Item #16190 Original Photograph of Female Students Studying Electricity 1905. Women in Sciences, Education.

Original Photograph of Female Students Studying Electricity 1905

Women in Sciences, [Education]

Original Photo

(Women's Education). [Photograph]: High School Girls Conducting Electricity Experiments, 1905. Large sepia press photo. 8.5" x 7". Handwritten note on verso states the photograph is for an article on public schools. Creasing on upper right and left hand corners, tiny tears and nicks along the top and bottom of the image. Very good condition overall. Approximately eighteen girls conducting experiments on electricity using conducting boxes at an unspecified public high school in New York. They sit on tall stools around long tables, wearing expressions that vary from concentration to vexation. High school gave girls the opportunity to advance beyond a rudimentary education and become versed in subjects such as history, their rights as citizens, and advanced science. The US was the first nation to provide the general public with secondary education, and in 1900 there were 6,000 public schools. Only a fraction of those, however, were open to women. These girls were part of the first generation taught science, a right denied to their mothers and grandmothers.

Item #16190

Price: $125.00