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[Students in a drawing class, Western High School, Washington, D.C.] – Historic Print

[Students in a drawing class, Western High School, Washington, D.C.], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Students in a drawing class, Western High School, Washington, D.C.], [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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[Students in a drawing class, Western High School, Washington, D.C.]

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Students at a drawing class in Western High School in Washington, D.C., sit at their work in this cyanotype, a blue-toned print made with a process once favored for its low cost and sharp detail. The record dates it tentatively to around 1899, and it is one of the photographs in an album of Western High School compiled by Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer who documented the city's schools and their daily routines. Because cyanotypes were printed by contact with sunlight rather than developed chemically, they have a distinctive pale blue cast, and the image offers a glimpse of late nineteenth-century classroom instruction in the nation's capital.

Created / published[1899?]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1890-1900.
NotesNo. 2. In album: Western High School." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress)."
SubjectsStudents--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. Children--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900. Drawing--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,495 × 3,626 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222987

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