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[Five girls lying on mat in gymnasium in front of basketball scoreboard, Western High School, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Five girls lying on mat in gymnasium in front of basketball scoreboard, Western High School, Washington, D.C.], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Five girls lying on mat in gymnasium in front of basketball scoreboard, Western High School, Washington, D.C.], [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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Five girls lie stretched out on a gymnasium mat in front of a basketball scoreboard in this cyanotype, made at Western High School in Washington, D.C. The print is one numbered view from an album of school scenes that photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston assembled, and it is dated around 1899. Basketball was only about a decade old at the time, invented in 1891 as an indoor winter game, and by the late 1890s it was spreading into girls' schools and gymnasiums across the country. The cyanotype process, which produces its distinctive blue-and-white tones, was a popular and inexpensive way to make photographic prints then.

Created / published[1899?]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1890-1900.
NotesNo. 37 In album: Western High School." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress)."
SubjectsGirls--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. Scoreboards--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. Gymnasiums--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-161360

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