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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 visible on the desks.
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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 visible on the desks.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

"An Arithmetic Class, Tuskegee, Alabama"

Keystone View Company

Date
c. 1900
Medium
stereoscopic gelatin silver print
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.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2023.39.125
Credit line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CPH
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • portrait
  • American
  • gelatin silver print
  • School
  • African American
  • Students
  • Stereograph
Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Inscription

along left edge of mount printed in black ink: Keystone View Company / Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood / Manufacturers MADE IN U. S. A. Publishers; top center: H296; along right edge: Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, / Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus; bottom right: V26144-An Arithmetic Class, Tuskegee.; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: 22.12.JBX / AF070A

NGA object ID 227143. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.