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[Mrs. Dube's sewing class] – Historic Print

[Mrs. Dube's sewing class] — historic print
[Mrs. Dube's sewing class]. Historic print 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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Mrs. Dube's sewing class survives as a halftone reproduction of a photograph whose original source has not been identified, and no date is recorded. The title points to a teacher and her students at needlework, a skill that schools and community programs taught widely in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as part of domestic or industrial education. Schools serving Black students often offered such training alongside academic lessons, so the scene reflects the educational choices and limits of its era. Because the date and origin are unrecorded, details of the setting should be read as open questions rather than settled facts.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsHalftone repro. of photo - source unknown. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sewing...; PI; Negroes--Education; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 868 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126650

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