Augustine H. Folsom

Clay modelling. Yeoman-street Primary School, Dearborn District, 1892

  

Grammar school, class VI. George Putnam District, 1892

 

Middle class studying, Roxbury High School, 1892

 

Mr. Larssen's sloyd room, Appleton Street. First view, 1892

[Sloyd is a handcraft-based education system invented in Finland.]

 

Paper cutting and pasting. Yeoman-street 

Primary School, Dearborn District, 1892

 

Source: Boston Public Library

Augustine H. Folsom

 Gov. Gardner House, Dorchester, Stoughton St

  

 Old Abraham French House, "Peter Parley's" 

old house, Parley Vale, Jamaica Plain

  

 Old Calvin B. Farmer House, corner of Pynchon and Roxbury Sts

  

 Old Dunbar House, corner of Cliff and Washington Sts, ca. 1870

  

Old Williams Place, Elm Hill, Roxbury, ca. 1870

 

Source: Boston Public Library

Horace Mann School for the Deaf

These photos were taken by Augustine H. Folsom in 1892.

 Class in type-setting

  

 Conversation and writing

   

 Earliest lesson in speech

  

 Language lesson in a primary class

  

 Reading lesson in a grammar class

  

 

 The class in dress-making

 

 The whole school

 

Source: Boston Public Library