| Notes | Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5043-A. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 23A. |
| Subjects | Rural schools. School children.United States--West Virginia--Pocahontas County. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,053 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116581 |
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