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[Elementary school children standing and watching teacher write at blackboard, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Elementary school children standing and watching teacher write at blackboard, Washington, D.C.], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Elementary school children standing and watching teacher write at blackboard, 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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A window into the past: [Elementary school children standing and watching teacher write at blackboard, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Elementary school children standing and watching teacher write at blackboard, Washington, D.C.]

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Few details survive about the particular classroom, so this view of children gathered around a teacher at the blackboard stands in for a common scene of the late 1890s. The photograph is one of a group of Washington, D.C. views kept in an album and marked "1st Division," a label that suggests it was sorted among images of the city's schools and public life. Blackboards had become standard equipment in American classrooms by this period, and lessons were often delivered by writing at the board while pupils copied or recited. The picture is worth a close look for its record of how a city classroom was arranged in the years before 1900.

Created / published[1899?]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
NotesIn album: 1st Division.""
SubjectsTeachers--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. School children--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. Blackboards--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,091 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161979

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