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Digital ID: KNU-1987PH2-2894
Woodford County, Kentucky. Kentucky Female Orphan School: Many girls at the Kentucky Female Orphan School, Midway, Ky. are daughters of Southern Railway men. In the background are several original buildings of the school which opened in 1849.
Date: 1900 - 1954
Creator: Dunn, C. Frank, 1883-1954
Collection Guide: C. Frank Dunn Photographs Collection, 1900-1954, bulk 1920-1940. Contributing Institution: Kentucky Historical Society
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Thought this picture might be useful in the project on Female Orphan School to examine issues of class and race in the models of Kentucky womanhood projected from the school administrators for advertising purposes and/or fundraising. The role of the railroad and coal industries in the school could be examined also.
Notes from KDL site: Woodford County, Kentucky. Kentucky Female Orphan School: Many girls at the Kentucky Female Orphan School, Midway, Ky. are daughters of Southern Railway men. In the background are several original buildings of the school which opened in 1849. Date: 1900 - 1954.