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[Children marching around the classroom, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Print

[Children marching around the classroom, Washington, D.C.], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Children marching around the classroom, 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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A window into the past: [Children marching around the classroom, Washington, D.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Children marching around the classroom, Washington, D.C.]

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A group of children moves in a loop around a schoolroom in this cyanotype, the blue-toned process that was common among amateur and professional photographers in the 1890s. Frances Benjamin Johnston, who made the picture and whose collection holds it, spent much of her career photographing Washington life and its institutions. Marching and circle games like this were a staple of the kindergarten and primary classrooms of the period, which reflected the influence of Friedrich Froebel's ideas about structured play. The record dates the image to about 1899, a time when public schooling in the capital was expanding.

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: 3rd Division.""
SubjectsEducation--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,189 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114979

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