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[Washington, D.C. school children on field trip - at the Smithsonian] – Antique Print

[Washington, D.C. school children on field trip - at the Smithsonian], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Washington, D.C. school children on field trip - at the Smithsonian], [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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[Washington, D.C. school children on field trip - at the Smithsonian] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A cyanotype of schoolchildren on a field trip to the Smithsonian, this print stands out for its blue-toned process, which was inexpensive and popular with amateurs in the 1890s. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer who documented the city's institutions and daily life, made the picture, and it sits in an album of school subjects alongside images from a fifth-grade class and a kindergarten. The caption card dates it to about 1899, which places it in a period when public schools increasingly used museums as places for hands-on learning. The image records how the capital's young students were introduced to national collections at the time.

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: 5th Division and Kindergarten.""
SubjectsEducation--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117412

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