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[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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A window into the past: [Washington, D.C. Public Schools - classroom scenes and school activities], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Made about 1899 and kept in an album devoted to Eastern High School, this cyanotype is one of a group of Washington classroom scenes by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Cyanotypes were an inexpensive contact-print process that produced the blue-and-white tones seen here, and the method suited the documentary work of recording everyday school life. Johnston was a prominent photographer of her era, and her school pictures reflect the period's interest in public education and in how city schools were run. The record gives only a broad title and an approximate date, so the scene is best read as a view of school routine in Washington during the 1890s.

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: Eastern High School.""
SubjectsEducation--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,155 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116751

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