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

Augustine H. Folsom

 Boston public school, evening drawing school. Warren Avenue 

3rd year pupils drawing from life models, ca. 1890

  

 Charlestown High School, girls exercising on bars against the wall, 1899

  

 Girls High School, studio. Pupils of fourth year class drawing from casts, 1893

  

 Henry L. Pierce School, Dorchester. A group of girls in dresses 

made by themselves, standing in front of school, ca. 1892-93

  

Henry L. Pierce School, home economics class, 1892-93

 

Source: Boston Public Library

Augustine H. Folsom

Augustine H. Folsom, also know professionally as A. H. Folsom, was a commercial photographer based in Roxbury, listed in the City Directory from 1879-1903 at 48 Alleghany St. He was also the owner of a carpet factory.

The Boston Public Library holds many of Folsom's photographs taken in the Roxbury neighborhood, as well as his photographs documenting the Boston Public School System from 1890-1893, some of which were exhibited at the 1900 Paris Expo.

 Appleton Street kindergarten, 1892-93

  

Everett School - interior - 3rd class, 2nd division, 1892-93

  

 Hyde School, kindergarten, 1892-93

  

 Primary school, class I, Prince District,1892

  

Winchell School, Wells primary, 3rd class, room 7, ca. 1890

 
Source: Boston Public Library