The Village School by Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
name: label: maker
content: Burrow-Giles Lith. Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Colored print of a 19th Century schoolroom scene. The schoolmaster is asleep at his desk while the students are engaged in a variety of misdeeds: fighting with each other, turning the clock ahead, drawing a caricature of the teacher, etc.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The lithograph was produced circa 1870 by Burrow-Giles Lithography Company in New York. The company is most noted as the defendant in a noted 1874 Supreme Court case, <i>Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company v. Napoleon Sarony</i>, concerning photographic copyright..
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: Communication, newspapers
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Furnishings
label: Subject
content: Comic prints
label: Subject
content: Architecture, Educational Buildings
label: Subject
content: Clocks
label: Subject
content: Holidays and Celebrations, general
label: Subject
content: Games
label: Subject
content: Heating
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2423
label: catalog number
content: 60.2423
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chromolithograph
label: Object Type
content: Chromolithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 11 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 46.99 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 20 in; 33.02 cm x 50.8 cm