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[Classroom scenes in Washington, D.C. public schools: general classroom scenes, 1st Division] – Vintage Print

[Classroom scenes in Washington, D.C. public schools: general classroom scenes, 1st Division], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Classroom scenes in Washington, D.C. public schools: general classroom scenes, 1st Division], [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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A window into the past: [Classroom scenes in Washington, D.C. public schools: general classroom scenes, 1st Division], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Labeled as a general classroom scene from the album's "1st Division," this cyanotype shows the interior of one of Washington's public schools around the turn of the century. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a leading documentary photographer of the era, made the series as part of a broader look at the city's schools, when public education in the capital was expanding and debates over school conditions were active. The cyanotype process, which produces its characteristic Prussian-blue tones from iron salts exposed to light, was inexpensive and durable, and it lets viewers study the rooms, furniture, and students' arrangement with unusual clarity.

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 × 1,179 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118774

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