U.S. School Clothes: Individual Schools (T-Z)
Figure 1.--I think the name of the school is the Tahoe School. It is a little difficult to read the placard. It looks to be an elementary (primary school). Presumably this is a school located in Nevadaa near Lake Tahoe. Elementary schools were normally for grades 1-6, but there was some variation among states. The building in the background seems to be a fairly modrn suburbam school, but we do not know where it was located. The placard in front suggests that the school was operating during the 1960s. I thank the placard says 1969, but I would have guessed a few years earlier.
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A good idea of fashion trends in America, as children at public schools did not wear uniforms, can be assessed by looking at what the children were wearing to school. Unfortunately many of the available images are not identified or are not dated, despite this, the images are very valuable views of children's fashion trends.
Here is a list of schools alphabetized by school name. Unfortunately for many images we have collected, we do not know the name of the school. We will add images of schools which are identified by name as well as schools about which we have obtained information. Readers are invited to contribute here information and images about their schools and school experiences. We certaonly hope if readers find their school listed here that they will provide us some information on it.
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I think the name of the school is the Tahoe School. It is a little difficult to read the placard. It looks to be an elementary (primary school). Presumably this is a school located in Nevadaa near Lake Tahoe. Elementary schools were normally for grades 1-6, but there was some variation among states. The building in the background seems to be a fairly modrn suburbam school, but we do not know where it was located. The placard in front suggests that the school was operating during the 1960s. The girls all wear dresses. The boys wear casual shorts and blue jeans or other long pants.
This photograph is a class at Tisbury School on Martha's Vineyard, an island off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. It seems to date from about 1919 or 1920. Some of the boys still wear knee pants with long stockings while others wear knickers (also with long stockings). One boy and only one boy seems to be wearing knee socks and bare knees with his above-the-knee knickers. The adult clothing looks a bit more modern too. Note the shorter length of the teacher's skirt on the left. A few of the boys wear tiny bow ties with their white shirts. Quite a variety of styles is represented here.
The Tod School appears to be an elementary (primary) school in Cleveland Ohio. We note the school in the ealy 20th century. We are not sure if it is still functioning.
Todd School (Illinois)
The Todd School was a private school located in Woodstock, Illinois. We know nothing about the school except that they were associated with Camp Tosebo at Manistee, Michigan. We are not sure when the school was founded, but know it was functioning in the 1950s. We note boys at the school sending camp postcards home.
We have found some images from the Tower Country Day School Wilmington. We assume that would be Deleware. We have heard the term "country day school" used before. This would have been a private school. The day school means that it was not a boarding schoiol. We are not positive, but we believe that the country mean that it was located outside of the city center and meant to convey that it had spacious grounds. Many exclsuive boarding schools were located in the country. The name "country day school" seems toi have been designed to have captured the image of a private school in bucolic settings, but without boaarding.
The Tumwater School was located in Thurston County, Washington. A 1904 school photograph shows the children sitting on the front porch of the wooden school building. The children wear a wide rabge of clothing. Most boys wear long pants. One boy wears kneepants. Several boys wear suits. One boy has a ruffled Fauntleroy collar. Anoyher boy wears kneepants overalls, a rather unusual style. Several boys are barefoot.
The Turkey Creek School appears to have been a small, one-room school, althouh we do not have a photograph of the actual school building. A portrait of the children of different ages in 1913, however, suggests that the school was quite small. The school was located in Montgomery Country, Texas. We have one portrait from 1913. Many of the children wear hats, givung us a good idea of hat styles at the time. The boys wear knickers. Several of the younger children are barefoot. The teacher pictured with the children looks to have been very strict.
The Tyrrel Elementary School was located in Port Arthur, Texas. We have an image of what we would guess to be a 3rd grade class in 1951. It looks like a typical American primary school in the 1950s. All the girls wear dresses and the boys all wear long pants. A few boys were barefoot which by the 1950s was becoming uncommon in American schools.
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This school is a mystery to us. It appears to be a school named the U.S. Scout School. It was located in Paris, France. The boys appear to be American boys wearing Scout uniforms. The pgotoigraph appears to have been taken in a shop of some kind, perhaps a carpentry class. They are wearing protective shop aprons. The photograph is not dated, but we would guess it was taken in the early 1910s before World War I (1914). Surely it was taken after the U.S. Boy Scout movement was founded which would men after 1909. We have no idea why there would be a U.S. Scout school in Paris or just what a scout school involved. Hopefully we will eventually find out more.
The Urk School here is an example of a one-room school at the turn of the 20th century. We know that it was located in the Middle School District which we believe is located in upstate New York. A source identified the image here as being taken in 1900. This may, however, have been an estimate rather than a precise date. Here we have a photograph of both the inside nd outside of the school.
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We have a school photograph dated 1906. The precise location of the school on Martha's Vineyard is uncertain. It may be Vineyard Haven. The boys wear knee pants with black long stockings. Notice that several boys are wearing military-style naval jackets, double breasted with what look like brass buttons, with matching knee pants. This appears to have been a popular style for gradeschool-age boys. These children are probably in the second or third
grade and would probably be about 8 years old. A girl (perhaps from the class) has used the photograph as a Christmas card at some later point in her life and has written on the photo, "Merry Xmas. To find the best girl in town."
This photograph of a primary school class was taken in 1907 at Vineyard Haven. The boys all wear knee pants with long stockings. Most of the stockings are the standard black color, but one boy wears lighter colored stockings (probably dark tan). Notice the Eton collars.
We are not sure about the name of the school here. We presume that it was the Visalia School as it was located in Visalia, California. Most early schools like this were simply named after the name of the town where they were located. It looks like an early public school. It is dated 1860, but we would take this as more of an assessment than a precise date. We might gues it was taken a little later, but the 1860s is a distinct possibility. Almost all th boys wear long pants. Only one boy wears kneepants. Several boys look to be wearing dresses. This is not impossible, but we suspect that these may be girls with short hair cuts.
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Wahiawa Elementary School was founded to educate the children of farmers who were brought in from California (September 1896). We don't have much informatioin about this, but apparently many were Japanese-Americans. We have a ckass portrait of the 6th grade in 1956. This would have been the oldest children at the school. The pupils don't wear a uniform. Many boys wear Hawaiian style shirts and go barefoot. We note boys going barefoot on the mainland during the early 50s, but it becoming quite rare by the mid-50s. Note that even in Hawaii that the boys are wearing long pants.
Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, was a rather prestigious boarding school for boys. It was founded to run much like a British private school. A HBC reader was a student in the 1940s. He recalls, "Latin was required as was algebra and geometry. We had to write 4-5-page essays every week. No radios were allowed and we had to be in bed by 10 PM. We always addressed the masters as 'Sir'. Sports were also de rigeur, especially soccer, football, and baseball." Like most such schools, WRA has since become coeducational.
A HBC reader has sent us a photograph from his elementary (primary) school in 1949. It is the 5th grade class at Westwood View Elemenary School. It was located in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. It is a good example of how elementary school children dressed at the time. The boys wear a variety of shirts and sweaters. Note the long-sleeved "T"-shirt. The boys wear long pants, including jeans. The girls all wear dresses or blouses and skirts. Some girls wear cardigan sweaters. Two girls wear saddle shoes. It must have been Scout day as some of the girls wear Girl Scout uniforms. I;m not sure why none of the boys wea Scout uniforms. At my school the Boy and Girl scouts (Cubs and Briwnies) wore their uniforms on the same day, always Thursday.
Here we sse a rural primary school. It is the Wood School in Bedford County, Tennessee. The schools usually taught children through grade 8. That would normally be children about 13 years old. Often at these schools there were older children because some of the boys took a little longer to get through the program because of demands on the farm. Some of the boys look like older teenagers. We have a portrait froim 1902. The boys came to school in shorts and pants. We only see a few blouses with with large collars, a popular style at the time. The boys wear long ants and knee pants. At a city school the children would have dressed more fashionably, most of the boys would have worn knee pants. Notice that none of the boys wear overalls.
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