U.S. School Clothes: Anona Elementary School (Florida)


Figure 1.--Here four Anona Elementary First graders are photographed with Chief Johnny Big Tree who ws visiting the school. The press caption read, "Anona pupils with Indian chief: Gathered around Chief Johnny Big Tree are Anona Elementary School First Graders (from left): Brett Meares, Alan lalrscey, Gary McSweany and Raoul Rey." The boys wear both T-shirts and collared shirts and short and long pants. Short pants were more common in the South and with younger boys. And we begin ti see more boys weaing sneaters to school in the 1960s. note the short hair cuts. The photograph was dated Sepotember 30, 1964.

The Anona Elementary School is located in Largo, Florida, a city near Tampa on the Gulf of Mexico coast. Anona is one of the older public schools in Florida, founded in 1874. The southern states, unlike the northern states did not begin to build a public school system before the Civil War (1861-65). This only began after the War in the Reconstruction period. Lost Cause historians accused Reconstruction legislatures of being fiscally irresponsible. One of the reasons for higher state spending was the cost of building and maintaining public schools. Here we have a group of Anona 1st graders (6 year old) with a Native American chief, Chief Johnny Big Tree, in 1964. We are not sure what the ocassion was. The boys wear both T-shirts and collared shirts and short and long pants. Short pants were more common in the South and with younger boys. And we begin ti see more boys weaing sneaters to school in the 1960s. Notice how one boy has a shirt buttoned at the collar. We suspect tht mother buttoned it in the jorning and he just left it that way. Also note the short hair cuts.









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