Individual Czech Schools--Smiricích School (1897)



Figure 1.--We see the a class of the Smiricích School in 1897. Most of the boys wear suits. A few boys wear shirts and a few have bows. Most of the suits are knee pants suits. A few boys have long pants. Some boys are barefoot. Several boys have stripped long stockings. Many but not all boys have close-cropped hair. The girls wear different styles of dresses. Put your cursor on the image to see the rest of the class.

We see the a class of the Smiricích School in 1897. Most of the boys wear suits. A few boys wear shirts and a few have bows. Most of the suits are knee pants suits. A few boys have long pants. Some boys are barefoot. Several boys have stripped long stockings. Many but not all boys have close-cropped hair. The girls wear different styles of dresses. A reader writes, "When looking at old pictures like this one I am actually kind of amazed that nobody ever told the kids 'Smile, you are on Candid Camera!" They all look so gloomy. Nowadays they laugh too much when being photographed or filmed. That's not right either. But a little smile would be nice. They don't need to show their teeth. I think at that time taking pictures was a serious matter." Tis isan interesting point. We see a lot of portaits like this. Of course, people couldn't smile in really old photographs, because exposure times were so long, people couldn't hold smiles. Perhaps this became a kind of tradition. Mot all 1890s photographs were as serious as this. We wonder if the strict descipline at schools might also be a factor.








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