Figure 1.--Here we have a postcard back portrait of a group at the Reeves School on May 19, 1909. We do not know where the school was locatred, but Louisiana is one possibility. The group dies not seem to be a class, there seems to be too wide an age range of the children for it to be a single grade class. Then again in rural and small tiwbn schools, some farm boys who did not attend as regularly as city boys (because they were needed on the farm) took longer to compete their primary years.

Here we have a postcard back portrait of a group at the Reeves School on May 19, 1909. We do not know where the school was locatred, but Louisiana is one possibility. The group dies not seem to be a class, there seems to be too wide an age range of the children for it to be a single grade class. Then again in rural and small tiwbn schools, some farm boys who did not attend as regularly as city boys (because they were needed on the farm) took longer to compete their primary years. The brick building in the backgriound does not look like a small one or two room school. Then again the presence of one teacher in the center does suggest that we are looking at a single class. Perhaps some readers may have thoughts on this. There is certainly a great interest in baseball here, but no baseball caps yet. And we see a great school pooch, something not all that common in these school portraits. We see a variety of caps, including sailor caps. The flat cap is not yet dominant. Many of the boys are wearing blouses. We also see jackets and sweaters. Two of the boys, probably more, were barefoot. This further suggests a southern school. The girls wear a variety of dresses. We only see two pinafore. We also do not see many hair bows, a fashion that was becoming very popular.

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