Tremont Temple, Boston

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Title

Tremont Temple, Boston

Subject

Amos Bronson Alcott began his Temple School here

Description

Tremont Temple, Boston. This is where Alcott's Temple School opened September 22, 1834. Regarded as the most famous of his educational experiments, Temple School allowed Alcott to put his progressive theories and teaching principles into practice.

Two fellow Transcendentalists Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Margaret Fuller were hired as assistants.

Elizabeth Peabody published the framework for Temple School in her book Record of a School in 1835, before opening the first kindergarten in the United States.

A. Bronson Alcott wrote about the time at Temple School in a pair of volumes titled Conversations With Children on the Gospels in 1836.

Creator

Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection

Publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Date

c1900.

Contributor

Detroit Publishing Company

Rights

No known restrictions on publication.

Format

Dry plate negatives.

Original Format

Dry plate negatives.

Physical Dimensions

Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.