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Boston Normal and Girls' Latin School, Boston, Mass. – Historic Reproduction

Boston Normal and Girls' Latin School, Boston, Mass., [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
Boston Normal and Girls' Latin School, Boston, Mass., [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Boston 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: Boston Normal and Girls' Latin School, Boston, Mass., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Boston Normal and Girls' Latin School, Boston, Mass.

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Few schools in the country were as closely tied to the training of women teachers as the Boston Normal School, which shares this building with Girls' Latin School in this view of the city. The Normal School dated to the mid-nineteenth century and prepared young women for classroom work, while Girls' Latin offered a rigorous college-preparatory course. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made large numbers of American city views in the early twentieth century, recorded the building on an 8 x 10 inch glass negative between 1900 and 1920, a format that gave the sharp detail that makes the facade's architecture easy to study.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes30" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071031. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsTeachers' colleges. Schools.United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72436

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