Name/Title
Photo students posed outside school entrance, West End School, 1889Entry/Object ID
1997.457.1Description
Acc. No. 97.457.1
Subject Category: Schools - West End (now Longfellow)
Date or Period: 1889
Object: Photograph
Description: Sepia-toned albumen print photo mounted on tan paperboard. Photographer: Shilling, S.F., (per imprinting in brown ink along the bottom margin of the mounting). The mounting has an ornamental border imprinted in red ink to highlight the image. The mounting has broken corner points, foxing, spotting, pencilled inscriptions, and an old green cataloging label glued to the upper left corner. The image is damaged by fading, deteriorating emulsion, and identifying numerals written upon it in white ink.
Size: L-5 x W-9 in.
History of Object: Students posed outside of school entrance. A handful of them are identified on a white, typewritten sheet of paper attached to the verso.
Acquired from: Mrs. Engel
Date: 8/23/97
Pre-1971 donation, old cat. #66.
