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school uniform: United States -- individual schools Thomas Jefferson Junior High School
Individual U.S. School: Thomas Jefferson Junior High School (Cleveland, Ohio)
Figure 1.--Thomas Jefferson was one of the great figues of the American Revolution. He was not a military figure, but the author of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia. He was one of the great spokesmen for American democracy and the third president of the United States. As a result like George Washington and John Adams, many schools are named after him. This is the Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in Clevelabnd, Ohio. The photograph is dated January 1929. It is of particular interest because we see the students in a open class room.
Thomas Jefferson was one of the great figues of the American Revolution. He was not a military figure, but the author of the Declaration of Independence and governor of Virginia. He was one of the great spokesmen for American democracy and the third president of the United States. As a result like George Washington and John Adams, many schools are named after him. This is the Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in Cleveland, Ohio. The photograph is dated January 1929. It is of particular interest because we see the students in a open class room, in this case room 310. The teacher and students are present, wonderful examples of what children were wearing in the late-1920's. One boy wears knickers and brightly patterned knee socks. but the others boys seen to be wearing long pants, although it is a liitle difficult to tell. The girls wear dresses and both long stockings and ankle socks. Notice the airplabne. That was undiubtedly a model of the 'Spirit of St Louis'--Charles Lindburg's famed plane that he flew across the Atlantic in 1927. A British reader writes, "Interesting photograph. I can see model making and studying plans. Quite revolutionary practical activity for the 1920s. Practical lessons involving group activity in the 1920 was experimental in Britain too. There was a head teacher in Bolton whose school curriculum was based around project work in the classroom. I was reading about him not all that long ago.
His school was popular with the community and it was a highly respected school in the town."
