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[Children in school in Washington, D.C. - studying geometry] – Historic Print

[Children in school in Washington, D.C. - studying geometry], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Children in school in Washington, D.C. - studying geometry], [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 classroom in Washington, D.C., where children work through geometry problems, sets this picture apart from the many school scenes in the Johnston collection. Frances Benjamin Johnston likely made it around 1899, when she was photographing the city's public schools. The cyanotype process she used produced the distinctive blue-and-white print, a method valued at the time for being inexpensive and stable. Pictures like this one presented American public education in a favorable light, and the album placement helps place this scene within that larger body of work.

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: 4th Division.""
SubjectsEducation--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,133 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160101

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