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Open air class in manual training on the boat SOUTHFIELD at Bellevue Hospital, New York City – Antique Wall Art

Open air class in manual training on the boat SOUTHFIELD at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
Open air class in manual training on the boat SOUTHFIELD at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Open air class in manual training on the boat SOUTHFIELD at Bellevue Hospital, New York City. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Open air class in manual training on the boat SOUTHFIELD at Bellevue Hospital, New York City

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Moored on the East River, the boat SOUTHFIELD served as an open-air classroom for children at Bellevue Hospital, and this photograph shows a manual training lesson held outdoors in the fresh air. Such schools were built on the belief that sunlight and air could help children recovering from or at risk of tuberculosis, a disease that was widespread in crowded city neighborhoods in the early 1900s. The print was made by Jessie Tarbox Beals, a New York photographer known for documenting city life and working people. Its caption date falls somewhere between 1900 and 1920, so the image captures the period when open-air education was a new and closely watched experiment in New York.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by Jessie Tarbox Beals, N.Y.C. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Goldsberry Collection of open-air school photographs.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160108

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