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Jamaica Training School

Collection: This image is from the Joan Kindler Photographs of Postcards Collection and is depicted in print and digital image.; Image is part of the Joan Kindler Photographs of Postcards Collection
Date: ca. 1905; 1905 Material: gelatin silver print Dimension: 5 x 7 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: Joan Kindler Identifier: aql:14321 jkc-000037 jkc-000037.tif

Description: Also known as the Jamaica Normal School, (because it trained teachers in the standards, or norms, of teaching,) the school was opened in 1897 and closed in 1933. Hillcrest High School was built on the same site in 1974, a few years after the building pictured was demolished.; hand written on back of print: #22716 Courtesy Joan Kindler

Collection : aql:14208

Creator : Joan Kindler

Date : ca. 1905; 1905

Summary/Description : Also known as the Jamaica Normal School, (because it trained teachers in the standards, or norms, of teaching,) the school was opened in 1897 and closed in 1933. Hillcrest High School was built on the same site in 1974, a few years after the building pictured was demolished.; hand written on back of print: #22716 Courtesy Joan Kindler

Subject : Jamaica Training School (New York, N.Y.); School buildings

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : Parsons Boulevard at Hillside Avenue, Jamaica, NY Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : black and white print; digital image

Format : gelatin silver print; 5 x 7 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:14321 jkc-000037 jkc-000037.tif

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Jamaica Training School (New York, N.Y.); School buildings
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