Individual Swiss School: Eicheliacker School

Figure 1.--This photo was taken October 28, 1950 in Winterthur, Switzerland. It is located in the Zurich canton, but is a large enough town to have several schools. This particular school is called the Eicheliacker School. The class shown here are Kindergarteners or first graders, about 5-6 years old. Notice the toys on the floor, dolls and a small dog. This probably means that it was a Kindergarten.

This photo was taken October 28, 1950 in Winterthur, Switzerland. It is located in the Zurich canton, but is a large enough town to have several schools. This particular school is called the Eicheliacker School. The class shown here are Kindergarteners or first graders, about 5-6 years old. Notice the toys on the floor, dolls and a small dog. This probably means that it was a Kindergarten. The boys wear short trousers with long cotton stockings, mostly beige or light brown in color. Notice the hose supporter clasps on the stockings of the boy kneeling at the extreme right. The garter buttons are close together on both legs, which means that he is wearing supporters with double pendants similar to those worn by American children but less common in Europe. The teacher standing at the back to the left is Frau Weber. Some of the girls are wearing pinafores. One boy in the third row (five children from the right) seems to be wearing a pinafore as well. This also suggests that it is a Kindergarten. (In the French cantons it was more common for boys to wear pinafores.) This could be a girl with short hair, but I think it is a boy. Notice his pullover sweater with a chest pattern underneath. Or, possibly, he is wearing bib shorts like the boy in the first row (third from the left). The boy with the hose supporters showing at the right wears suspenders with his short pants and a sweater tucked into them.

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