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[Arithmetic class, 6th Division] – Antique Wall Art

[Arithmetic class, 6th Division], [1899?] — historic photograph
[Arithmetic class, 6th Division], [1899?]. 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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Labeled as an arithmetic lesson in the Sixth Division, this cyanotype documents a classroom in the Washington, D.C., public schools around the close of the nineteenth century. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a leading photographer of her day, made the series of school views in which it appears, and the album groups her pictures by school division. The cyanotype process, which renders images in pale tones against a deep blue ground, was inexpensive and durable, and it gives the scene a cool, distinctive look. The record dates the picture to about 1899 with a question mark, so the exact year remains uncertain.

Created / published[1899?]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes 1890-1900.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). In album: Public Schools - 6th Division.""
SubjectsEducation--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-111276

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