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Western High School, Washington, D.C. – Vintage Wall Art

Western High School, Washington, D.C., [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
Western High School, Washington, D.C., [ca. 1900]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Western High School, Washington, D.C.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Western High School, Washington, D.C.

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Western High School stood in Washington, D.C., and this view comes from the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress, a body of work she assembled as one of the period's most active documentary photographers. Johnston was known for photographing architecture, schools and institutions with a careful eye for structure and daylight, and her pictures of the capital from around 1900 record a city in the middle of rapid growth. Western was one of the city's public high schools for white students, and images like this one preserve how such buildings presented themselves to the public at the turn of the century.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,267 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-112806

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