1.
Outdoor class in botany, Washington, DC, ca. 1899. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


2.
Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., ca. 1898 – 11 students in uniform playing guitars, banjos, mandolins, and cello. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


3.
Louis Firetail (Sioux, Crow Creek), wearing tribal clothing, giving a presentation in an American history class, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1899-1900. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


4.
A class in dressmaking, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1899. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


5.
Classroom scenes in Washington, D.C. public schools – outdoor exercise with rods – 3rd Division, ca. 1899. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


6.
History class at the Tuskegee Institute. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


7.
Students of 8th Division school using rulers, yardsticks, and measuring tape in school yard, Washington, DC, ca. 1899. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


8.
School children learning a dance in a school yard, Washington, DC, 1899. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston

9.
Schoolgirls doing calisthenics. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


10.
Elementary school class on Native American Culture. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


11.
Female students exercising with dumbbells, Western High School, Washington, DC, 1899. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


12.
Girls in a science laboratory at Eastern High School, Washington, DC, 1899. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


13.
Thanksgiving Day lesson at Whittier, 1899-1900. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


14.
6 girls in art class, drawing at easels, Eastern High School, Washington, DC, 1899. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


15.
African American schoolgirls with teacher, learning to cook on a wood stove in classroom, 1899. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston


16.
Isadora Duncan’s dance students, early 1900s. Photo: Frances Benjamin Johnston

and not one teacher was punched, threatened, or thrown into a wall by a student that day.....

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kids learning vocational skills at a machine shop - 1899