Group portrait, Manual Labor School

ID: 1378 ~ Source: Stabler family papers, Collection 27, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ~ Date: 1904
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Group portrait, Manual Labor School

Group portrait of boys from the Baltimore Manual Labor School sitting on front steps. In second row, Hester Ella Stabler is holding her nephew, Edmund Stabler Freeland.

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By Tucker Foltz & Sarah Huston
The Baltimore Manual Labor School for indigent boys, also known as the Arbutus Farm School, was established in 1841. The school emerged from of a larger social movement developing in urban Victorian society at the time. Amidst the energetic fervor…