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Title
Training school children at play
Contributor
Gordon, John C. (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution
San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
John C. Gordon Photographic Collection
Rights Information
For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description
Girls from the Training School sit outdoors and play. Most girls sit at tables while one girl sits on the sidewalk.
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.
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.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier
islandora:78_1511
filename: jcg_normal_school_031
islandora: 78_1511
Language
English
Subject
Girls
Play (Recreation)
San Jose State Normal School
Universities and colleges
Place
San Jose
California

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