Students using large type text Boston public school in sight-saving classroom

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2004.134.47.28

Description: Black-and-white glossy; students are using large type text that is placed in front of them on their sightly risen desk; the desk has metal legs and the chairs are metal but the top of the desk is wood; in the background, there is a teacher at her desk facing the students, and behind her are blackboards with a poster of a map of United States and a typewriter; on the right side, there is partial blackboard with posters and chalk writing on it; the American flag is hanging over the radio and record player on the left side and there is a telephone on the right side in the background; there are pictures in picture frames along the window and the blackboards in the background; there are two window on the left side of the photo; and there are two overhead lights over the students. On the back, stamped in black ink "11,165A A In 150" and blue ink "Please return to Miss Regina L. Driscoll, Roxbury Memorial High-Bays, Warren Street, Roxbury 21, Massachusetts." Miss Regina L. Driscoll was in charge of conservation of eye-sight class.

Medium: Photographic Paper

Print Size: 8" (h) x 10" (w)

History/Provenance: The first sight-saving classroom organized in Boston, Massachusetts held at Boston public schools.

Credit Line: (see provenance)