Kindergarten / Pisa Institute, circa 1890
- Containers:
- Box 7, Image RL.11785-P-0502
- Physical description:
- 24 3/4 x 32 1/4 cm; albumen; card mount
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Title is handwritten on back. Image is of a large group of female children flanked by one man and six women in secular clothing, standing in front of building with Italian-style doors and outer wall.
- Biographical / historical:
- There were religious and secular schools in Pisa, Italy founded in the 18th and 19th centuries for female orphans and for poor female children; the secular Leopoldine schools were especially centered on the education of women to combat poverty. Progressive and innovative Italian educational programs were a subject of interest to educators in other countries.
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