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Portrays inmates at the Pennsylvania Industrial School, a reformatory in Huntingdon. Documents vocational education in barbering, farming, wood working, dairying, metal working, blacksmithing, horse showing, type setting, weaving, cooking, shop and other skills. Includes views of dormitory and dun...
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1936-1941
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Portrays inmates at the Pennsylvania Industrial School, a reformatory in Huntingdon. Documents vocational education in barbering, farming, wood working, dairying, metal working, blacksmithing, horse showing, type setting, weaving, cooking, shop and other skills. Includes views of dormitory and dungeon. Also depicts parent's day activities including exhibitions, picnics, and music by the band. Shows military company training on the grounds. Documents new facility built for the boys in White Hall, Pa. Shows cell blocks, rooms, aht kitchen, laundry, barbershop, and retreat ceremonies. Includes view of guardhouse. These subject entries for the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photo morgue are primarily for Places (buildings, parks, streets, etc.), Things (Bicycles, Bison, Blind Persons [just sampling the B's]), Events (Democratic National Convention 1936, Flourtown Fair, Harvest Week) and Social Constructs (Home Economics, City Planning, Eating & Drinking, etc.). Each of these subjects became a MARC record which included a call number. In the case of these records, the call numbers are the actual folder numbers for the materials referenced. Therefore, these subject headings are really also an index for this section of the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photograph morgue. [The name section of the Philadelphia Record photo morgue represents individuals, A-Z, and |
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Part of the Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue Collection; for general information, see collection record. |
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105 photoprints : silver gelatin |