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The photo dealer believes this cabiner card portrait is a SAS Catholic school in Wisconsin. We are not sure waht SAS means, but it os clarly a Catholic school. What we care not sure aout is the ocassion. The children are too old for First Communiion. But wse re not sure if this is a Confirmation photograph or a graduation portrait. Many Catholic schools were 8 year progrms. (There were many Catholic primary schools, but very few Catholic scondary school.) The children look to be about 13 years old. This is the approximate age for both confirmation and grduation. The boys all wear similar Norfolk knicker suits in the same color. The girls all wear junior wessding dresses like First Communion dresses. They are pictured with a priest and nuns at the back in front of their brick school. The portrait is undated, but looks like the 1910s A reader writes, "Like HBC, at first I thought it was a first communion class but the boys appear a bit too old for that. I guess it is some sort of graduation class, first communion at an older age, or confirmation. I do notice that some of the boy's appear to be wearing brand new suits bought a bit large for them and all are wearing Norfolk styled knicker suits with long black stockings. The belt on the jacket is the giveaway. The boy in the front row our left his right appears to be wearing a hand-me-down suit as it is way too large and seems worn."
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