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Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - class in bacteriology laboratory – Vintage Print

Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - class in bacteriology laboratory, [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - class in bacteriology laboratory, [ca. 1900]. 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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Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., ca. 1900 - class in bacteriology laboratory comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Students at Howard University, the historically Black institution founded in Washington, D.C., in 1867, are shown at work in a bacteriology laboratory in this view. Laboratory science of this kind was still fairly new around 1900, following the work of Pasteur and Koch in the 1880s, so a class in it at a Black university was a notable example of current scientific training. The caption card notes that the photograph was reportedly shown in the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900, a display intended to show Black education and achievement to an international audience.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,178 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119046

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