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[Washington, D.C. Public Schools - classroom scenes and school activities] – Vintage 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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Step back in time with [Washington, D.C. Public Schools - classroom scenes and school activities], 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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Rather than showing a single building or teacher, this cyanotype records classroom life and school activities in Washington, D.C., around 1899. Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the most prominent women photographers of her day, made the series of Washington school images in the late 1890s as part of a broader effort to document American education. The cyanotype process, which produces its distinctive blue-and-white tones, was inexpensive and reliable, so it suited a large set of working prints. The image is worth a closer look for its glimpse of how public schooling in the capital was organized at the turn of the century.

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 × 1,198 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116750

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