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[Children studying a horse and buggy outside the Tyler School, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Print

[Children studying a horse and buggy outside the Tyler School, Washington, D.C.], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Children studying a horse and buggy outside the Tyler School, Washington, D.C.], [1899?]. Historic photograph from the Horses 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 [Children studying a horse and buggy outside the Tyler School, Washington, D.C.], 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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[Children studying a horse and buggy outside the Tyler School, Washington, D.C.]

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Children gather outside the Tyler School in Washington, D.C., in a scene centered on a horse and buggy, an ordinary sight of the period that becomes a subject for study here. The photographer, Frances Benjamin Johnston, spent much of the late 1890s documenting the city's public schools, work that later contributed to a display of American education at the Paris Exposition of 1900. The print is a cyanotype, an inexpensive contact process that produces the pale blue tones typical of its era, and its date of about 1899 is marked as uncertain in the record. Notice how the horse, then the main means of getting around a city, draws the children's attention as much as the schoolhouse does.

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: 8th Division.""
SubjectsEducation--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,199 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114977

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