Changing Pictures of Childhood: The Lyman School – School Portraits

Some of the photographs in this exhibit appeared in promotional materials for the school.

• What does the school want you to think overall about the boys and their lives at the school?
• In each of the activities depicted in this group of photographs, what is the school saying about how it treats its students?

 

Go to the next page in the exhibit: Backgrounds and Narrative Portraits of Boys.

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Exhibit Navigation for “Changing Pictures of Childhood: A Comparative History of Child Welfare in Westborough”:

• • Introduction
  • Pauper Apprenticeship – Childhood in Early America
    • Stephen Pratt
    • Patience Miller
  • Lyman School for Boys – Childhood in the Nineteenth Century
    • Work
    • Play
    • School Portraits
    • Backgrounds and Narrative Portraits of Boys
    • Institutional Life
    • Image and Reality at the Lyman School
    • Movie, 1946