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Graded School, Glasgow, Ky. – Antique Print

Graded School, Glasgow, Ky., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Graded School, Glasgow, Ky., [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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: Graded School, Glasgow, Ky., 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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Graded School, Glasgow, Ky.

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Glasgow, the county seat of Barren County in south-central Kentucky, provides the setting, and the Graded School building is the subject of this view. Graded schools spread through American towns in the decades after the Civil War, when communities began sorting pupils into separate classrooms by age and ability instead of teaching them all in a single room. The photoprint was made by L.M. Rapp and belongs to the Wittemann Collection. Its caption card gives no date, so the year the picture was taken is unconfirmed.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by L.M. Rapp. Wittemann Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Schools; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,138 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-155942

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