Figure 1.-- Here we have a photograph from the Scroggin School which looks to be a rural school located in Logan Co. Illinois. The source believes that the photograph was taken about 1905, perhaps a little later. This is possible, but we believe that it may have been taken a few years later. The children are wearing different style clothing. Some boys wear blouses and knee pants. Others wear overalls. Click on the image for an enlarged detail.

Here we have a photograph from the Scroggin School which looks to be a rural school located in Logan Co. Illinois. The source believes that the photograph was taken about 1905, perhaps a little later. This is possible, but we believe that it may have been taken a few years later. The children are wearing different style clothing. Some boys wear blouses and kneepants. Others wear overalls. We note five boys wearing overalls. They look to be mostly the older boys. We are trying to determine just when overalls became standard for school wear in rural areas. Other impages we have found show overalls being worn beginning about 1908-09 which is why we are unsure about the date here. If it rally was taken in 1905, it is the earliest image we have archived showing overalls being commonly worn. You can see from the clothing here that this was a transitional period. With some children wearing blouses and kneepants common in the 1900s and others wearing overalls common in the 1910s. Most of the boys are barefoot, but the girls wear long stocings and shoes. One boy seems to have hurt his foot and has wrapped it in a cloth. Note American boys did not have the book bags like European children. One boy has it books tied up with a belt, a very common way of carrying books home.

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