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Here we do not know the name of the school, but we have a photograph of boys learning to play tennis. The boys are all quite formally dressed with white shirts and ties, dark knickers, and long black stockings. They all wave tennis rackets in their hands. We don't know the exact location except that the photo, taken in 1924, was somewhere in Indiana--probably Indianpolis. Tennis was a kind of country club sport at the time. This and the fact that the boys all have rackets suggests to us that this is a private school. The rural setting suggests that it was a boarding school. One interesting aspect of this photograph is that the boys so formally dressed (white shirts, ties, knickers, and long stockings). It looks rather like old-fashioned drill. Surely boys would not actually play tennis in such formal clothes. Maybe they are dressed for class, and this is just a group being introduced to tennis at the beginning of a term?
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