Tuesday

The writing on...the blackboard


Jacob Riis: ca. 1886, Lower East Side, Manhattan, US.
A View of a Lower East Side schoolroom. A teacher demonstrates
on the blackboard, as students watch attentively from crowded
pews. Note the open gas jets near the ceiling


Elementary school children standing and watching
teacher write at blackboard, Washington, D.C.
Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. 1899
LoC

2 comments:

karumina said...

Que coincidencia!!! Ayer estuve recordando a Ana de las tejas verdes...
Muy curioso todo lo que nos das a conocer!!
gracias
karumina

Aputsiaq said...

I must be a mindreader, then ;O) Anne of Green Gables is SO wonderful!