Prague School (Prague, Nebraska)


Figure 1.-- The portrait was probably taken about 1895 based on the style of the children's clothes and the cabinet mount style. Some boys wear suits while others just shorts and blouses. Many of the boys wear long pants. We see both suspenders and button-on outfits. In the city knee pants wre more common, but long pants persisted longer in rural areas. The fact that many of the children may have been Czech immigrants children. The girls wear colorful dresses, one with a touch of sailor styling.

The school in this cabinet card here is unidentified, but we believe was located in Prague, Nebraska. Notice the very youthful teacher. The children here are a group of about 20 children who look about the same age, perhaps 10-11 years old. This means there were probably a single grade class (or perhaps two grades together) group and thus about a hundred children at the school. That and the building at the background means that it was not a rural one or two room school, but a school in the town. This seems, however, rather a large school for a very small town. Presumably there were aot of farms near town. And as the photographer, F.H. Svoboda, was located in Prague, Nebraska, we assume that was where the school was located. It thus was probably callecd the Prague School. The photographer's name and the name of the school suggests that there were a number of Czech immigrants in the town. It is a very small town in eastern, Nebraska. The towns claim to fame is, kolache, a popular Czech/Slovak pastry. The portrait was probably taken about 1895 based on the style of the children's clothes and the cabinet mount style. Some boys wear suits while others just shorts and blouses. Many of the boys wear long pants. We see both suspenders and button-on outfits. In the city knee pants wre more common, but long pants persisted longer in rural areas. A few of the children are barefoot, the rest wear black long stockings. The fact that many of the children may have been Czech immigrants children. The girls wear colorful dresses, one with a touch of sailor styling. Notice that some of the boys have close-cropped hair. That looks mire European than American. We suspect that this may be an indicator of how recently they arrived in America.






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