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This is a photograph of an arithmetic classroom setting with students working at a blackboard. The image captures the interior of a classroom where rows of wooden desks are occupied, facing a large blackboard covered in arithmetic problems written in chalk. Several students are standing at the blackboard, seemingly solving these mathematical equations. On the walls above the blackboard, there is framed artwork or photographs. The photograph provides depth and dimension to the classroom scene, making the arrangement of desks and students more vivid. Details such as books and papers are…
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"An Arithmetic Class, Tuskegee, Alabama"

Keystone View Company (American, 1892 - 1963)

c. 1900

Medium
stereoscopic gelatin silver print
Classification
Photograph
Dimensions
image (each): 8 × 7.6 cm (3 1/8 × 3 in.) ; sheet: 8 × 15.3 cm (3 1/8 × 6 in.) ; mount: 8.6 × 17.8 cm (3 3/8 × 7 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CPH
Credit line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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