Figure 1.--Here we see a good example of all the different headwear Englishb boys wore to school at mid-century. (For some reason only the biys are wearing headwear--probably because thegirls headwear was larger and would hide the boys behind them.) A coed school is unusual at this time. We see rounded-crown and flatish-ronded hats along with kepis, military styled peaked caps, and Scottsh glengaries, but no sailor caps, or the rounded top peaked caps that would become the iconic English school cap style. The CDV is undated. Most CDVs mostly appear in thev1860s, but there weree some in the late 50s. This might be one.

Until the CDV became popular (1860s) and we do not see large numbers of photographic images, but school portraots were not common. We see some individual portraits of boys in school outfits, but often that did not includxe the cap. School photgraphy began with the 1860s. This is because it necesitated the ability of making multiple copies from a single photograhs. This was not possible with Dags, Ambros, and tin-types. But it was possible with the albumen process which became popular (1860s). The albumen process involved negatives which could be used to create multiple prints. It would take some time for the tradition of school portraitsc to develop. The few school portraits we have found show a lot of boys still wearing hats abd not just caps. Here we see a variety of caps and hats. In one school portrait we see rounded-crown and flatish-ronded hats along with kepis, military styled peaked caps ns Scottsh glengaries, but no sailor caps, or the rounded top peaked caps that would become the iconic schooln cap style. Clearly there was no uniformity as to what type of headwear shoud be worn to school.