Figure 1.--This cabinet card portrait was taken at Boys' High School. It is a cabinet card portrait without any studio information. So we don't know where the school was located. We suspect it was some place in the northeast where there were some single gender public high schools. It may be Boys High School in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It appears to be best lknown such school. Boy schools seem more common than girl schools. Most American high schools were coed, but there were a few single gender schools which was the general pattern in Europe at the time. The portrait we have is the 1891 graduating class. The boys all wear suits, many with bowler hats. One boy has a boater. We see lots of vests. There are ties with big knots, but other varied neckwar.. Almost all of the boys we see wear long pants suits. There is one younger boy wearing knee pants and long stockings. We are guessing he is a prodigy that skipped a couple years. Put your cursor on the image to see the rest of the class.

This cabinet card portrait was taken at Boys' High School. It is a cabinet card portrait without any studio information. So we don't know where the school was located. We suspect it was some place in the northeast where there were some single gender public high schools. It may be Boys High School in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It appears to be best lknown such school. Boy schools seem more common than girl schools. Most American high schools were coed, but there were a few single gender schools which was the general pattern in Europe at the time. The portrait we have is the 1891 graduating class. The boys all wear suits, many with bowler hats. We are not sure why so many boys arec wearing bowlers. wesuspectt that many of these boys were considering business careers. One boy has a boater. We see lots of vests. There are ties with big knots, but other varied neckwear. Almost all of the boys we see wear long pants suits. There is one younger boy wearing knee pants and long stockings. We are guessing he is a prodigy that skipped a couple years.

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