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[Children in a classroom blowing pinwheels in a Washington, D.C., grade school] – Historic Reproduction

[Children in a classroom blowing pinwheels in a Washington, D.C., grade school], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Children in a classroom blowing pinwheels in a Washington, D.C., grade school], [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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Children in a classroom blowing pinwheels in a Washington, D.C., grade school]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Children in a Washington, D.C., classroom blow on paper pinwheels in this scene, an unusually lively moment for a school photograph of the period. The Library of Congress dates the image tentatively to 1899 and identifies it as a cyanotype, an inexpensive contact process that produces the distinctive blue-and-white prints. Late nineteenth-century teachers often used hands-on objects and simple toys to hold young students' attention, and the pinwheels suggest that approach. The picture offers a rare glimpse of everyday city schooling at the turn of the century.

Created / published[1899?]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
SubjectsD.C. -- 1899; Wash. (D.C.) -- Schools -- 1899; Shelf; Pinwheels; Schools; Geogr."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,165 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151064

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