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[School children measuring and sketching at a stone building, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Photograph Print

[School children measuring and sketching at a stone building, Washington, D.C.], [1899?] — historic photograph
[School children measuring and sketching at a stone building, Washington, D.C.], [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 [School children measuring and sketching at a stone building, Washington, D.C.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[School children measuring and sketching at a stone building, Washington, D.C.]

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Schoolchildren work outdoors beside a stone building, measuring and sketching as they learn to observe and record the built environment. The image is a cyanotype, a cheap contact process that produces white lines on a deep blue ground, and it was one of the many album prints Frances Benjamin Johnston made of Washington's public schools in the late 1890s. Johnston was known for documenting everyday institutional life in the capital, and her school series shows how hands-on lessons in drawing and measurement were taught. The clothing the children wear is also a point of interest for anyone studying turn-of-the-century dress.

Created / published[1899?]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1890-1900.
NotesNo. 342. In album: Public Schools - 7th Division." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress)."
SubjectsSchool children--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. Measuring--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. Children--Clothing & dress--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,187 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114970

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