Prang's aids for object teaching--Tailor – Vintage Wall Art
(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 antique lithograph of Prang's aids for object teaching--Tailor. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Prang's aids for object teaching--Tailor
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Plate 3 of Prang's Aids for Object Teaching turns a tailor's trade into a classroom lesson, showing tailoring as a skill children could study and name. L. Prang & Co., the Boston firm run by the German-born printer Louis Prang, produced these large color lithographs in the 1870s for use in schools, where the object-teaching movement encouraged students to learn from pictures and real things rather than from memorized text. The series also documented everyday work at a time when many Americans still made or mended their own clothes, and when tailoring was shifting toward shops and workshops. The print was later included in a 2005-2006 exhibition on the garment industry and American Jewry.
| Created / published | Boston : L. Prang & Co., c1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Copyright by L. Prang & Co. Trades & occupations - Plate 3. Exhibited: A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry 1860-1960, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY, 2005-2006. |
| Subjects | Tailor shops--1870-1880. Tailoring--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,426 × 1,141 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218842 |
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