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Strange Classroom

December 2023
1min read

The photograph on pages 66-67 of your February issue purportedly shows a teacher instructing her pupils in multiplication “at a school in Nebraska in 1895.” It’s a mighty strange-looking classroom. I’d wager it was actually a photographer’s studio. I wonder if the Nebraska State Historical Society has any more information on the provenance of the photograph.

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