U.S. School Clothes: P.S. 41 (Unknown state, 1910-11)


Figure 1.- This was P.S. 41 which we can clearly see on the board propped up inthe center, only we do not know what the city was. We can see the school building in the background and it looks like a big city school, we just do not know what city. We have found a lot of P.S. schools in New York City, but New York was not the only city using P.S. designations for schools. So we are left not know just where this was. Confusingly we can also see 'No. 15' written on the board. We have no idea what that means, perhapd the room number. The names of the children are written on the back along with 'Class of 1910-1911". Click on the image to see the their names.

This was P.S. 41 which we can clearly see on the board propped up inthe center, only we do not know what the city was. We can see the school building in the background and it looks like a big city school, we just do not know what city. We have found a lot of P.S. schools in New York City, but New York was not the only city using P.S. designations for schools. So we are left not know just where this was. Confusingly we can also see 'No. 15' written on the board. We have no idea what that means, perhapd the room number. The names of the children are written on the back along with 'Class of 1910-1911". We take that to mean the school year when the photograph was taken. The children look to be about 9 years old. Many of the girls have large hair bows. Several boys wear suits. It is a little difficult to tell what the other boys are earing, but we see blouses and sweaters. All the boys wear knickers and long stockings. It is intresting how fast knickers replaced knee pants. Knee panys had been worn for several decades, but were lrhely replaced in only a couple years. Only one boy has a floppy bow. This would have been much more common a decade earlier. As far as we can tell almost all of the boys wear high-top lace-up shoes.







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