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schools United States -- individual schools rural Mississippi 1909
Individual U.S. School: Unidentitfied Rural School (Mississippi, 1909)
Figure 1.-- This cabinet card portrait shows the 6th grade class at the Gilbert Stuart Grammar School in Boston during 1909. The big city schools like Boston would show the most popular syles at the time. The 6th grade maramns children 11-12 years of age. It was a very large class, nearly 50 children. We wonder if it might be two classes. There are two, pperhaps three, adults at the back, although the man may be the principal. One of the children may be African American. The boys all wear suits, except for two boys wearing sweaters. We think the boys are all wearing knickers, although this is difficult to tell becuse the way the front row boys are posed kneeling down. The only boy standing is defintely wearing knickers. The timr 1908-09 is when American boys shifted from knee pants to knickers. This occurred very rapidly given how long that knee pants were worn by American boys. Click on the image for another view.
This cabinet card portrait shows the 6th grade class at the Gilbert Stuart Grammar School in Boston during 1909. The big city schools like Boston would show the most popular syles at the time. The 6th grade maramns children 11-12 years of age. It was a very large class, nearly 50 children. We wonder if it might be two classes. There are two, pperhaps three, adults at the back, although the man may be the principal. One of the children may be African American. The boys all wear suits, except for two boys wearing sweaters. We do not see swaters commomly in the 19th century, but by the late-1900s decade, the sweather appears to be a popular item. The girls seem to be wearing dresses, but we are not sure about the types. We note one sailor dress. Several girls also wear sweaters. Many of the girls wear coats and have hair bows, many positioned at the back of their heads. Several boys are holding their flat caps. We see mostly double-breasted jackets, but there are slso single breasted jackets. We think the boys are all wearing knickers, although this is difficult to tell becuse the way the front row boys are posed kneeling down. The only boy standing is defintely wearing knickers. The timr 1908-09 is when American boys shifted from knee pants to knickers. This occurred very rapidly given how long that knee pants were worn by American boys.
