In a classroom, children paint a scenery on a makeshift structure. One child sits on the floor and tries on shoes. Another child sweeps from inside the structure. The State Normal School, the created a the Training Department in 1869, in an effort to provide student teachers with practical classroom experience working with children from kindergarten to eighth grade. This classroom scene is a typical representation of children at play in the kindergarten and primary school departments of the Normal School. Set design? Or playing house? This possibly takes place at the Training School of the Normal School. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
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