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[Sewing class, 3rd Division] – Vintage Wall Art

[Sewing class, 3rd Division], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Sewing class, 3rd Division], [1899?]. 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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Sewing lessons were a standard part of the schoolgirl's day in late nineteenth-century Washington, and this print records one such class from the room labeled "3rd Division" on its caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer, documented the city's schools in albums around 1899, and her pictures show classrooms much as they were arranged then. The cyanotype process, which yields a distinctive blue-and-white image, was inexpensive and widely used for documentary work of this kind. The scene shows how practical skills like needlework were taught alongside reading and arithmetic.

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 × 1,181 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-113270

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