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“Classroom in the Emerson School for Girls” is an image produced by the Boston photography firm of Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes. It shows a classroom of young women studying under the watch of an instructor. The image is notable in the history of photography because it is one of the earliest pictures taken on location rather than in a studio. It is also notable because it records one of the earliest schools in the United States dedicated exclusively to the education of young women.