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Frances Benjamin Johnston photo of the Library of Congress

Updated Mar 25, 2024
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Frances Benjamin Johnston photo of the Library of Congress
A Frances Benjamin Johnston photo of school children taking a field trip to the Library of Congress, taken around 1899. Names of children unknown.

Photograph shows students writing in notebooks as a teacher looks on.

The photo is blue because it is a cyanotype - an expensive process that produced a blue photo.
Date & Place: at Library of Congress in Washington DC, District Of Columbia USA
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Everyone's back in school - but kids don't dress like this on field trips today (hats and notebooks?). Wonder if how they dressed made a difference in how they acted?
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I always wished I lived at that turn of the century. What a beautiful time in so many ways.
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