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Sledding, Rochester, out of door school, coasting on the toboggan – Historic Print

Sledding, Rochester, out of door school, coasting on the toboggan, [between ca. 1908 and 1915] — historic photograph
Sledding, Rochester, out of door school, coasting on the toboggan, [between ca. 1908 and 1915]. 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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Sledding, Rochester, out of door school, coasting on the toboggan 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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Children from Rochester's out-of-door school are shown coasting down a snowy slope on a toboggan, a scene that would have been unusual in a classroom of the period. Open-air schools took shape in the early 1900s, when many American cities, Rochester among them, held classes outdoors or in unheated, airy rooms to protect children, especially those thought to be at risk of tuberculosis, from indoor illness. Winter was the hardest test of that idea, so pictures like this one, made for the Bain News Service, show the approach as much as the play. The photograph's caption and its place in the Bain collection suggest it was meant to publicize the schools' health benefits.

Created / published[between ca. 1908 and 1915]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1920.Group portraits 1900-1920.Photographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesTitle from item. Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsOpen-air schools--1900-1920. Children--1900-1920. Winter sports--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan755 × 927 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210841

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