Research Catalog

Title

Photographs of the New York city schools [graphic].

Publication

ca. 1900

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Schauffler, Alfred Theodore, 1839-1915

Description

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

Summary

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.

Subjects

• Children sewing
• Children cooking
• Children sculpting
• American Museum of Natural History
• School excursions
• Gardening
• Basket making
• Education > New York > New York
• Calisthenics
• Gymnastics
• Children exercising
• Art education
• Children's pictures
• Photographic prints
• Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
• Children drawing & painting
• Higinbotham, William Alfred,
• Girls > Clothing and dress
• Gymnasiums
• Skeletons
• Modelling (Sculpture)
• Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
• Students
• Children
• Woodworking
• Home economics
• Swimming
• Science
• Christmas trees
• Silver gelatin prints
• Playgrounds
• Exposition universelle (1900 : Paris, France)
• Kindergarten
• New York (N.Y.) > Board of Education
• Tools
• Classrooms
• Physical education
• Boys > Clothing and dress
• Drawing
• Children singing

Genre/Form

• Photographic prints.
• Silver gelatin prints.

Note

• 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.
• 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)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• 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)

• Gift of William Alfred Higinbotham, 1982.

Exhibitions (note)

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

Call Number

MFY 93-6282

OCLC

NYPG93-F238

Title

Photographs of the New York city schools [graphic].

Imprint

ca. 1900

Restricted Access

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

Biography

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

Gift of William Alfred Higinbotham, 1982.

Exhibitions

Exhibited in "New Acquisitions, Photographs," 1985.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Schauffler, Alfred Theodore, 1839-1915, originator.

Research Call Number

MFY 93-6282