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Additional authors

1. Schauffler, Alfred Theodore, 1839-1915

Description

1. 205 photographic prints on 60 leaves : albumen, b&w; 26 x 34 cm. or smaller on leaves 37 x 48 cm.

Summary

1. Views of facilities, activities, and students of the New York School system: activities of very young children: standing around a Christmas tree, singing around piano, playing blocks and other games, playing in in-door sandbox, painting and drawing, planting a garden; home-making classes: cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, serving a meal, child care and first aid, and sewing; grammar school children in gym or exercising in class rooms, including views demonstrating gym apparatus, games, calisthenics, use of classroom desks as gym aparatuses and including views of rooftop playground, a view of children swimiming, and a view of a playground at Hester and Essex streets; boys in woodworking class, including one view with woman teacher (?), and boys sharpening tools, and examples of their work; boys and girls in science classes: a field trip to the [American Museum of Natural History], botany class using microsopes, physics and chemistry labs, items in specimen jars, human and other mounted skeletons; Art classes, both Grammar and high school, including drawing, clay modelling, and views of of students sketching in Central Park, views of drawings and silhouettes, each signed by the student who made it, children in design class and examples of their work; adults in drawing and design classes and making baskets; examples of work including woodworking, sewing, knitting, paper flowers, millenry, embroidery, dollmaking, brush work, applied design, toy making, venetian ironwork, and cane weaving.

Subject

1. dnr Higinbotham, William Alfred,
2. American Museum of Natural History
3. New York (N.Y.). Board of Education
4. Exposition universelle (1900 : Paris, France)
5. Art education
6. Basket making
7. Boys > Clothing and dress
8. Calisthenics
9. Children
10. Children cooking
11. Children exercising
12. Children drawing & painting
13. Children sculpting
14. Children sewing
15. Children singing
16. Children's pictures
17. Christmas trees
18. Classrooms
19. Drawing
20. Education > New York > New York
21. Gardening
22. Girls > Clothing and dress
23. Gymnastics
24. Gymnasiums
25. Home economics
26. Kindergarten
27. Modelling (Sculpture)
28. Physical education
29. Playgrounds
30. School excursions
31. Science
32. Skeletons
33. Students
34. Swimming
35. Tools
36. Woodworking
37. Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
38. Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
39. New York (N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Photographic prints.
2. Silver gelatin prints.

Call number

1. MFY 93-6282

Note

1. Leaves were removed from three half-leather bound albums compiled under the direction of Alfred Schauffler, superintendant of Music and Art of the New York City Schools, who organized New York City's education exhibit at the Exposition Universelle de 1900 in Paris. The albums may or may not have been exhibited there.
2. Each leaf is heavy stock, covered with gray paper and was mounted in album using linen tape. Each leaf has 1 - 4 photographs on it.

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Biography (note)

1. Alfred T. Schauffler was born in Constantinope to missionary parents in 1839. Attended Williams College. Began teaching in New York Public Schools, 1871; city superintendent in 1894; District superintendent of Borough of the Bronx when Greater New York Charter adopted; in 1905 transferred to supervison of 14th and 18th districts. In charge of the New York Public Schools exhibit at the Exposition Universelle International de 1900 in Paris. Died 1915. cf.-- NYT Obit., June 13, 1915, II, 15, 5. and information supplied by donor, see accession file.

Provenance (note)

1. Gift of William Alfred Higinbotham, 1982.

Exhibitions (note)

1. Exhibited in "New Acquisitions, Photographs," 1985.

Title

1. Photographs of the New York city schools [graphic].

Imprint

1. ca. 1900

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.

Biography

1. Alfred T. Schauffler was born in Constantinope to missionary parents in 1839. Attended Williams College. Began teaching in New York Public Schools, 1871; city superintendent in 1894; District superintendent of Borough of the Bronx when Greater New York Charter adopted; in 1905 transferred to supervison of 14th and 18th districts. In charge of the New York Public Schools exhibit at the Exposition Universelle International de 1900 in Paris. Died 1915. cf.-- NYT Obit., June 13, 1915, II, 15, 5. and information supplied by donor, see accession file.

Provenance

1. Gift of William Alfred Higinbotham, 1982.

Exhibitions

1. Exhibited in "New Acquisitions, Photographs," 1985.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Schauffler, Alfred Theodore, 1839-1915, originator.

Research call number

1. MFY 93-6282