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[The Interior of a little red schoolhouse with teacher and students, Crossville, Tennessee] – Historic Print

[The Interior of a little red schoolhouse with teacher and students, Crossville, Tennessee], [between 1933 and 1936] — historic photograph
[The Interior of a little red schoolhouse with teacher and students, Crossville, Tennessee], [between 1933 and 1936]. 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: [The Interior of a little red schoolhouse with teacher and students, Crossville, Tennessee], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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A little red schoolhouse in Crossville, Tennessee, serves as the setting, with a teacher and her pupils gathered in a single room. Lewis Hine made the photograph sometime between 1933 and 1936, when New Deal programs sent photographers across the South to record rural life. One-room schools like this one taught several grades at once and were often the center of community life in farming areas, so the scene shows both a teaching arrangement and the modest resources that shaped rural education. The image is held in the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collection.

Created / published[between 1933 and 1936]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesBy Hine. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection.
SubjectsOne-room schools--Tennessee--Crossville--1930-1940. Classrooms--Tennessee--Crossville--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,002 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-168824

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